- Title
- Early-stage reciprocity in sustainable scientific collaboration
- Creator
- Wang, Wei; Ren, Jing; Alrashoud, Mubarak; Xia, Feng; Mao, Mengyi; Tolba, Amr
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/173777
- Identifier
- vital:14746
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2020.101041
- Identifier
- ISBN:1751-1577 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Scientific collaboration is of significant importance in tackling grand challenges and breeding innovations. Despite the increasing interest in investigating and promoting scientific collaborations, we know little about the collaboration sustainability as well as mechanisms behind it. In this paper, we set out to study the relationships between early-stage reciprocity and collaboration sustainability. By proposing and defining h-index reciprocity, we give a comprehensive statistical analysis on how reciprocity influences scientific collaboration sustainability, and find that scholars are not altruism and the key to sustainable collaboration is fairness. The unfair h-index reciprocity has an obvious negative impact on collaboration sustainability. The bigger the reciprocity difference, the less sustainable in collaboration. This work facilitates understanding sustainable collaborations and thus will benefit both individual scholar in optimizing collaboration strategies and the whole academic society in improving teamwork efficiency. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd.; The authors extend their appreciation to the International Scientific Partnership Program ISPP at King Saud University for funding this research work through ISPP-78. This work is partially supported by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation ( 2019M651115 ).
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Relation
- Journal of Informetrics Vol. 14, no. 3 (2020), p.
- Rights
- Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 0102 Applied Mathematics; 0807 Library and Information Studies; Collaboration sustainability; Reciprocity; Science of science; Scientific collaboration
- Full Text
- Reviewed
- Funder
- The authors extend their appreciation to the International Scientific Partnership Program ISPP at King Saud University for funding this research work through ISPP-78. This work is partially supported by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation ( 2019M651115 ).
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