Scientific collaboration networks in Pakistan and their impact on institutional research performance. A case study based on Scopus publications
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-03-2018-0036 |
| Published date | 18 March 2019 |
| Date | 18 March 2019 |
| Pages | 19-29 |
| Author | Fahad Sabah,Saeed-Ul Hassan,Amina Muazzam,Sehrish Iqbal,Saira Hanif Soroya,Raheem Sarwar |
| Subject Matter | Library & information science,Librarianship/library management,Library technology,Information behaviour & retrieval,Information user studies,Metadata,Information & knowledge management,Information & communications technology,Internet |
Scientific collaboration networks
in Pakistan and their impact on
institutional research performance
A case study based on Scopus publications
Fahad Sabah
Information Technology University, Lahore, Pakistan and
Superior University, Lahore, Pakistan
Saeed-Ul Hassan
Information Technology University, Lahore, Pakistan
Amina Muazzam
Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Pakistan
Sehrish Iqbal
Information Technology University, Lahore, Pakistan
Saira Hanif Soroya
University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, and
Raheem Sarwar
College of Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong,
Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
Abstract
Purpose –The purpose of this paper is to analyze the scientific collaboration of institutions and its impact on
institutional research performance in terms of productivity and quality. The researchers examined the local
and international collaborations that have a great impact on institutional performance.
Design/methodology/approach –Collaboration dependence measure was used to investigate the impact
of an institution on external information. Based on this information, the authors used “index of gain in impact
through collaboration”to find the impact of collaborated publications in institutional research performance.
Bibliographic data between 1996 and 2010 retrieved from Scopus were used to conduct current study.
The authors carried out the case study of top institutes of Pakistan in terms of publication count to elaborate
the difference between high performing institutions and those who gain disproportionally in terms of
perceived quality of their output because of local or international collaboration.
Findings –The results showed that the collaboration of developing countries institutes on international level
had a great impact on institutional performance and they gain more benefit than local collaboration.
Altogether, the scientific collaboration has a positive impact on institutional performance as measured by the
cumulative source normalized impact per paper of their publications. The findings could also help researchers
to find out appropriate collaboration partners.
Originality/value –This study has revealed some salient characteristics of collaboration in academic research.
It becomes apparent that collaboration intensity is not uniform, but in general, the average quality of scientific
production is the variable that most often correlates positively with the collaboration intensity of universities.
Keywords Bibliometrics, Collaboration networks, Institutional research performance,
International collaborations, Research performance, Scientific impact
Paper type Research paper
1. Introduction
Scientific collaboration has gained a lot of importance in science policy. The tremendous
growth of collaboration between research institutes since last 20 years has been in the
interest of nations and institutes, as science policy initiatives. There are several examples of
Library Hi Tech
Vol. 37 No. 1, 2019
pp. 19-29
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DOI 10.1108/LHT-03-2018-0036
Received 10 March 2018
Revised 22 June 2018
23 July 2018
13 August 2018
Accepted 24 August 2018
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