Co-authoring in Social Sciences as a strategy for improving the visibility of scientific Works: increase in the number of citations (2005-2014)

  • Rocío Gómez-Crisóstomo Departamento de Información y Comunicación. Universidad de Extremadura (España)
  • Jorge Caldera-Serrano Departamento de Información y Comunicación. Universidad de Extremadura (España)
  • Luz María Romo-Fernández Departamento de Información y Comunicación. Universidad de Extremadura (España)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/CDMU.59517
Keywords: Social Sciences, scientifc work, international impact, co-authorship, Web of Science.

Abstract

Co-authorship is analyzed in WoS in the Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary category between 2005 and 2014, in order to demonstrate the hypothesis that there is a correlation between co-authorship and an increase in the number of citations. For this purpose, co-authorship has been analyzed both at the intrainstitutional, interinstitutional, national and international levels. It is observed how there is an increase in the citation of the works that have multi author relationships at both international and international level. The analysis and results have been made on a total of 1,105 documents relevant to our consultation, which is based on the fact that at least one author of the sea works of a Spanish institution.

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Published
2018-04-03
How to Cite
Gómez-Crisóstomo R., Caldera-Serrano J. y Romo-Fernández L. M. (2018). Co-authoring in Social Sciences as a strategy for improving the visibility of scientific Works: increase in the number of citations (2005-2014). Cuadernos de Documentación Multimedia, 29, 28-41. https://doi.org/10.5209/CDMU.59517
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Vol. 29 (2018)
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