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The effect of document types and sizes on the scaling relationship between citations and co-authorship patterns in management journals

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  • Guillermo Armando Ronda-Pupo

    (Universidad Católica del Norte
    Universidad de Holguín)

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The aim of this paper is to explore the power-law relationship between citation-based performance (CBP) and co-authorship patterns for papers in management journals by analyzing its behavior according to the type of documents (articles and reviews) and the number of pages of documents. We analyzed 36,241 papers that received 239,172 citations. The scaling exponent of CBP for article papers was larger than for reviews. Citations to articles increased 21.67 or 3.18 times each time the number of article papers published in a year in management journals doubled. The citations to reviews increased 21.29 or 2.45 times each time the number of reviews published in a year in management journals doubled. The scaling exponent for the power-law relationship of citation-based performance according to number of pages of papers was 1.44 ± 0.05 for articles and 1.25 ± 0.05 for reviews. The citations to articles increased faster than citation to reviews. The scaling exponent for the power-law of citation-based performance to co-authored articles was higher than single-authored articles. For reviews the scaling exponent was the same for the relationship between citation based performance and the number of reviews. Citations increased faster in single authored reviews than co-authored reviews.

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  • Guillermo Armando Ronda-Pupo, 2017. "The effect of document types and sizes on the scaling relationship between citations and co-authorship patterns in management journals," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 110(3), pages 1191-1207, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:scient:v:110:y:2017:i:3:d:10.1007_s11192-016-2231-8
    DOI: 10.1007/s11192-016-2231-8
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