Canadian collaboration networks:: A comparative analysis of the natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities
Canadian collaboration networks:: A comparative analysis of the natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities
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DOI：
10.1007/s11192-006-0127-8
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发表时间：
2006-12-01
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影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Archambault, Eric
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作者：
Lariviere, Vincent;Gingras, Yves;Archambault, Eric
在自然科学与工程（NSE）和社会科学与人文（SSH）的出版实践之间，通常有一个基本的二分法。然而，尽管NSE的研究人员与SSH的研究人员有一些共同的实践，但后者的实践范围更广。本文利用1980 - 2002年《科学引文索引》、《社会科学引文索引》和《艺术与人文引文索引》光盘版本的数据，比较了SSH与NSE的合作模式。我们表明，与广泛持有的信念相反，社会科学和人文科学的研究人员并没有形成一个同质的类别。事实上，社会科学研究人员的合作活动比人文科学研究人员的合作活动更具有可比性。此外，我们还看到语言和地理邻近影响了SSH中合作者的选择，但也影响了NSE。这一实证分析为NSE研究人员与SSH研究人员的合作活动提供了新的视角，可能具有政策意义，因为这些领域的授予委员会倾向于模仿为NSE开发的计划，而不总是考虑人文学科的特殊性。
A basic dichotomy is generally made between publication practices in the natural sciences and engineering (NSE) on the one hand and social sciences and humanities (SSH) on the other. However, while researchers in the NSE share some common practices with researchers in SSH, the spectrum of practices is broader in the latter. Drawing on data from the CD-ROM versions of the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index from 1980 to 2002, this paper compares collaboration patterns in the SSH to those in the NSE. We show that, contrary to a widely held belief, researchers in the social sciences and the humanities do not form a homogeneous category. In fact, collaborative activities of researchers in the social sciences are more comparable to those of researchers in the NSE than in the humanities. Also, we see that language and geographical proximity influences the choice of collaborators in the SSH, but also in the NSE. This empirical analysis, which sheds a new light on the collaborative activities of researchers in the NSE compared to those in the SSH, may have policy implications as granting councils in these fields have a tendency to imitate programs developed for the NSE, without always taking into account the specificity of the humanities.