The long-term influence of collaboration on citation patterns

Abstract

This study assesses the long-term impact of collaboration in terms of the extent to which collaborators cite each other’s works and cite the same publications as each other. The results are based on coauthorship of academic articles during 1990–2010. Although the number of citations to, and common references with, collaborators both increase as the number of collaborators increases over time, these differ between collaborators. For example, many authors do not cite their collaborators and many collaborators do not cite any of the same references as each other. In contrast, many authors cite their collaborators extensively and many collaborators have many of the same references as each other. The extent of citing collaborators and citing the same references as cited by collaborators varies with the impact of the collaborators. These widely different properties may reflect some collaborators working in completely different research areas, others working in the same broad research area, and still others working within a narrow research area. Alternatively, some collaborators may learn from or monitor each other while others do not.

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