Scientific productivity and group size: A bibliometric analysis of Norwegian microbiological research

Scientometrics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 125-143

  Seglen, Per O ^a,b   Aksnes, Dag W ^a  

^a Norwegian Inst Studs Res H   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000539234     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005665309719     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. S. J. LONG, R. MCGINNIS, Organizational context and scientific productivity, Am. Social. Rev., 46 (1981) 422-442.
2. S. KYVIK, Productivity in Academia. Scientific Publishing at Norwegian Universities. Universitetsforlaget, Oslo (1991), 256 pp.
3. H. DUNDAR, D. R. LEWIS (1998), Determinants of research productivity in higher education, Res. Higher Education, 39 (1998) 607-631.
4. A. RAMESH BABU, Y. P. SINGH, Determinants of research productivity, Scientometrics, 43 (1998) 309-329.
5. J. T. WALLMARK, S. ECKERSTEIN, B. LANGERED, H. E. S. HOLMQUIST, The increase in efficiency with size of research teams, IEE Transact. Eng. Manag., EM-20 (1973) 80-86.
6. D. CRANE, Invisible Colleges: Diffusion of Knowledge in Scientific Communities, Chicago University Press, Chicago (1972).
7. S. S. BLUME, R. SINCLAIR, Chemists in British universities: A study of the reward system in science, Am. Sociol. Rev., 38 (1973) 126-138.
8. K. D. KNORR, R. MITTERMEIR, G. AICHHOLZER, G. WALLER, Individual publication productivity as a social position effect in academic and industrial research units, In: F. M. ANDREWS (Ed.), Scientific Productivity: The Effectiveness of Research Groups in Six Countries, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1979).
9. N. PRAVDIC, V. OLUIC-VUKOVIC, Dual approach to multiple authorship in the study of collaboration/scientific output relationship, Scientometrics, 10 (1986) 259-280.
10. R. STANKIEWICZ, The size and age of Swedish academic research groups and their scientific performance, in: F.M. ANDREWS (Ed.), Scientific Productivity: The Effectiveness of Research Groups in Six Countries, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1979).
11. D. C. PELZ, F. M. ANDREWS, Scientists in Organisations, John Wiley (1966).
12. J. E. COHEN, Publication rate as a function of laboratory size in three biomedical research institutions, Scientometrics, 3 (1981) 467-487.
13. H. KRETSCHMER, Cooperation structure, group size and productivity in research groups, Scientometrics, 7 (1985) 39-53.
14. D. W. AKSNES, T. B. OLSEN, P. O. SEGLEN, Inadequacy of a journal-based research field delineation. Incomplete recovery of Norwegian microbiology articles in ISI's microbiology field, Proc. 7th Conf. Int. Soc. Scientometrics Informetrics, Colima, Mexico (1999) 1-10.
15. D. W. AKSNES, T. B. OLSEN, P. O. SEGLEN, Validation of bibliometric indicators in the field of microbiology. A Norwegian case study, Scientometrics, 49 (2000) 7-22.
16. P. O. SEGLEN, The skewness of science, J. Am. Soc. Information Sci., 43 (1992) 628-638.
17. E. W. MONTROLL, M. F. SHLESINGER, On 1/f noise and other distributions with long tails, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 79 (1982) 3380-3383.
18. A. J. LOTKA, The frequency distribution of scientific productivity, J. Washington Acad. Sci., 16 (1926) 317-323.
19. D. J. DE S. PRICE, Little Science, Big Science, Columbia University Press, New York (1963), 118 pp.
20. W. SHOCKLEY, On the statistics of individual variations of productivity in research laboratories, Proc. Inst. Radio Engineers, 45 (1957) 279-290.
21. R. K. MERTON, (1965). The ambivalence of scientists, in: N. KAPLAN (Ed.), Science and Society, Rand McNally & Co., Chicago (1965) 112-132.
22. D. J. DE S. PRICE, D. B. BEAVER, Collaboration in an invisible college, American Psychologist, 21 (1966) 1011-1018.
23. G. MELlN, O. PERSSON, Studying research collaboration using co-authorships, Scientometrics, 36 (1996) 363-377.
24. J. S. KATZ, B. R. MARTIN, What is research collaboration? Research Policy, 26 (1997) 1-18.
25. R. JOHNSTON, Effects of resource concentration on research performance, Higher Education, 28 (1994) 25-37.