Exploring the relationship between research impact and collaborations for information science

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 774-780

  Abbasi, Alireza ^a   Hossain, Liaquat ^a   Owen, Christine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coauthorship analysis; Institutional and national level analysis; Internal and external collaborations; Research impact; Scientific collaboration network

Indexed keywords

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

COAUTHORSHIP; INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL COLLABORATIONS; NATIONAL LEVEL; RESEARCH IMPACTS; SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION NETWORKS;

PUBLISHING;

EID: 84857956303     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2012.664     Document Type: Conference Paper

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