Excellence networks in science: A Web-based application based on Bayesian multilevel logistic regression (BMLR) for the identification of institutions collaborating successfully

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 312-327

  Bornmann, Lutz ^a   Stefaner, Moritz ^b   de Moya Anegón, Felix ^c   Mutz, Rüdiger ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b Eickedorfer Damm 35   (Germany)

^c Institute of Public Goods and Policies   (Spain)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Best paper rate; Citation network; Co authorship; Collaboration

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; PAPER; WEB SERVICES;

CITATION NETWORKS; CO-AUTHORSHIPS; COLLABORATION; CONFERENCE PAPERS; HIGHLY-CITED PAPERS; MULTI-LEVEL LOGISTICS; SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS; WEB-BASED APPLICATIONS;

LOGISTIC REGRESSION;

EID: 84958149091     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: 18755879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2016.01.005     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Adams J. Collaborations: The rise of research networks. Nature 2012, 490(7420):335-336.
2. Apolloni A., Rouquier J.-B., Jensen P. Collaboration range: Effects of geographical proximity on article impact. The European Physical Journal Special Topics 2013, 222(6):1467-1478. 10.1140/epjst/e2013-01937-5.
3. Bayarri M.J., Berger J.O. The interplay of Bayesian and frequentist analysis. Statistical Science 2004, 19(1):58-80. 10.1214/088342304000000116.
4. Börner K., Sanyal S., Vespignani A. Network science. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 2007, 41(1):537-607. 10.1002/aris.2007.1440410119.
5. Bornmann L., de Moya Anegón F., Leydesdorff L. The new Excellence Indicator in the World Report of the SCImago Institutions Rankings 2011. Journal of Informetrics 2012, 6(2):333-335. 10.1016/j.joi.2011.11.006.
6. Bornmann L., Leydesdorff L. Topical connections between the institutions within an organisation (institutional co-authorships, direct citation links and co-citations). Scientometrics 2015, 102(1):455-463. 10.1007/s11192-014-1425-1.
7. Bornmann L., Leydesdorff L., Wang J. Which percentile-based approach should be preferred for calculating normalized citation impact values? An empirical comparison of five approaches including a newly developed citation-rank approach (P100). Journal of Informetrics 2013, 7(4):933-944. 10.1016/j.joi.2013.09.003.
8. Bornmann L., Mutz R., Daniel H.-D. A multilevel-statistical reformulation of citation-based university rankings: The Leiden Ranking 2011/2012. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2013, 64(8):1649-1658.
9. Bornmann L., Mutz R., Marx W., Schier H., Daniel H.-D. A multilevel modelling approach to investigating the predictive validity of editorial decisions: Do the editors of a high-profile journal select manuscripts that are highly cited after publication?. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series A (Statistics in Society) 2011, 174(4):857-879. 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2011.00689.x.
10. Bornmann L., Stefaner M., de Moya Anegón F., Mutz R. Ranking and mapping of universities and research-focused institutions worldwide based on highly-cited papers: A visualization of results from multi-level models. Online Information Review 2014, 38(1):43-58.
11. Bornmann L., Stefaner M., de Moya Anegón F., Mutz R. What is the effect of country-specific characteristics on the research performance of scientific institutions? Using multi-level statistical models to rank and map universities and research-focused institutions worldwide. Journal of Informetrics 2014, 8(3):581-593. 10.1016/j.joi.2014.04.008.
12. Bornmann L., Stefaner M., de Moya Anegón F., Mutz R. Ranking and mapping of universities and research-focused institutions worldwide: The third release of excellencemapping.net. COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management 2015, 9(1):61-68.
13. Bozeman B., Fay D., Slade C. Research collaboration in universities and academic entrepreneurship: The-state-of-the-art. The Journal of Technology Transfer 2013, 38(1):1-67. 10.1007/s10961-012-9281-8.
14. Chessa A., Morescalchi A., Pammolli F., Penner O., Petersen A.M., Riccaboni M. Is Europe evolving toward an integrated research area?. Science 2013, 339(6120):650-651. 10.1126/science.1227970.
15. Chinchilla-Rodriguez Z., Vargas-Quesada B., Hassan-Montero Y., Gonzalez-Molina A., de Moya Anegón F. New approach to the visualization of international scientific collaboration. Information Visualization 2010, 9(4):277-287.
16. Cimenler O., Reeves K.A., Skvoretz J. A regression analysis of researchers' social network metrics on their citation performance in a college of engineering. Journal of Informetrics 2014, 8(3):667-682. 10.1016/j.joi.2014.06.004.
17. Congdon P. Applied Bayesian hierarchical methods 2010, Chapman & Hall, London, UK.
18. Frenken K., Hoekman J. Spatial scientometrics and scholarly impact: A review of recent studies, tools, and methods. Measuring scholarly impact 2014, 127-146. Springer International Publishing. Y. Ding, R. Rousseau, D. Wolfram (Eds.).
19. Gelman A., Carlin J.B., Stern H.S., Dunson D.B., Vehtari A., Rubin D.B. Bayesian data analysis 2014, Chapman & Hall, New York, NY, USA.
20. Gelman A., Hill J. Data analysis using regression and multilevel/hierarchical models 2007, University Press, Cambridge, NY, USA.
21. Gelman A., Loken E. The statistical crisis in science. American Scientist 2014, 102(6):460-465.
22. Goldstein H. Multilevel model 2011, Wiley, New York, NY, USA. 4th ed.
23. Goldstein H., Healy M.J.R. The graphical representation of a collection of means. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A - Statistics in Society 1995, 158:175-177.
24. Greenland S. Principles of multilevel modelling. International Journal of Epidemiology 2000, 29(1):158-167. 10.1093/ije/29.1.158.
25. Guerrero-Bote V.P., de Moya Anegón F. A further step forward in measuring journals' scientific prestige: The SJR2 indicator. Journal of Informetrics 2012, 6(4):674-688.
26. Hamaker E.L., Klugkist I. Bayesian estimation of multilevel models. Handbook of advanced multilevel analysis 2011, 137-163. Taylor & Francis, New York, NY, USA. J. Hox, K.J. Roberts (Eds.).
27. Hicks D., Wouters P., Waltman L., de Rijcke S., Rafols I. Bibliometrics: The Leiden Manifesto for research metrics. Nature 2015, 520(7548):429-431.
28. Hox J.J. Multilevel analysis: Techniques and applications 2010, Routledge, New York, NY, USA. 2nd ed.
29. Hunter R.S. Accuracy, precision, and stability of new photo-electric color-difference meter. JOSA (Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America) 1948, 38(12):1094.
30. Jacomy M., Venturini T., Heymann S., Bastian M. ForceAtlas 2, a continuous graph layout algorithm for handy network visualization designed for the Gephi software. PLoS ONE 2014, 9(6):e98679. 10.1371/journal.pone.0098679.
31. Jebb A.T., Woo S.E. A Bayesian primer for the organizational sciences: The "Two Sources" and an introduction to BugsXLA. Organizational Research Methods 2015, 18(1):92-132. 10.1177/1094428114553060.
32. Kass R.E. Statistical inference: The big picture. Statistical Science 2011, 26(1):1-9. 10.1214/10-Sts337.
33. Katz J.S. Geographical proximity and scientific collaboration. Scientometrics 1994, 31(1):31-43.
34. Katz J.S., Martin B.R. What is research collaboration?. Research Policy 1997, 26(1):1-18.
35. Knoke D., Yang S. Social network analysis 2008, Sage, London, UK. 2 ed.
36. Kumar S. Co-authorship networks: A review of the literature. Aslib Journal of Information Management 2015, 67(1):55-73. 10.1108/ajim-09-2014-0116.
37. Lancho-Barrantes B., Guerrero-Bote V., de Moya Anegón F. Citation increments between collaborating countries. Scientometrics 2013, 94(3):817-831. 10.1007/s11192-012-0797-3.
38. Larivière V., Gingras Y., Sugimoto C.R., Tsou A. Team size matters: Collaboration and scientific impact since 1900. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 2015, 66(7):1323-1332. 10.1002/asi.23266.
39. Levitt J.M., Thelwall M. Does the higher citation of collaborative research differ from region to region? A case study of Economics. Scientometrics 2010, 85(1):171-183. 10.1007/s11192-010-0197-5.
40. Leydesdorff L., Wagner C., Park H.W., Adams J. International collaboration in science: The global map and the network. El profesional de la información 2013, 22(1):87-94.
41. Lunn D., Jackson C., Best N., Thomas A., Spiegelhalter D. The BUGS book - A practical introduction to Bayesian analysis 2013, Chapman & Hall, London, UK.
42. Ma H., Fang C., Pang B., Li G. The effect of geographical proximity on scientific cooperation among Chinese cities from 1990 to 2010. PLoS ONE 2014, 9(11):e111705. 10.1371/journal.pone.0111705.
43. Martin B., Nightingale P., Rafols I. Response to the call for evidence to the independent review of the role of metrics in research assessment Retrieved 04.05.16. https://www.sussex.ac.uk/webteam/gateway/file.php?name=spru-response-final.pdf%26site=25.
44. Mulligan A., Mabe M. Journal futures: Researcher behaviour at early Internet maturity 2006, April 3-5, Paper presented at the UK Serials Group (UKSG) Annual Conference, University of Warwick, UK.
45. Mutz R., Daniel H.D. Development of a ranking procedure by mixed Rasch model and multilevel analysis - Psychology as an example. Diagnostica 2007, 53(1):3-16. 10.1026/0012-1924.53.1.3.
46. ® 9.3 user's guide 2011, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA.
47. ® 13.1 user's guide 2013, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA.
48. Simonton D.K. After Einstein: Scientific genius is extinct. Nature 2013, 493(7434):602.
49. Smith R. Problems with peer review and alternatives. British Medical Journal 1988, 296(6624):774-777.
50. Snijders T.A.B., Bosker R.J. Multilevel analysis: An introduction to basic and advanced multilevel modeling 2004, Sage Publications, London, UK.
51. Snijders T.A.B., Spreen M., Zwaagstra R. The use of multilevel modeling for analysing personal networks: Networks of Cocaine users in an urban area. Journal of Quantitative Anthropology 1995, 5:85-105.
52. Snyder J.P. Map projections - A working manual 1926, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, USA.
53. Subramanyam K. Bibliometric studies of research collaboration: A review. Journal of Information Science 1983, 6(1):33-38. 10.1177/016555158300600105.
54. Sugimoto C.R. Collaboration in information and library science doctoral education. Library & Information Science Research 2011, 33(1):3-11. 10.1016/j.lisr.2010.05.003.
55. Wagner C.S., Park H.W., Leydesdorff L. The continuing growth of global cooperation networks in research: A conundrum for national governments. PLoS ONE 2015, 10(7):e0131816. 10.1371/journal.pone.0131816.
56. Waltman L., Calero-Medina C., Kosten J., Noyons E.C.M., Tijssen R.J.W., van Eck N.J., et al. The Leiden Ranking 2011/2012: Data collection, indicators, and interpretation. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2012, 63(12):2419-2432.
57. Waltman L., Schreiber M. On the calculation of percentile-based bibliometric indicators. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2013, 64(2):372-379.
58. Waltman L., Tijssen R.J.W., van Eck N.J. Globalisation of science in kilometres. Journal of Informetrics 2011, 5(4):574-582. 10.1016/j.joi.2011.05.003.
59. Waltman L., van Eck N.J. Field-normalized citation impact indicators and the choice of an appropriate counting method 2015, Retrieved from http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04431 (August 2015).
60. Ziman J. Real science. What it is, and what it means 2000, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.