Evaluating collaborative tendencies of research scholars working in Universities of Pakistan
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Date
2020
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UMT, Lahore
Abstract
The quality of scientific research publications has increased as a result of increased
scientific collaborations. Another area that is ripe for investigation is the effect of
integrating research on collaboration with a theoretical lens. Accordingly this work,
using the Network theory – degree, degree centrality, closeness centrality & betweenness
centrality - focuses on existence of in-house co-authorship network in selected universities
and its effect on the number of publications. It also addresses how such information can
facilitate recruitment and retention policies of universities. The large number of author
profiles of Scopus Scholar have been crawled and analyzed in this data driven study to
find the list of publications.
The number of authors working in in-house collaboration who are found to build an in-
house co-authorship network in Pakistan Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) is 46513
(2015-2019). Results imply that only a few universities have strong in-house co-author
networks