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The normalization of co-authorship networks in the bibliometric evaluation: the government stimulation programs of China and Korea

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Using co-authored publications between China and Korea in Web of Science (WoS) during the one-year period of 2014, we evaluate the government stimulation program for collaboration between China and Korea. In particular, we apply dual approaches, full integer versus fractional counting, to collaborative publications in order to better examine both the patterns and contents of Sino-Korean collaboration networks in terms of individual countries and institutions. We first conduct a semi-automatic network analysis of Sino-Korean publications based on the full-integer counting method, and then compare our categorization with contextual rankings using the fractional technique; routines for fractional counting of WoS data are made available at http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/fraction. Increasing international collaboration leads paradoxically to lower numbers of publications and citations using fractional counting for performance measurement. However, integer counting is not an appropriate measure for the evaluation of the stimulation of collaborations. Both integer and fractional analytics can be used to identify important countries and institutions, but with other research questions.

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  1. The search string “CU = Korea AND PY = 2014” retrieves 63,833 records, of which 63,806 (>99.9 %) has an address in South Korea and 28 in North Korea. Since this adds up to 63.834, obviously one paper was co-authored by North and South Koreans. However, one can also search with “CU = South Korea” in the database. The search “CU = (South Korea AND China) AND PY = 2014” retrieved 2765 records on January 19, 2016.

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  1. Department of Media and Communication, Interdisciplinary Program of East Asian Cultural Studies, Interdisciplinary Program of Digital Convergence Business, Yeungnam University, 214-1 Dae-dong, Gyeongsan-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, 712-749, South Korea

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  2. National Research Foundation of Korea, 63-389 Hangang-ro 3ga, Yongsan-Gu, Seoul, 140-763, South Korea

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  3. Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam, PO Box 15793, 1001 NG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Park, H.W., Yoon, J. & Leydesdorff, L. The normalization of co-authorship networks in the bibliometric evaluation: the government stimulation programs of China and Korea. Scientometrics 109, 1017–1036 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-1978-2

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