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Title: | Name order patterns of graduate candidates and supervisors in Chinese publications: a case study of three major Chinese universities | Authors: | Liang, L. Liu, J. ROUSSEAU, Ronald |
Issue Date: | 2004 | Publisher: | KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL | Source: | Scientometrics, 61(1). p. 3-18 | Abstract: | Studying three Chinese major universities of different type, this article attempts to validate earlier results related to authors' name order in papers co-authored by graduate candidates and their supervisors. Candidates for the doctoral degree as well as the master's degree are considered. Defining the g-ratio as the fraction of co-authored publications where the graduate student's name precedes that of the supervisor's we obtain the following results. 1) Generally, master's level g-ratios are smaller than the corresponding doctoral level g-ratios. 2) The three doctoral g-ratio time series have a common characteristic: they tend to a limiting target value of somewhat more than 80%. The master's time series of the three universities extend themselves in parallel with the doctoral time series. 3) The g-ratio of collaborative papers related to the dissertation is higher than the g-ratio of collaborative papers not related to the dissertation. This is true on the doctoral level as well as on the master's level. 4) Different disciplines have different g-ratios, representing disciplinary customs in graduate candidate-supervisor collaboration, the highest g-ratio in the doctoral case occurring in biology (except for Tsinghua University that does not offer courses in biology). 5) There exist only small differences between the g-ratios of different kinds of universities. 6) In recent years, the same candidate-supervisor collaboration patterns exist in international publications as in domestic ones. The fact that the doctoral g-ratios of all three universities are as high as 80% reflects a universal regularity in the structure of scientific collaboration between doctoral candidates and their supervisors in China. | Keywords: | SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTIVITY; AUTHORS; CITATION; AGE; COLLABORATION; SCIENCE | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/7444 | ISSN: | 0138-9130 | e-ISSN: | 1588-2861 | DOI: | 10.1023/B:SCIE.0000037359.22151.6f | ISI #: | 000223177700001 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution |
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