Volume 6, No 1, 2009
Letter to the Editor 'Scientific collaboration and quality of scientific research'
Dear Dr. Noruzi
Abstract
The conclusions you reached in your editorial (Noruzi, 2008) that 'a published paper resulting from collaborative research has a higher chance of attracting more citations' might well be right, but not from the data that you presented. In your study you counted the number of co-authored and the number of single-authored papers published from prestigious universities, and the numbers of citations that they received. But it is not correct to conclude from this procedure that co-authoring leads to higher citation rates because, in your study, there were many more co-authored papers. Technically, to test your hypothesis properly, you would need to compare the citation rates of an equal number of co-authored and single-authored papers to arrive at a fair conclusion.
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