%0 Journal Article
%T Letter to the Editor: 'Scientific collaboration and quality of scientific research'
%A James Hartley
%J Webology
%D 2009
%I Regional Information Center for Science and Technology (RICeST)
%X 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.
%K Scientific collaboration
%K Scientific research
%K Scientific papers
%K Quality
%K Citations
%K Productivity
%U http://www.webology.org/2009/v6n1/editorial19.html