Propiedades relacionales de las redes de colaboración y generación de conocimiento científico¿una cuestión de tamaño o equilibrio?

  1. África Villanueva-Felez 3
  2. Ana Fernández-Zubieta 1
  3. Davinia Palomares-Montero 2
  1. 1 Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IESA-CSIC), España
  2. 2 Universidad de Valencia, España
  3. 3 INGENIO (CSIC-UPV). Valencia, España
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Revista:
Revista española de documentación científica

ISSN: 0210-0614,  1988-4621

Any de publicació: 2014

Títol de l'exemplar: La colaboración científica

Volum: 37

Número: 4

Tipus: Article

DOI: 10.3989/REDC.2014.4.1143 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAccés obert editor

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This article analyses the effect of networks of scientists on the quantity and quality of their academic output. Information on the characteristics of the networks comes from a questionnaire completed by 191 Spanish academic scientists working in the field of nanotechnology. The article considers the networks that these scientists establish with other individuals and through organizations and examines how the degree of embeddedness and nodal heterogeneity of these networks affects scientists’ output. The findings show that the balance achieved among members of a network –whether individual or organizational-- explains more about the quantity and quality of academic output, than the size of the network. Regardless of their size, more integrated and geographically balanced networks of individuals enhance academic production; additionally their geographic balance also serves to enhance the quality of the output. In the case of organizational networks with a well-balanced institutional diversity, there is a greater quantity of academic production, as opposed to those organizational networks characterized by a geographic balance.

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