EIGENFACTOR CENTRALITY ANALYSIS OF THE AUTHORSHIP COOPERATION WITHIN THE ROMANIAN RESEARCH AREA
EIGENFACTOR CENTRALITY ANALYSIS OF THE AUTHORSHIP COOPERATION WITHIN THE ROMANIAN RESEARCH AREA

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the cooperation in terms of authorship of research papers within the Romanian research area and its dynamics in 2006-2009. During this period of time the Romanian government funding of the scientific research had an unprecedented increase, resulting in a corresponding increase for the overall number of research papers published in scholarly journals. Some institutions favored a sustainable increase, reflected in the increase of both Eigenfactor and Authorship Cooperation scores. As a result we consider that these institutions further consolidated their position within the Romanian Research Area. For other institutions, despite the overall increase in the number of publications, both Eigenfactor and Authorship Cooperation scores decrease with possible negative impact of the medium term dynamics. The present analysis and the corresponding methodology could help institutional or national policy makers in actively promoting scientific cooperation in order to better use complementary expertise as well as the existing top research infrastructure.

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