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The scaling relationship between degree centrality of countries and their citation-based performance on Management Information Systems

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  • Guillermo Armando Ronda-Pupo

    (Universidad Católica del Norte
    Universidad de Holguín)

  • J. Sylvan Katz

    (University of Sussex
    University of Saskatchewan Campus)

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to explore the power-law relationship between the degree centrality of countries and their citation-based performance in Management Information Systems research. We analyzed 27,662 articles that received 127,974 citations. The distribution of the citation-based performance follows a power law with exponent of −2.46 ± 0.05. The distribution of the centrality degree of countries follows a power law with exponent of −2.26 ± 0.24. The citation-based performance and degree centrality exhibited a power-law correlation with a scaling exponent of 1.22 ± 0.04. Citations to the articles of a country in MIS tend to increase 21.22 or 2.33 times each time it doubles its degree centrality in the international collaborative network. Policies that encourage a country to increase its degree centrality in a collaboration network can disproportionately increase the impact of its research.

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  • Guillermo Armando Ronda-Pupo & J. Sylvan Katz, 2017. "The scaling relationship between degree centrality of countries and their citation-based performance on Management Information Systems," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 112(3), pages 1285-1299, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:scient:v:112:y:2017:i:3:d:10.1007_s11192-017-2459-y
    DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2459-y
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