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| Assessment of the Academic Impact of Scholars Based on the Co-contributorship Network |
| Lu Chao, Li Mengting, Zhou Chenyu |
| Business School, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100 |
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Abstract Establishing a more scientific, fair, and comprehensive talent evaluation system is crucial for stimulating innovation, advancing scientific progress, and promoting economic development. Accurately assessing the academic impact of scholars is a vital component of this new talent evaluation framework, with significant implications for talent selection and resource allocation. However, existing research often focuses on individual evaluations, ignoring the personal contributions of all members within collaborative teams, that hinders a comprehensive assessment of the academic impact of scholars. To address this issue, this study integrates author contributions to construct a co-contributorship network, using the co-authorship network as a baseline. The study explores the application value of these networks in assessing the impact of scholars based on four evaluation metrics, including bibliometric indicators. Based on the data of this study, we found that (1) The co-contributorship network showed certain similarity to the co-authorship network in the ranking of the Top 1000 high-impact authors. (2) The co-contributorship network ranked lower than the co-authorship network in bibliometric evaluation indicators; however, no practically noteworthy difference was observed between the two in network metric evaluation indicators. (3) In terms of the actual contribution evaluation indicators, the co-contributorship network was more effective in identifying high-impact authors who contributed significantly more to the team. Additionally, in collaboration characteristic evaluation indicators, the co-contributorship network better identified high-impact scholars who were more likely to be corresponding authors, ranked earlier in the author order, and younger. These findings suggest that, although the co-contributorship network is slightly less effective than the co-authorship network in identifying top academic impact scholars, it more likely identifies high-impact scholars who have made significant contributions and possess leadership qualities, aligning with the national requirements for selecting and employing talents in the new era.
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Received: 04 September 2024
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