1. Collaboration pattern in male breast cancer research.
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Dwivedi, Sandhya and Garg, K. C.
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BREAST cancer , *EDUCATIONAL cooperation , *AUTHORSHIP collaboration , *STEM education , *PUBLICATIONS , *RESEARCH papers (Students) , *CANCER research - Abstract
An analysis of 4168 research papers on male breast cancer (MBC) published by different countries and indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded during 2005-2014 indicates that only 15% of the papers were non-collaborative and the rest were published either in domestic or international collaboration. The sub-field of MBC had a high proportion of domestic collaboration. The number of papers written with domestic collaboration was almost three times the number of papers written with international collaboration. The value of co-authorship index (CAI) decreased in single-, two- and multi-authored papers in the second block 2010-2014 as compared to the first block (2005- 2009). Higher value of CAI for mega-authored papers reflects higher collaborative coefficient (CC) in 2010-2014. The highest value of CC is for the sub-field S9 (genetics and heredity). This is also indicated by the highest value of CAI for mega-authored papers in this subfield. Among 17 highly productive institutions, CC value is more or equal to the global value of CC for 10 prolific institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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