Study on the Change of Scientific Research Cooperation Before and After Receiving the Cheung Kong Scholars Award: A Case Study of Recipients in 2005

  • Liu Xiaojuan ,
  • Yu Mengxia ,
  • Zhao Zhuojing ,
  • Wei Yu
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  • School of Government, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875

Received date: 2019-05-15

  Revised date: 2019-08-14

  Online published: 2020-02-05

Abstract

[Purpose/significance] Scientific cooperation has become a common phenomenon in research activities, and many research projects have also included teamwork in the scope of assessment of implementation effects. Therefore, it is beneficial to the evaluation and sustainable development of the talents projects to explore the changes in the cooperation relationship before and after their receiving the support and explore the role of Cheung Kong Scholars in team building, international and domestic cooperation.[Method/process] In this study, we take the recipients in 2005 of the Cheung Kong Scholars Award as example and take the Wilcoxon signed rank test method to analyze the changes in the cooperative relationship before and after their receiving the award. The cooperative relationship includes the following aspects:the size of the cooperation social network, the strength of cooperation, the duration of cooperation, the role of cooperation, the strength of international and domestic cooperation. The dataset of this study comprised 83 researchers and 11 522 SCI/SSCI papers published between 1996 and 2015, and the analysis was divided into two 10-year periods-the preaward period (1996-2005) and the postaward period (2006-2015).[Result/conclusion] It is found that the Cheung Kong Scholars have played a leading role in team building, international and domestic cooperation after reviving the award. The scholars significantly increased their cooperation social networks (42 VS. 148) and enhanced their cooperation strength (2.17 VS. 2.45) with their partners in the postaward periods. However, the duration of cooperation between the recipients and their collaborators before and after receiving the award was relatively short, and nearly 70% of the cooperation lasted only one year. Moreover, the scholars' coauthorship patterns changed significantly after receiving the award. In both number and proportion, they became less likely to act as the first author, but more likely to be listed as the last author or corresponding author.

Cite this article

Liu Xiaojuan , Yu Mengxia , Zhao Zhuojing , Wei Yu . Study on the Change of Scientific Research Cooperation Before and After Receiving the Cheung Kong Scholars Award: A Case Study of Recipients in 2005[J]. Library and Information Service, 2020 , 64(3) : 100 -110 . DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2020.03.011

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