Multi-authoring and its impact on university rankings: a case study of CERN effect on Turkish universities

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2019-06-03

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Çakır, Murat Perit
Acartürk, Cengiz
Akbulut, Ural

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Multi-authoring has been gaining popularity since the foundation of academic publishers. Today we observe a global trend in favor of multi-authoring. On the other hand, in certain domains, such as CERN collaborations in physics, multi-authoring has a different connotation than other domains. The number of co-authors may be above 5000, an all-time record in the history of academic publishing. CERN collaborations have been accomplishing one of the most significant achievements in physics, as well; therefore, the collaborations produce highly cited articles. Highly cited, multi-authored articles have influenced university rankings in the past decade, due to the distribution of the citations per affiliated institution. In the present study, we analyze the influence of multi-authored articles on ranking methodologies. Our findings reveal that the presence of multi-authored CERN articles have a significant impact on all bibliometric ranking indicators, and consequently on the ranking positions of the institutions worldwide.

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Academic publishing, Ranking indicators, University rankings, Academic performance, Multi-authored articles

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/31216

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STUDIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION

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https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2017.1414780

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M. P. Çakır, C. Acartürk, and U. Akbulut, “Multi-authoring and its impact on university rankings: a case study of CERN effect on Turkish universities,” STUDIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION, pp. 1052–1068, 2019, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/31216.