Hottenrott Hanna, Lawson Cornelia
TUM School of Management, Technische Universität München, Arcisstraße 21, 80333 Munich, Germany.
Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany.
Scientometrics. 2017;111(1):285-295. doi: 10.1007/s11192-017-2257-6. Epub 2017 Jan 28.
This study sheds light on the unexplored phenomenon of multiple institutional affiliations using scientific publications. Institutional affiliations are important in the organisation and governance of science. Multiple affiliations may alter the traditional framework of academic employment and careers and may require a reappraisal of institutional assessment based on research outcomes of affiliated staff. Results for authors in three major science and technology nations (Germany, Japan and the UK) and in three fields (biology, chemistry, and engineering) show that multiple affiliations have at least doubled over the past few years. The analysis proposes three major types of multiple affiliations that depend on the structure of the research sector and its international openness. Highly internationalised and higher education-centred affiliations are most common for researchers in the UK whereas Germany and Japan have stronger cross-sector affiliation patterns. International multiple affiliations are, however, still more common in Germany compared to Japan which is characterised by a domestic, cross-sector affiliation distribution. Moreover, multiple affiliation authors are more often found on high impact papers, particularly in the case of authors from Japan and Germany in the fields of biology and chemistry.
本研究通过科学出版物揭示了多重机构隶属关系这一未被探索的现象。机构隶属关系在科学的组织和管理中很重要。多重隶属关系可能会改变学术就业和职业的传统框架，可能需要根据附属人员的研究成果对机构评估进行重新审视。对三个主要科技国家（德国、日本和英国）以及三个领域（生物学、化学和工程学）的作者的研究结果表明，在过去几年中，多重隶属关系至少增加了一倍。该分析提出了三种主要的多重隶属关系类型，这取决于研究部门的结构及其国际开放程度。高度国际化且以高等教育为中心的隶属关系在英国研究人员中最为常见，而德国和日本则有更强的跨部门隶属关系模式。然而，与以国内跨部门隶属关系分布为特征的日本相比，德国的国际多重隶属关系仍然更为常见。此外，在高影响力论文上更常发现有多重隶属关系的作者，特别是在生物学和化学领域的日本和德国作者的情况下。
