Spatial Dynamics Lab, School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
School of Applied Artificial Intelligence, Handong Global University, Pohang, South Korea.
PLoS One. 2022 Jul 25;17(7):e0271678. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0271678. eCollection 2022.
Disruptive advancements in science and technology often rely on new ideas and findings, which in turn brings us to focus on the value of novelty in scholarly activities. Using Web of Science publication data from European regions for the period between 2008 and 2017, this study examines, first, the impact of scientific collaboration on novelty of research. Here, five levels of collaboration are considered for each article-country, three levels of regions, and institutions, and novelty is measured with keywords information. Second, we investigate both the effect and moderating effect of research funding on novelty. Our findings show that there is a negative and significant relationship between scientific collaboration and novelty. Furthermore, funded papers show lower novelty than the unfunded, but funding does have a significant moderating effect on the relationship between collaboration and novelty. This study contributes by linking diverse levels of collaboration and funding sources to article's novelty and thus extending the scope of bibliometric research of publications.
科学技术的颠覆性进步往往依赖于新思想和新发现，这反过来又使我们关注学术活动中新颖性的价值。本研究利用 2008 年至 2017 年欧洲地区的 Web of Science 出版物数据，首先考察了科学合作对研究新颖性的影响。在这里，我们为每篇文章-国家考虑了五个级别的合作，三个级别的地区和机构，并且使用关键词信息来衡量新颖性。其次，我们调查了研究资金对新颖性的影响和调节作用。我们的研究结果表明，科学合作与新颖性之间存在负相关关系。此外，与未获得资助的论文相比，获得资助的论文的新颖性较低，但资助对合作与新颖性之间的关系具有显著的调节作用。本研究通过将不同层次的合作和资金来源与文章的新颖性联系起来，从而扩展了出版物的文献计量研究范围，做出了贡献。
