Référence
Larivière, V., Gingras, Y., & Archambault, É. (2005). Comparative analysis of networks of collaboration of canadian researchers in the natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities. Dans Proceedings of the International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (p. 565-574). Stockholm : ISSI.
Résumé
A basic dichotomy is generally made between publication practices in the natural sciences and engineering (NSE) and social sciences and humanities (SSH). However, while researchers in the NSE share lots of common practices with researchers in SSH, the spectrum of practices is broader in the latter. Drawing data from the CD-ROM versions of the Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index from 1980 to 2002, this paper analyses collaboration in the SSH compared to the NSE. We show that, contrary to a widely held belief, researchers in the social sciences and the humanities have distinct collaborative practices. In fact, collaborative activities of researchers in the social sciences are more comparable to those of researchers in the NSE than to scholars in the humanities. Also, we see that language and cultural proximity influences the choice of collaborators in the SSH, but also in the NSE.