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SciVal Metric: Academic-Corporate Collaboration Impact
Last updated on November 15, 2024
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Back to all metricsAcademic-Corporate Collaboration Impact in SciVal indicates the citation impact of an entity’s publications with or without both academic and corporate affiliations: how many citations do this entity’s publications receive when they list both academic and corporate affiliations, versus when they do not?
A publication either exhibits academic-corporate collaboration, or it does not. This assignment applies to the entity’s publications only, and the count of citations received is not limited to the collaboration status of the citing publications themselves; if a publication that resulted from academic-corporate collaboration is cited by another publication with only academic affiliations, that citation is still counted.
Academic-Corporate Collaboration Impact is a:
- Citation Impact metric
- Collaboration metric
SciVal often displays Academic-Corporate Collaboration Impact in a chart or table with years. These years are always the years in which items were published, and do not refer to the years in which citations were received.
- Benchmark the average influence of an entity’s publications with and without academic-corporate collaboration, such as:
- The citation impact of publications of academic research institutes that were published in industrial collaboration, compared to those that were not
- The citation impact of publications of Researchers located in a corporate affiliation that were published in academic collaboration, compared to those that were industry-only
- Compare the citation impact of these cross-sector publications between entities of different sizes, but from related disciplines, such as large and small international networks of Researchers
- Demonstrate any benefit from establishing and maintaining academic-corporate collaborations to the citation impact of an entity’s scholarly output
- Comparing entities in different disciplines where the citing behavior of academics may differ:
- Citation Counts tend to be higher in disciplines such as cardiology, whose academics tend to publish frequently and include long reference lists, than in anthropology, for example; this reflects differences in the behavior of researchers in distinct subject fields, and not differences in performance.
- It is not advisable to use this metric to compare entities in distinct disciplines without accounting for these differences.
- When comparing entities made up of a mixture of disciplines, such as an Institution, a Country or a Group of Countries, it is advised to apply the Research Area filter to focus on one field that is common between all the entities.
- Understanding the citation impact of collaborative papers of small entities, when there may be gaps in their output within the Scopus coverage:
- A single missing publication from a small data set may significantly distort the apparent performance, whereas the buffering effect of a larger data set may compensate for 1 or 2 missing publications.
- The only way to account for this is to be vigilant, particularly when looking at small data sets such as an early-career researcher. It is also advisable to limit the use of these metrics to comparing larger data sets in which potential gaps in the database coverage likely have a similar effect on all entities being viewed and will not invalidate the comparison.
- Entities are small so that the metric may fluctuate significantly and appear unstable over time, even when there is complete Scopus coverage:
- Academic-Corporate Collaboration Impact calculates an aver- age value using the mean, and these types of calculations are strongly influenced by outlying publications in a small data set.
- Understanding the performance of publications in the very early stages of a new strategy, or of early-career researchers, where the short time that has passed since publication will reduce the reliability of citation information as an input into decisions:
- These situations can be addressed by metrics that are useful immediately upon publication, such as Academic-Corporate Collaboration or Publications in Top Journal Percentiles.
- Citations per Publicationopens in new tab/window, that calculates the average citation impact across all publications within an entity regardless of their academic-corporate collaboration status. This metric could be a useful benchmark against which to judge the extent of benefit of different types of collaboration.
- Academic-Corporate Collaborationopens in new tab/window, which indicates the degree of collaboration between academic and corporate affiliations. This is a logical partner metric to Academic-Corporate Collaboration Impact.
- The set of “time-independent metrics” that provide useful, reliable information immediately upon publication and do not rely on the passing of time for useful data to accumulate: Scholarly Output, Subject Area Count, Scopus Source Title Count, Collaboration, Academic-Corporate Collaboration, and Publications in Top Journal
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