The Scientometrics and Reciprocality Underlying Co-Authorship Panels in Google Scholar Profiles

The Scientometrics and Reciprocality Underlying Co-Authorship Panels in Google Scholar Profiles. Alexi, A., Lazebnik, T., & Rosenfeld, A. August, 2023. arXiv:2308.07001 [cs]

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Online academic profiles are used by scholars to reflect a desired image to their online audience. In Google Scholar, scholars can select a subset of co-authors for presentation in a central location on their profile using a social feature called the “Co-authroship panel”. In this work, we examine whether scientometrics and reciprocality can explain the observed selections. To this end, we scrape and thoroughly analyze a novel set of 120,000 Google Scholar profiles, ranging across four disciplines and various academic institutions. Our results suggest that scholars tend to favor co-authors with higher scientometrics over others for inclusion in their co-authorship panels. Interestingly, as one’s own scientometrics are higher, the tendency to include co-authors with high scientometrics is diminishing. Furthermore, we find that reciprocality is central in explaining scholars’ selections.

@misc{alexi_scientometrics_2023,
	title = {The {Scientometrics} and {Reciprocality} {Underlying} {Co}-{Authorship} {Panels} in {Google} {Scholar} {Profiles}},
	url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07001},
	abstract = {Online academic profiles are used by scholars to reflect a desired image to their online audience. In Google Scholar, scholars can select a subset of co-authors for presentation in a central location on their profile using a social feature called the “Co-authroship panel”. In this work, we examine whether scientometrics and reciprocality can explain the observed selections. To this end, we scrape and thoroughly analyze a novel set of 120,000 Google Scholar profiles, ranging across four disciplines and various academic institutions. Our results suggest that scholars tend to favor co-authors with higher scientometrics over others for inclusion in their co-authorship panels. Interestingly, as one’s own scientometrics are higher, the tendency to include co-authors with high scientometrics is diminishing. Furthermore, we find that reciprocality is central in explaining scholars’ selections.},
	language = {en},
	urldate = {2023-08-15},
	publisher = {arXiv},
	author = {Alexi, Ariel and Lazebnik, Teddy and Rosenfeld, Ariel},
	month = aug,
	year = {2023},
	note = {arXiv:2308.07001 [cs]},
}

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