ICT AS AN INTERMEDIARY BETWEEN NETWORKING AND CITATION IN SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING

Abstract

Development of ICT (information and communication technologies) changes almost every industry and endeavor. Influence of ICT has been elaborately researched, with conclusion that ICT positively influences networking on the level of individual and organization. This paper has been directed toward researching relations between networking and citation, in order to confirm positive influence of ICT on citation increase. Theoretical background is in networking theory, and empirical in the National Library of Serbia database of published papers. The network theory, based on mathematical research of graphs and application of related models in social environment, is generally applied to describe relations between individuals and organizations. This paper will show network parameters used to describe relations between authors of the research papers. Analyzed data covers the period between 2010 and 2014, more than 2000 papers. Results show positive correlation between cooperation of published paper authors (in core enabled by ICT development), described by network parameters and number of published papers citations.