The effect of university–industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications : the Canadian case, 1980–2005
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Research evaluation ; vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 227-232.Publisher(s)
Oxford University PressAbstract(s)
Previous research on university-industry collaboration in Canada concluded, using mean impact
factors as a proxy, that the scientific impact of such research is not inferior to that of university
research. Using field-normalized impact factors and citation counts, this paper reexamines the
Canadian case. It shows that, when impact factors are field-normalized, university-industry
papers are published, on average, in journals with lower impact factors than papers originating
from universities only. However, field-normalized citation values reveal the opposite: the average
scientific impact of university-industry papers is significantly above that of both university-only
papers and industry-only papers. Collaboration with industries is, thus far from detrimental to the
scientific impact of university research and even increases it significantly.
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