J Korean Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry.  2017 Apr;28(2):149-154. 10.5765/jkacap.2017.28.2.149.

Co-Author Networks in Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

• Kim S
• Choi BS
• Kim B
• Kim KM

• KMID: 2377224
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.5765/jkacap.2017.28.2.149

Abstract

OBJECTIVES
The purpose of this study is to analyze the co-author networks in the Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, a representative journal published by a branch of the domestic psychiatric academy, in order to present the current state of the co-authoring of and developments in child and adolescent psychiatry.
METHODS
We visualized and estimated the basic characteristics of the co-author networks shown by 564 authors who wrote 251 papers published in the Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry between 2005 and 2015, in order to assess their network characteristics, author centrality, and relevance to research performance.
RESULTS
The co-author networks in the Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry showed the characteristics of a small world and scale-free network. There was a correlation between the author centrality within the network and the research performance of the authors, but less correlation was shown between the centrality and mean paper citation counts.
CONCLUSION
The network structure in the Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry showed similarity to the co-authoring of other branches. However, given that the mean paper citation counts were less correlated with the author centrality than those in other branches, it may be necessary to promote an increase in the mean paper citation counts.

Keyword

Co-author networks; Centrality; h-index

MeSH Terms

Adolescent
Adolescent Psychiatry*
Adolescent*
Child*
Humans