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Understanding Parachuting Collaboration

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Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue (iConference 2021)

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In contemporary times, collaborative research has become the cynosure of knowledge production and it is widely acknowledged as a means of improving research quality, high impact, and credence. This paper explores an interesting style of collaborative research in which researchers with no prior collaboration history, come together for the first time to produce a scientific article (parachuting collaboration). Based on the empirical analysis of \(\sim \)35.12 million articles in Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) across 19 disciplines, we observed that parachuting collaboration has been dominating knowledge production and it has been prevalent in all the disciplines. A closer inspection revealed that there has been a consistent decrease in the parachuting collaboration in recent times. To investigate this behavior further, we analyzed all 19 disciplines in the MAG dataset and surprisingly, the percentage of decrease was not the same for all disciplines. In our study, we found that for the non-STEM disciplines, the decrease is comparatively lower than the STEM disciplines.

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  1. School of Information, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

    Ajay Jaiswal & Ying Ding

  2. Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

    Meijun Liu

  3. Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

    Ying Ding

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  1. Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  2. Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

    Hui Yan

  3. The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Samuel Kai Wah Chu

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Jaiswal, A., Liu, M., Ding, Y. (2021). Understanding Parachuting Collaboration. In: Toeppe, K., Yan, H., Chu, S.K.W. (eds) Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue. iConference 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12645. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71292-1_16

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