Determining inventor status and its effect on knowledge diffusion: A study on nanotechnology literature from China, Russia, and India

By X.Liu, S. Kaza, P. Zhang,H. Chen. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Volume 62, Issue 6, pages 1166–1176, June 2011

An increasingly global research landscape, it is important to identify the most prolific researchers in various institutions and their influence on the diffusion of knowledge. Knowledge diffusion within institutions is influenced by  not just the status of individual researchers but also the collaborative culture that determines status…

Source:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.21528/full