The scaling relationship between degree centrality of countries and their citation based performance on Management Information Systems
The aim of this paper is to explore the power law relationship between the degree centrality of countries and their citation based performance in Management Information Systems research. We analyzed 27,662 articles that received 127,974 citations. The distribution of the citation based performance follows a power law with exponent of 2.46 0.05. The distribution of the centrality degree of countries follows a power law with exponent of 2.26 0.24. The citation based performance and degree centrality exhibited a power law correlation with a scaling exponent of 1.22 0.04. Citations to the articles of a country in MIS tend to increase 21.22 or 2.33 times each time it doubles its degree centrality in the international collaborative network. Policies that encourage a country to increase its degree centrality in a collaboration network can disproportionately increase the impact of its research.
Scientometrics