How to Compare the Scientific Contributions between Research Groups

TL;DR

This paper introduces a network analysis method to compare scientific contributions of research groups by constructing journal/proceeding graphs, demonstrated through analyzing Korean and global information security research from 2006-2008.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel approach to quantify and compare research group contributions using graph-based similarity measures.

Findings

Korean security research is isolated from global trends.

The method effectively measures topic and quality gaps.

Empirical analysis validates the approach.

Abstract

We present a method to analyse the scientific contributions between research groups. Given multiple research groups, we construct their journal/proceeding graphs and then compute the similarity/gap between them using network analysis. This analysis can be used for measuring similarity/gap of the topics/qualities between research groups' scientific contributions. We demonstrate the practicality of our method by comparing the scientific contributions by Korean researchers with those by the global researchers for information security in 2006 - 2008. The empirical analysis shows that the current security research in South Korea has been isolated from the global research trend.