Abstract

This study examined the publication patterns of the School of Biological Sciences’ faculty at the top three Korean universities based on the prestigious global and domestic university rankings in the biological sciences, using the numbers of papers appearing in journals for the 10 years (2008-2017) and the numbers of citations received by those articles covered by the Web of Science, and investigated any differences in the JIF Quartile, the journal citation indicator(JCI), and the citedness by the publication patterns such as authorship type, authorship, funding agency, and the number of authors. A total of 2,727 papers published by the 36 S university, 28 K university, and P 23 university faculty members were considered for this study. Looking at the publications by authorship type, S university faculty members published their papers, co-authored by K and P university researchers, more in high impact journals in terms of JIF Quartile, but K and P university faculty published internationally co-authored papers more in prestigious high impact journals. The study found a statistical difference for the three universities in the number of publications in high impact journals by authorship type, as measured by the Welch statistical test. The publication and citation patters of the S university faculty members were in contrast with those of the K and P university faculty in the citedness by the authorship type, authorship, and funding agency. According to the Pearson Correlation Coefficient, Journal Citation Indicator and the number of authors correlated with the number of citations which publications, written by the K and P universities’ faculty, have received.