How to Quantify Connectivity & Networking “Success”

[Eric K. Noji, M.D.]

Please see the link below for one example of how to measure the impact of an individuals publications, scientific collaborations, partnerships, scholarly output, quality of work, etc. The criteria used here is based on the network of collaborations that result, how many people one works with or brings into his or her specific arena of research (“Integrated semantic community platform). Clearly, the impact of a scientist’s work is more than simply the number of Google “hits”!. Unfortunately, the only way to convey the “network” visually is by connecting people (dots) by lines. Comes out looking like a spider-web (see below). Then the question becomes, how does one measure the impact, the success of a spider’s web? Perhaps the metric could be the number of prey, I mean students who are trapped by the spider. I mean professor…

For the complete analysis of this author’s connectivity, please go to the following link:

http://www.gopubmed.org/web/gopubmed/statistics/author/9649824