A baseline assessment research output is beneficial for policy decision makers to promote research. This paper presents a co-authorship network-based method to quantify and describe the scholarly publishing of a certain research field. To make our analysis more precise, we firstly generalized the measures used in previous literatures into formulas and analyzed the significance of the measures. We then classified our study into overall, individual, institutional and international levels to make our analysis clearer and more reasonable. Finally, we conduct a research of the structure, characteristics and development trend of co-authorship network based on publication output in top three journals in the field of information systems from 1993 to 2012. By synthetical analysis, our research results are helpful to know the productivity patterns, trends of the published research and status of international collaboration in this field.

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基于合着网络的研究领域演化理解方法：以信息系统研究为例

基线评估研究成果有利于政策决策者促进研究。本文提出了一种基于合着网络的方法来量化和描述某个研究领域的学术出版。为了使我们的分析更加精确，我们首先将以前文献中使用的措施概括为公式，并分析了这些措施的意义。然后我们将我们的研究分为整体、个人、机构和国际层面，使我们的分析更清晰、更合理。最后，我们基于1993-2012年信息系统领域前三大期刊的发表产出，对合着网络的结构、特征和发展趋势进行了研究。通过综合分析，我们的研究结果有助于了解合着网络的结构、特征和发展趋势。生产力模式，