  The aim of this paper is to extend our knowledge about the power-law
relationship between citation-based performance and collaboration patterns for
papers of the Natural Sciences domain. We analyzed 829,924 articles that
received 16,490,346 citations. The number of articles published through
collaboration account for 89%. The citation-based performance and collaboration
patterns exhibit a power-law correlation with a scaling exponent of 1.20,
SD=0.07. We found that the Matthew effect is stronger for collaborated papers
than for single-authored. This means that the citations to a field research
areas articles increase 2.30 times each time it doubles the number of
collaborative papers. The scaling exponent for the power-law relationship for
single-authored papers was 0.85, SD=0.11. The citations to a field research
area single-authored articles increase 1.89 times each time the research area
doubles the number of non-collaborative papers.
