The sum of it all: Revealing collaboration patterns by combining authorship and acknowledgements

Adèle Paul-Hus, Philippe Mongeon, Maxime Sainte-Marie and Vincent Larivière

Journal of Informetrics, 2017, vol. 11, issue 1, 80-87

Abstract: Acknowledgments are one of many conventions by which researchers publicly bestow recognition towards individuals, organizations and institutions that contributed in some way to the work that led to publication. Combining data on both co-authors and acknowledged individuals, the present study analyses disciplinary differences in researchers’ credit attribution practices in collaborative context. Our results show that the important differences traditionally observed between disciplines in terms of team size are greatly reduced when acknowledgees are taken into account. Broadening the measurement of collaboration beyond co-authorship by including individuals credited in the acknowledgements allows for an assessment of collaboration practices and team work that might be closer to the reality of contemporary research, especially in the social sciences and humanities.

Keywords: Collaboration; Co-authorship; Acknowledgements; Credit attribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2016.11.005

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