 Handcrafted by 16 men: The impact of single and multiple authorship in collaborative research networksJohn Rigby () Research Evaluation, 2005, vol. 14, issue 3, 199-206 Abstract: It is now widely believed that the more numerous the authors of a scientific paper, the greater is the likelihood of higher citation impact. By contrast, this paper considers a set of single- and multiple-authored publications in a group of matched journals that have resulted from collaborative research networks funded by the Austrian Science Fund, and presents evidence that no statistically significant relationship is found between multiple-authored papers and higher citation impact over single-authored papers. Moreover, within the data set examined, some evidence is found of a negative relationship between increasing numbers of authors and higher citation impact. The implication is drawn that where research is carried out within larger networks where researchers may benefit from a more general rather than a more specific collaboration, some researchers may publish their more important work through single-authored papers in order to enhance their reputations. Further implications of these findings are then considered for research funders and researchers. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing. Date: 2005 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oup:rseval:v:14:y:2005:i:3:p:199-206 Access Statistics for this article Research Evaluation is currently edited by Julia Melkers, Emanuela Reale and Thed van Leeuwen More articles in Research Evaluation from Oxford University Press |
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