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Early-career scientific achievement and patterns of authorship: the mixed blessings of publication leadership and collaboration

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  • Nick Haslam
  • Simon Laham

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Bibliometric indices of scientific achievement for a cohort of 85 social psychologists at 10 years post-PhD were correlated with their patterns of authorship (i.e. their typical number of co-authors and position in the authorship order). Career publication quantity, average journal impact factor, and impact (total citations, h-index and most-cited article) were associated with having higher proportions of publications with multiple co-authors and lower proportions of solo- and first-authored publications. Curvilinear associations were found, with publication quantity and impact maximized at intermediate levels of first-authorship and multiple-authorship. Within scientific careers there may be an optimal distribution of publication leadership and scientific collaboration. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

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  • Nick Haslam & Simon Laham, 2009. "Early-career scientific achievement and patterns of authorship: the mixed blessings of publication leadership and collaboration," Research Evaluation, Oxford University Press, vol. 18(5), pages 405-410, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:rseval:v:18:y:2009:i:5:p:405-410
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    1. Quan-Hoang Vuong & Tung Manh Ho & Thu-Trang Vuong & Ha Viet Nguyen & Nancy K. Napier & Hiep-Hung Pham, 2017. "Nemo Solus Satis Sapit : Trends of Research Collaborations in the Vietnamese Social Sciences, Observing 2008–2017 Scopus Data," Publications, MDPI, vol. 5(4), pages 1-15, October.
    2. Mehmet Ali Koseoglu, 2016. "Mapping the institutional collaboration network of strategic management research: 1980–2014," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 109(1), pages 203-226, October.
    3. Susan Biancani & Daniel McFarland, 2013. "Social Networks Research in Higher Education," Voprosy obrazovaniya / Educational Studies Moscow, National Research University Higher School of Economics, issue 4, pages 85-126.

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