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Change in Academic Coauthorship, 1953-2003
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & HUMAN VALUES
Volume:
37
Issue:
3
Pages:
210-234
DOI:
10.1177/0162243911406744
Published:
MAY 2012
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SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & HUMAN VALUES
Publisher SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2455 TELLER RD, THOUSAND OAKS, CA 91320 USA
ISSN:
0162-2439
Research Domain
Social Issues
Abstract
Coauthored scholarship increased substantially across fields of science during the twentieth century, but it is unclear whether this growth reflects change in the behavior of individual scientists (i.e., career aging) or publishing differences between cohorts of researchers (i.e., cohort succession). I examine the publication records of an interdisciplinary sample of university scientists and find evidence of both career-aging and cohort-succession processes, although cohort differences are much more pronounced than individual changes. Specifically, scientists in this sample increased the percentage of their articles with coauthors by 0.63 percentage points annually. However, compared to those who received their PhDs between 1953 and 1962, scientists who entered the workforce between 1983 and 1991 coauthored approximately one third more of their early career articles (35.63 percentage points). Additionally, career-aging processes in coauthorship varied by PhD cohort, with earlier trained researchers increasing more rapidly. Overall, this article highlights cohort succession as a source of change in coauthorship, and underscores the importance of accounting for generational differences in studies of scientific careers.
Author Information
Reprint Address:
O'Brien, TL (reprint author)
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Addresses:
E-mail Addresses:obrient@indiana.edu
Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2455 TELLER RD, THOUSAND OAKS, CA 91320 USA
Categories / Classification
Research Areas:Social Issues
Web of Science Categories:Social Issues
Document Information
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Accession Number:
WOS:000303392000003
ISSN:
0162-2439
Other Information
IDS Number:
933VK
Cited References in Web of Science Core Collection:
58
Times Cited in Web of Science Core Collection:
5
| JCR® Category | Quartile in Category | | SOCIAL ISSUES | Q1 |
Data from the 2014 edition of Journal Citation Reports®
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