Creative Collaborations From Afar: The Benefits of Independent Authors

Autor:	Charlan Nemeth, Jack A. Goncalo
Rok vydání:	2005
Předmět:	Visual Arts and Performing Arts media_common.quotation_subject Developmental and Educational Psychology Locale (computer software) Quality (business) Psychology (miscellaneous) Product (category theory) Asset (economics) Psychology Creativity Citation Social psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Creativity Research Journal. 17:1-8
ISSN:	1532-6934 1040-0419
DOI:	10.1207/s15326934crj1701_1
Popis:	The number of times that an article is cited has served as an indicator of both its creativity and impact. In this study, we investigated the relation- ship between citations and 2 very simple vari- ables—the number of authors and the number of sepa- rate locations. Previous research, on balance, would support the notion that an increased number of collab- orators would increase the quality of the product, at least to some asymptote. Research on the effect of sepa- rate locations is more sparse. Most work favors collab- orations at the same locale, given a sharing of perspec- tive and benefits in terms of coordination and motivation. However, research from the minority influ- ence literature documents the stimulating effects of in- dependent and differing views, leading to the conclu- sion that independent locations would be an asset. Results from an analysis of 6 journals and 5,113 arti- cles over a 10-year period show the benefit of both the number of authors and the number of independent lo- cations. Journals also differed in their citation aver- age, Psychological Review being cited significantly more often than any of the other 5 journals.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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