Collaborative patterns, authorship practices and scientific success in biomedical research: a network analysis
| Autor: | Vanash M. Patel, Tim S. Evans, Pietro Panzarasa, Nick Sevdalis, Hutan Ashrafian, Thanos Athanasiou, Ali Kirresh, Ara Darzi |
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| Přispěvatelé: | National Institute of Health Research |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Biomedical Research
IMPACT medical management 0603 philosophy ethics and religion CREDIT 1117 Public Health and Health Services CENTRALITY 03 medical and health sciences Medicine General & Internal 0302 clinical medicine Medical careers General & Internal Medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Sociology Cooperative Behavior Social Behavior Science & Technology Research H INDEX Publications 06 humanities and the arts General Medicine PERFORMANCE JOURNALS Data science Authorship United Kingdom Quantitative analysis (finance) 060301 applied ethics medical education Centrality Life Sciences & Biomedicine Network analysis |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 112:245-257 |
| ISSN: | 1758-1095 0141-0768 |
| Popis: | SummaryObjectiveTo investigate the relationship between biomedical researchers' collaborative and authorship practices and scientific success.DesignLongitudinal quantitative analysis of individual researchers' careers over a nine-year period.SettingA leading biomedical research institution in the United Kingdom.ParticipantsFive hundred and twenty-five biomedical researchers who were in employment on 31 December 2009.Main outcome measuresWe constructed the co-authorship network in which nodes are the researchers, and links are established between any two researchers if they co-authored one or more articles. For each researcher, we recorded the position held in the co-authorship network and in the bylines of all articles published in each three-year interval and calculated the number of citations these articles accrued until January 2013. We estimated maximum likelihood negative binomial panel regression models.ResultsOur analysis suggests that collaboration sustained success, yet excessive co-authorship did not. Last positions in non-alphabetised bylines were beneficial for higher academic ranks but not for junior ones. A professor could witness a 20.57% increase in the expected citation count if last-listed non-alphabetically in one additional publication; yet, a lecturer suffered from a 13.04% reduction. First positions in alphabetised bylines were positively associated with performance for junior academics only. A lecturer could experience a 8.78% increase in the expected citation count if first-listed alphabetically in one additional publication. While junior researchers amplified success when brokering among otherwise disconnected collaborators, senior researchers prospered from socially cohesive networks, rich in third-party relationships.ConclusionsThese results help biomedical scientists shape successful careers and research institutions develop effective assessment and recruitment policies that will ultimately sustain the quality of biomedical research and patient care. |
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