Collaborative patterns, authorship practices and scientific success in biomedical research: a network analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the relationship between biomedical researchers' collaborative and authorship practices and scientific success.

Design

Longitudinal quantitative analysis of individual researchers' careers over a nine-year period.

Setting

A leading biomedical research institution in the United Kingdom.

Participants

Five hundred and twenty-five biomedical researchers who were in employment on 31 December 2009.

Main outcome measures

We 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 inte

SUBMITTER: Patel VM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6552387 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature