Are Two (or Three or Four … or Nine) Heads Better than One? Collaboration, Multidisciplinarity, and Publishability

Although collaborative research has become much more common in the social sciences, including political science, little is known about the consequences of collaboration. This article uses papers submitted to the American Political Science Review to assess whether the widely acknowledged benefits of...

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Published in:PS, political science & politics political science & politics, 2009-07, Vol.42 (3), p.507-512
Main Author: Sigelman, Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Discourse
Authorship attribution
Collaboration
Collaborative Writing
Confidence intervals
Cooperation
Correlation
Costs
Evaluation Criteria
Evidence
Faculty Publishing
Intellectual Disciplines
Interdisciplinary Approach
International politics
Joint authorship
Periodicals
Political economy
Political Science
Political sociology
Research Methodology
Research papers
Researchers
Resistance (Psychology)
Skills
Social Psychology
Social Sciences
Social Scientists
Sociology
Success
THE PROFESSION
Working papers
Writing for Publication
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Summary:Although collaborative research has become much more common in the social sciences, including political science, little is known about the consequences of collaboration. This article uses papers submitted to the American Political Science Review to assess whether the widely acknowledged benefits of collaboration produced papers that were more likely to be accepted for publication. The results indicate that collaboration per se made little or no difference, but that the disciplinary configuration of the authors did result in differences in the success of these submissions.
ISSN:1049-0965
1537-5935
DOI:10.1017/S1049096509090817