Co-authorship and the output of academic economists

Hollis, Aidan

doi:10.1016/s0927-5371(01)00041-0

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“…Partnerships between universities and public sector organisations or the private sector are well established and have been shown to benefit both parties including students. Buys & Bursnall (2007) argue that these benefits can include new insights and learning, better informed community practice, career enhancement for both the students and the facilitators, improvement in the quality of teaching and learning, additional funding and more frequent and higher-quality publications (Davies, 1996;Landry & Amara, 1998;Kellet & Goldstein, 1999;Mead et al, 1999;Amabile et al, 2001;Hollis, 2001). …”

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Successful partnerships with third sector organisations to enhance the healthcare student experience: A partnership evaluation

Bell¹,

Tanner²,

Rutty³

et al. 2015

Nurse Education Today

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Successful partnerships with third sector organisations to enhance the healthcare student experience: A partnership evaluation

Bell¹,

Tanner²,

Rutty³

et al. 2015

Nurse Education Today

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“…The authors derive the result that "an alphabetical name ordering will exist as a norm in a noncooperative game with self-interested agents" (Engers et al, 1999, p. 881). Past empirical studies have examined the production of scientific knowledge in economics (Lovell, 1973), patterns of co-authorship for individual economists (McDowell and Melvin (1983); Hollis (2001), and Hilmer and Hilmer (2005)), the development of co-authorship in certain economic subfields, 4 or, like most of the studies, the focus was set on the major economic journals (McDowell and Melvin (1983); Barnett et al (1988); Piette and Ross (1992); Hudson (1996), and Medoff (2007)). McDowell and Melvin (1983) develop a utility-based microeconomic model for an individual researcher and tested various hypotheses regarding the co-authorship of articles.…”

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Investigating JEEM Empirically: A Story of Co-Authorship and Collaboration

Schymura

Löschel²

2012

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Die Dis cus si on Pape rs die nen einer mög lichst schnel len Ver brei tung von neue ren For schungs arbei ten des ZEW. Die Bei trä ge lie gen in allei ni ger Ver ant wor tung der Auto ren und stel len nicht not wen di ger wei se die Mei nung des ZEW dar.Dis cus si on Papers are inten ded to make results of ZEW research prompt ly avai la ble to other eco no mists in order to encou ra ge dis cus si on and sug gesti ons for revi si ons. The aut hors are sole ly respon si ble for the con tents which do not neces sa ri ly repre sent the opi ni on of the ZEW. CO-AUTHORSHIP IN JEEM i EXECUTIVE SUMMARYSince the first decades of the 20 th century scholarly activity in economics has expanded rapidly. Indeed, the cumulative stock of journal articles in economics has doubled every fourteen years. A century ago, co-authored scientific articles in general and economic papers in particular were, in sharp contrast to the present, more the exception than the rule. A representative example of this, as we will show in this paper, is the evolution in articles published by the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, which is the leading journal in the field of environmental and resource economics.Numerous empirical studies have examined the production of scientific knowledge in economics, patterns of co-authorship for individual economists, the development of co-authorship in certain economic subfields or, like for most of the studies, the focus was set on the major economic journals. All such studies have found a rising incidence and extent of co-authorship in economic publications. The reasons for this are explored in this paper. However, surprisingly few studies to date have dealt specifically with environmental and resource economics, a subfield which has become ever more important in the economics profession. We hope to close this gap in the research, particularly because of the finding that intellectual collaboration is most important in environmental and resource economics. In this paper, we empirically investigate the first 36 years of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. Specifically, we analyze all articles published in this journal with respect to potentially relevant characteristics that could explain an author's decision to cooperate with another peer. We focus in this regard on the development of structural patterns of co-authorship, the increasing complexity of the discussed subject matter, publications by female economists in JEEM, and the incremental growth in international collaboration.Analyses of the structure of co-authorship are normally based on four hypotheses: The division of labor hypothesis, the opportunity cost of time hypothesis, the quality hypothesis, and the diversification hypothesis. We use our dataset to test these hypotheses, also add a fifth hypothesis that is new to the literature: the competition for external funding hypothesis. This hypothesis hinges on the following observation: As research has become more demanding in terms of both skill and financial expense, a...

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“…Avkiran (1997) finds that co-authored papers in finance are not significantly better rated than singleauthored ones. Hollis (2001), on the other hand, finds that co-authored papers tend to be more easily accepted and receive more citations, so that it could be argued that coauthorship leads to better publications. The same author stresses however that if "the publications are discounted by the number of authors, the relationship between research output and teamwork becomes negative".…”

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“…Hollis, 1996Hollis, , 2001). Yet much less is known about the effect of asymmetry between co-authors on the benefits that accrue to each "partner" of an article.…”

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The Distribution of Partnerships Benefits: Evidence from Co-Authorships in Economics Journals

Bidault

Hildebrand²

2012

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Academic partnerships are also very common and offer a fertile ground for investigation. Academic cooperation takes many different forms and results in a wide range of outcomes (Laband and Tollison, 2000). One of the most visible outcomes is co-authored publications (Melin and Persson, 1996). Nowadays, there is extensive data available about both the context of these partnerships as well as the quality of their outcome. This paper explores the determinants of the gain for authors who cooperate through co-authorship in the publication of academic articles. We distinguish between short-term benefits (i.e. the increase in citations of the co-authored article relative to the authors' previous publications) and the long-term ones (i.e. the increase in citations of articles subsequent to the coauthored piece). We find evidence that these benefits have different determinants for co-authors depending on their past experience. While co-authorship generally seems to benefit more the junior (younger and with a lower academic reputation) author, the senior partner can reduce the gap with a strong personal track record and co-authoring experience. Terms of use: Documents in

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Co-authorship and the output of academic economists

Cited by 169 publications

References 26 publications

Successful partnerships with third sector organisations to enhance the healthcare student experience: A partnership evaluation

Successful partnerships with third sector organisations to enhance the healthcare student experience: A partnership evaluation

Investigating JEEM Empirically: A Story of Co-Authorship and Collaboration

The Distribution of Partnerships Benefits: Evidence from Co-Authorships in Economics Journals

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