Quantification and Multiple Authorships in Political Science

Introduction to the Centennial Issue

“…One such measure is the proportion of co-authored articles. The dramatic growth of collaborative research in the social sciences in general (Endersby 1996;Laband and Tollison 2000;Moody 2004) and in political science in particular (Baum, Griffiths, Matthews, and Schrruble 1976;De Maio and Kushner 1981;Fisher, Cobane, Vander Ven, and Cullen 1998) is an oft-told tale, so the trend depicted in Figure 4 serves primarily as a reminder and extension of what has already been reported elsewhere. Multiple authorship remained a rarity in the Review until it entered a takeoff phase in the mid-to late 1950s and early 1960s.…”

How Many Authors Does It Take to Publish an Article? Trends and Patterns in Political Science

“…First, it marks a time of substantial change and "a period of great intellectual ferment in the discipline" (De Maio and Kushner 1981, 183). Finally, an end point at or near mid-century is a popular one for researchers (see, for example, De Maio and Kushner 1981;Hudson 1996;Miller, Tien, and Peebler 1996a). Finally, an end point at or near mid-century is a popular one for researchers (see, for example, De Maio and Kushner 1981;Hudson 1996;Miller, Tien, and Peebler 1996a).…”

Ranking multiple authors in criminal justice scholarship: An examination of underlying issues

“…Indeed, in the 1950s some scholars were predicting that the increase in experimental research in the social sciences would popularize collaborative research to levels near those found in the hard sciences (Smith 1958). DeMaio and Kushner (1981) provided some support to this finding, noting a direct positive correlation between quantitative research and collaboration. They argued that this affinity towards collaboration in quantitative research places qualitative researchers at a severe disadvantage in résumé building.…”