Collaboration and the Quality of Research

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1980, Pages 95-101

  Presser, Stanley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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EID: 84925923905     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030631278001000105     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. See, for example, Harriet Zuckerman and Robert K. Merton, ‘Age, Aging, and Age Structure in Science’, in Norman Storer (ed.), The Sociology of Science (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1973), 547.
2. Donald Pelz and Donald Pelz, Scientists in Organizations (New York: Wiley, 1966), 52.
3. Lowell Hargens, ‘Relations Between Work Habits, Research Technologies, and Eminence in Science’, Sociology of Work and Occupations, Vol. 5 (1978), 99.
4. All values of chi-square reported in this paper are likelihood-ratio statistics derived with the computer programme ECTA. See Leo Goodman, ‘The Analysis of Multidimensional Contingency Tables: Stepwise Procedures and Direct Estimation Methods for Building Models for Multiple Classifications’, Technometrics, Vol. 13 (1971), 33-61.
5. For a discussion of the effects of academic environment in major versus minor universities, see Diana Crane, ‘Scientists at Major and Minor Universities: A Study of Productivity and Recognition’, American Sociological Review, Vol. 30 (1965), 699-714.
6. Although their analysis of manuscripts submitted to The Physical Review excludes multiple-authored papers, Zuckerman and Merton note that such papers had an acceptance rate of over 95 percent. This compared with 80 percent for single-authored papers. See Harriet Zuckerman and Robert Merton, ‘Institutionalized Patterns of Evaluation in Science’, in Storer (ed.), American Sociological Review, Vol. 30 (1965) note 1, 476-78.