How are collaboration and productivity correlated at various career stages of scientists?
How are collaboration and productivity correlated at various career stages of scientists?
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DOI：
10.1007/s11192-014-1323-6
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发表时间：
2014-11-01
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影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Liu, Zeyuan
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作者：
Hu, Zhigang;Chen, Chaomei;Liu, Zeyuan
合作被认为对研究人员的生产力有影响。然而，协作的影响取决于学科、协作模式和协作者的性格等因素。此外，在不同的职业阶段，例如科学家的成长或成才阶段，协作的规模和范围不同，对生产力的影响也不同。在本文中，我们研究了有机化学、病毒学、数学和计算机科学这四个学科中的协作与生产力之间的关系。我们的研究发现，生产力一般与协作相关，但这种相关性可能是正相关，也可能是负相关，具体取决于衡量协作的哪个方面，即协作的规模或范围。随着科学家个体在其职业生涯的不同阶段的进步，这种相关性变得更强。此外，有机化学和病毒学等实验学科比数学和计算机科学等理论学科表现出更强的相关系数。
Collaboration is believed to be influential on researchers' productivity. However, the impact of collaboration relies on factors such as disciplines, collaboration patterns, and collaborators' characters. In addition, at different career stages, such as the growth or the establishment career stages of scientists, collaboration is different in scale and scope, and its effect on productivity varies. In this paper, we study the relationships between collaboration and productivity in four disciplines, Organic Chemistry, Virology, Mathematics and Computer Science. Our studyfound that the productivity is correlated with collaboration in general, but the correlation could be positive or negative on the basis of which aspect of collaboration to measure, i.e., the scale or scope of the collaboration. The correlation becomes stronger as individual scientists progress through various stages of their career. Furthermore, experimental disciplines, such as Organic Chemistry and Virology, have shown stronger correlation coefficients than theoretical ones such as Mathematics and Computer Science.