Author-team diversity and the impact of scientific publications: Evidence from physics research at a national science lab

Hinnant, Charles C.; Stvilia, Besiki; Wu, Shuheng; Worrall, Adam; Burnett, Gary; Burnett, Kathleen; Kazmer, Michelle M.; Marty, Paul F.

doi:10.1016/j.lisr.2012.03.001

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“…According to Hinnant et al. (, p. 250) ‘[…] the role of seniority within many academic disciplines is thought to translate into higher levels of research productivity and, ultimately, a greater level of impact of the research outcomes themselves’. Therefore, status diversity is a distinctive feature of the more solid and integrated teams, in which there is a high level of communication and interaction among all the members (Martín‐Sempere et al., ; Stvilia et al., ).…”

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How diversity contributes to academic research teams performance

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The objective of this paper is to analyse how the job‐related diversity in academic research teams influences their scientific performance. To achieve that objective, an empirical study of a university's research teams was carried out during the years 2006–2009. The results reflect a non‐significant effect of functional diversity on research teams' performance, whereas status diversity affects in a positive and significant way. However, educational diversity has a significant negative impact when a certain threshold is exceeded. The effect of institutional diversity presents an inverted U‐shaped relation with the number of published articles by the research teams. The results reveal that the relationship between diversity and research performance may not be a simple and direct one because its effect could depend on the organisational context and the type of diversity attributes.

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“…In the literature, the relationship between scientific collaboration and academic rank has primarily been studied through comparing the situations of academics and young nonfaculty researchers (Hinnant et al, 2012;Stvilia et al, 2011;Hagstrom, 1965), or those of tenured and untenured researchers (Fox and Faver, 1984;Bozeman and Gaughan, 2011). Still, some studies have indicated that variation in forms of collaboration can develop among the different ranks of tenured researchers, since the circumstances of full, associate assistant professorship give rise to specific and distinct motivations in this regard (Rivellini et al, 2006;Lee and Bozeman, 2005).…”

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Variation in research collaboration patterns across academic ranks

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The ability to activate and manage effective collaborations is becoming an\ud increasingly important criteria in policies on academic career advancement. The rise of such policies leads to development of indicators that permit measurement of the propensity to collaborate for academics of different ranks, and to examine the role of several variables in collaboration, first among these being the researchers’ disciplines. In this work we apply\ud an innovative bibliometric approach based on individual propensity for collaboration to measure the differences in propensity across academic ranks, by discipline and for choice of collaboration forms—intramural, extramural domestic and international. The analysis is based on the scientific production of Italian academics for the period 2006–2010, totaling over 200,000 publications indexed in Web of Science. It shows that assistant professors register a propensity for intramural collaboration that is clearly greater than for professors of higher ranks. Vice versa, the higher ranks, but not quite so clearly, register greater propensity to collaborate at the international level

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“…The original study employed direct observations, semi-structured interviews, citation analysis, and social network analysis [6,15]. This study used in-depth semi-structured interviews of key informants to better explore the data curation practices of collaboration teams within the CMP community at the NHMFL.…”

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Data curation in scientific teams

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The advent of big science has brought a dramatic increase in the amount of data generated as part of scientific investigation. The ability to capture and prepare such data for reuse has brought about an increased interest in data curation practices within scientific fields and venues such as national laboratories. This study employs semi-structured interviews with key scientists at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory to explore data management, curation, and sharing practices within a condensed matter physics community. Findings indicate that condensed matter physics is a highly varied field. The field's work practices and reward structures may impede the development and implementation of highly formalized curation policies focused on sharing data within the broader community. This study is an extension of a larger mixed-methods study to examine the lifecycles of virtual teams and will serve as a foundation for a larger survey of the lab's user community.

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Author-team diversity and the impact of scientific publications: Evidence from physics research at a national science lab

Cited by 24 publications

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How diversity contributes to academic research teams performance

How diversity contributes to academic research teams performance

Variation in research collaboration patterns across academic ranks

Data curation in scientific teams

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