No citation advantage for monograph-based collaborations? |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Library and Information Science, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 10617, Taiwan;2. School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA;3. Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institute of Industrial Engineering, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 10617, Taiwan;1. Lappeenranta University of Technology, Department of Mathematics and Physics, P.O. Box 20, FI-53851 Lappeenranta, Finland;2. School of Industrial Engineering and Management, Lappeenranta University of Technology, P.O. Box 20, FI-53851 Lappeenranta, Finland;3. Faculty of Chemistry, Rzeszów University of Technology, Al. Powstańców Warszawy 6, 35-959 Rzeszów, Poland;4. Department of Process Engineering, ?ód? University of Technology, ?ód?, Poland;1. School of Information Management, Wuhan University, Luojia Shan, Wuhan, Hubei Province 430072, PR China;2. School of Information and Safety Engineering, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, 182# Nanhu Avenue, East Lake High-tech Development Zone, Wuhan 430073, PR China;1. Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam, Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands;2. Division for Science and Innovation Studies, Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society, Hofgartenstr. 8, 80539 Munich, Germany;3. Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstraße 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany;4. School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405-1901, United States |
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| Abstract: | It is widely believed that collaboration is advantageous in science, for example, with collaboratively written articles tending to attract more citations than solo articles and strong arguments for the value of interdisciplinary collaboration. Nevertheless, it is not known whether the same is true for research that produces books. This article tests whether co-authored scholarly monographs attract more citations than solo monographs using books published before 2011 from 30 categories in the Web of Science. The results show that solo monographs numerically dominate collaborative monographs, but give no evidence of a citation advantage for collaboration on monographs. In contrast, for nearly all these subjects (28 out of 30) there was a citation advantage for collaboratively produced journal articles. As a result, research managers and funders should not incentivise collaborative research in book-based subjects or in research that aims to produce monographs, but should allow the researchers themselves to freely decide whether to collaborate or not. |
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| Keywords: | Collaboration Citation impact Co-authorship Monographs Humanities Social sciences |
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