The Rise of Co-Authorship in Social Work Scholarship
A Longitudinal Study of Collaboration and Article Quality, 1989–2013
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10898462 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bryan G Victor (0000-0002-2092-912X, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA, corresponding author), David R Hodges (0000-0001-6672-9070, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA), Brian E Perron (0009-0008-4865-451X, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA), Michael G Vaughn (0009-0003-1189-8610, Saint Louis University, St Louis, MO, USA), Christopher P Salas-Wright (0000-0001-7934-8293) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 2201-2216 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0045-3102 • E-ISSN: 1468-263X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjsw/bcw059 |
| OpenAlex | W2400758345 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 22 |
This study examined two issues critical to the social work research enterprise: (i) trends in authorship within disciplinary social work journals and (ii) the relationship between the number of authors and article quality, as measured via dissemination in high-impact journals. Data for the study were collected from original articles (N = 33,330) harvested from eighty disciplinary journals between 1989 and 2013. The results indicate the mean number of authors per article increased from 1.67 in 1989 to a high of 2.39 in 2013. The share of sole-authored articles dropped from roughly 60 per cent in the early 1990s to 35 per cent in 2013. Co-authorship became the norm in 2002, with the median number of authors increasing to two. Finally, the relationship between mean authorship per article and journal quality was significant (rs = 0.35). The results imply that tenure and promotion standards that privilege sole authorship may be outdated and that social workers seeking to create and disseminate scholarship in high-impact journals may benefit from developing collaborative networks
Discipline · Library science · Norm (philosophy) · Political science · Politics · Privilege (computing) · Promotion (chess) · Public relations · Publishing · Scholarly communication · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Community Development and Social Impact · Law · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Social Work Education and Practice
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| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |