Does the Winner Take it All? Increasing Inequality in Scientific Authorship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23729043 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Heiko Rauhut (0000-0002-1181-5534, University of Zurich), F Winter (0000-0002-4838-4504, University of Zurich), David Johann (0000-0002-8970-9686, University of Zurich) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 1-14 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118900772.etrds0459 |
| OpenAlex | W2905406100 |
| ISBN | 9781118900772 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
Scientific authorship has become a hot topic in the social sciences. We present three avenues addressing this topic from different perspectives to illustrate in which direction research on inequalities in the context of scientific authorship and academic publications may move. We draw on data from the Web of Science focusing on the field of sociology. We demonstrate that (i) the alphabetical order of co‐authors' names sends out an ambiguous signal about the actual contributions of each team member, (ii) attention is increasingly paid to a few contributions that are widely cited, and (iii) well‐connected authors tend to work together. In short, this essay suggests a rise in authorship inequalities regarding the attention authors and their articles receive. Sociology and related social sciences are arguably developing into academic winner‐take‐all markets.
Context (archaeology) · Data science · Economics · Epistemology · Field (mathematics) · Inequality · Order (exchange) · Social inequality · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · History · scientometrics and bibliometrics research · Wikis in Education and Collaboration
Evolution of the social network of scientific collaborations
What is research collaboration?
Coauthorship networks and patterns of scientific collaboration
The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge
The structure of scientific collaboration networks
Confirmation Bias
The Intellectual and Social Organization Of the Sciences
Cumulative Advantage as a Mechanism for Inequality
Factoring and weighting approaches to status scores and clique identification
The social construction of reality
Authorship Norms and Project Structures in Science
The Matthew Effect in Science, II
Structural Holes and Good Ideas
Power and Centrality
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |