[Prevscilist] why collaborating with your peers and others on manuscripts can yield benefits

[Leslie Leve]

Hello CPSY and PREV students,

I thought you might find this recent NIH blog relevant to your professional research development. One take-home message of their analysis is that there was an association by which greater numbers of authors on a paper was associated with greater citation influence. In other words, more people read and reference our work when your paper has more authors. Although the NIH analysis cannot identify WHY this is the case, my own experience is that receiving diverse inputs from multiple collaborators can help you strengthen your arguments and help you better consider counter-factuals to make your hypotheses and analyses more rigorous and your conclusions more robust. Plus, it can be easier to write when you are part of a team with timelines and commitments to each other. Of course, this association could just be that there are more “hits” in a google search when people search by author name (since more author names to recognize), but nonetheless the association is present.

Leslie


https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2018/04/04/theres-no-i-in-team-assessing-impact-of-teams-receiving-nih-funding/



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Leslie Leve, PhD
Alumni Faculty Professor, College of Education
Associate Vice President for Research
Associate Director, Prevention Science Institute
University of Oregon

President, Society for Prevention Research

Phone: 541-346-9601
Web: https://education.uoregon.edu/users/leslie-leve



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