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Prolific philosophy authors’ preferences regarding scientific collaboration, journal levels, and author role

Chang, Yu-Wei; Yeh, Hsuan-Tung

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Title
Prolific philosophy authors’ preferences regarding scientific collaboration, journal levels, and author role
Author(s)
  • Chang, Yu-Wei
  • Yeh, Hsuan-Tung
Issue Date
2023-03-13
Keyword(s)
  • Prolific authors
  • Coauthorship
  • Journal level and Philosophy
Abstract
This study explored whether prolific philosophy researchers preferred to collaborate with other researchers to increase their productivity without focusing on their author role or the level of prestige of journals selected for submis-sion. By analyzing articles published by the 100 most prolific authors in terms of the number of articles published in philosophy journals between 2011 and 2020, this study confirmed that most philosophy researchers tend-ed not to perform collaborative research, with 56.5% of the 3,773 analyzed articles being single-authored articles. Furthermore, only 14 of the 100 most prolific authors had not published single-authored articles. Regarding author role preference, primary-authored articles accounted for 71.4%, and corre-sponding-authored articles accounted for 72.4%. Excluding the considerable proportion of single-authored articles, which led to a high proportion of pri-mary- and corresponding-authored articles, these productive authors tended not to be primary or corresponding authors in 1,642 coauthored articles, with 34.4% for primary-authored articles and 36.6% for corresponding-authored articles. Moreover, not all the authors were affiliated with philosophy-related institutes; specifically, 28 of the authors primarily worked within psycholog-ical fields and had a higher interest in coauthorship and journals with higher levels of prestige than the 72 philosophy authors. Finally, both the philoso-phy authors and the other authors primarily attempted publication in Q1-level journals.
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iSchools
Series/Report Name or Number
iConference 2023 Proceedings
Type of Resource
  • Other
  • text
Genre of Resource
Conference Poster
Language
eng
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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/117350
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Copyright 2023 is held by Yu-Wei Chang and Hsuan-Tung Yeh. Copyright permissions, when appropriate, must be obtained directly from the authors.

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