Multi-university research teams: shifting impact, geography, and stratification in science.
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Output type: Journal article
Author list: Jones, Wuchty, Uzzi
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Publication year: 2008
Volume number: 322
Issue number: 5905
Start page: 1259
End page: 62
Number of pages: -1196
ISSN: 0036-8075
eISSN: 1095-9203
Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)
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Open access status: bronze
Full text URL: https://www.science.org/cms/asset/db293714-adbf-493c-ae96-1c2cb5da6123/pap.pdf
Abstract
This paper demonstrates that teamwork in science increasingly spans university boundaries, a dramatic shift in knowledge production that generalizes across virtually all fields of science, engineering, and social science. Moreover, elite universities play a dominant role in this shift. By examining 4.2 million papers published over three decades, we found that multi-university collaborations (i) are the fastest growing type of authorship structure, (ii) produce the highest-impact papers when they include a top-tier university, and (iii) are increasingly stratified by in-group university rank. Despite the rising frequency of research that crosses university boundaries, the intensification of social stratification in multi-university collaborations suggests a concentration of the production of scientific knowledge in fewer rather than more centers of high-impact science.
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