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Collaboration and the Quality of Research

Social Studies of SciencePublished 1 February 1980
Stanley Presser
Citations136
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score1.29
SNIP2.12

Abstract

Does collaboration improve the quality of scientific research? Editorial decision on papers submitted to a leading social psychology journal was cross-classified by number of authors. A small relationship in the predicted direction was obtained and it persisted in the face of two relevant controls.

Keywords

Decision Sciences