论文标题
为什么共同撰写的学术文章更加引用：更高质量或更大的受众？
Why are co-authored academic articles more cited: Higher quality or larger audience?
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论文摘要
合着的文章往往在许多学术领域被引用，但这是因为它们倾向于更高的质量，还是受众效果：通过多个作者网络提高意识？我们通过最大的调查来解决这一未知的研究，该调查是对作者数字是否与研究质量联系在一起的，使用专家同行质量判断，用于122,331个非评论期刊文章，由英国学者提交的2014 - 20年国家评估过程提交。 Spearman的作者数量与质量分数之间的相关性表明，健康，生活和物理科学方面的积极关联（0.2-0.4），但工程学和社会科学方面的弱或没有积极的关联。相比之下，我们发现艺术和人文学科几乎没有或没有任何关联，并且决策科学可能是负面的联系。这给出了相当确定的证据，表明至少在英国，更多的艺术和人文学术界的作者与大多数学术界的高质量期刊文章有关。团队规模和引文数量之间的积极关联在团队规模和质量之间几乎没有关联的领域也表明，受众效果或其他非质量因素会说明某些领域共同撰写文章的引文率更高。
Co-authored articles tend to be more cited in many academic fields, but is this because they tend to be higher quality or is it an audience effect: increased awareness through multiple author networks? We address this unknown with the largest investigation yet into whether author numbers associate with research quality, using expert peer quality judgements for 122,331 non-review journal articles submitted by UK academics for the 2014-20 national assessment process. Spearman correlations between the number of authors and the quality scores show moderately strong positive associations (0.2-0.4) in the health, life, and physical sciences, but weak or no positive associations in engineering, and social sciences. In contrast, we found little or no association in the arts and humanities, and a possible negative association for decision sciences. This gives reasonably conclusive evidence that greater numbers of authors associates with higher quality journal articles in the majority of academia outside the arts and humanities, at least for the UK. Positive associations between team size and citation counts in areas with little association between team size and quality also show that audience effects or other non-quality factors account for the higher citation rates of co-authored articles in some fields.
