Imperial College London
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DrTimEvans

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Senior Lecturer
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 7837t.evans Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Mrs Graziela De Nadai-Sowrey +44 (0)20 7594 7843

 
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Location

 

609Huxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Patel:2019:10.1177/0141076819851666,
author = {Patel, VM and Panzarasa, P and Ashrafian, H and Evans, TS and Kirresh, A and Sevdalis, N and Darzi, A and Athanasiou, T},
doi = {10.1177/0141076819851666},
journal = {Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine},
pages = {245--257},
title = {Collaborative patterns, authorship practices and scientific success in biomedical research: a network analysis.},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0141076819851666},
volume = {112},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between biomedical researchers' collaborative and authorship practices and scientific success. DESIGN: Longitudinal quantitative analysis of individual researchers' careers over a nine-year period. SETTING: A leading biomedical research institution in the United Kingdom. PARTICIPANTS: Five hundred and twenty-five biomedical researchers who were in employment on 31 December 2009. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: We constructed the co-authorship network in which nodes are the researchers, and links are established between any two researchers if they co-authored one or more articles. For each researcher, we recorded the position held in the co-authorship network and in the bylines of all articles published in each three-year interval and calculated the number of citations these articles accrued until January 2013. We estimated maximum likelihood negative binomial panel regression models. RESULTS: Our analysis suggests that collaboration sustained success, yet excessive co-authorship did not. Last positions in non-alphabetised bylines were beneficial for higher academic ranks but not for junior ones. A professor could witness a 20.57% increase in the expected citation count if last-listed non-alphabetically in one additional publication; yet, a lecturer suffered from a 13.04% reduction. First positions in alphabetised bylines were positively associated with performance for junior academics only. A lecturer could experience a 8.78% increase in the expected citation count if first-listed alphabetically in one additional publication. While junior researchers amplified success when brokering among otherwise disconnected collaborators, senior researchers prospered from socially cohesive networks, rich in third-party relationships. CONCLUSIONS: These results help biomedical scientists shape successful careers and research institutions develop effective assessment and recruitment policies that will ultimately sustain the quality of biomedical r
AU  - Patel,VM
AU  - Panzarasa,P
AU  - Ashrafian,H
AU  - Evans,TS
AU  - Kirresh,A
AU  - Sevdalis,N
AU  - Darzi,A
AU  - Athanasiou,T
DO  - 10.1177/0141076819851666
EP  - 257
PY  - 2019///
SN  - 1758-1095
SP  - 245
TI  - Collaborative patterns, authorship practices and scientific success in biomedical research: a network analysis.
T2  - Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0141076819851666
UR  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31163118
UR  - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0141076819851666
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/71719
VL  - 112
ER  -
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