%0 Journal Article %1 keyhere %A Beaver, D. %A Rosen, R. %D 1978 %J Scientometrics %K diplomarbeit %N 1 %P 65--84 %T Studies in scientific collaboration %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02016840 %V 1 %X Abstract  From a historical and sociological perspective, this essay presents and develops the first comprehensive theory of scientific collaboration: collaborative scientific research, formally acknowledged by co-authorships of scientific papers, originated, developed, and continues to be practiced as a response to the professionalization of science. Following an overview of the origins and early history of collaboration in the 17th and 18th centuries, a study of the first professionalized scientific community, that of Napoleonic France, confirms that, as the theory predicts, collaboration is a typical research style associated with professionalization. In the early 19th century, virtually all joint research was performed by French scientists; collaborative research only appeared much later in England and Germany when they, too, underwent professionalization. That historical finding, which constitutes a puzzling anomaly for any other view of scientific teamwork, here conforms to theoretical expectation. Several other predictions of the theory are presented, to be taken-up in subsequent studies. ER -

@article{keyhere, abstract = {Abstract  From a historical and sociological perspective, this essay presents and develops the first comprehensive theory of scientific collaboration: collaborative scientific research, formally acknowledged by co-authorships of scientific papers, originated, developed, and continues to be practiced as a response to the professionalization of science. Following an overview of the origins and early history of collaboration in the 17th and 18th centuries, a study of the first professionalized scientific community, that of Napoleonic France, confirms that, as the theory predicts, collaboration is a typical research style associated with professionalization. In the early 19th century, virtually all joint research was performed by French scientists; collaborative research only appeared much later in England and Germany when they, too, underwent professionalization. That historical finding, which constitutes a puzzling anomaly for any other view of scientific teamwork, here conforms to theoretical expectation. Several other predictions of the theory are presented, to be taken-up in subsequent studies. ER -}, added-at = {2009-01-13T15:52:42.000+0100}, author = {Beaver, D. and Rosen, R.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/28deeb9ff27a139bc1e454ef6a75a2d37/dominikb1888}, description = {SpringerLink - Journal Article}, interhash = {fb3cfd732dbec476a33356034de77cae}, intrahash = {8deeb9ff27a139bc1e454ef6a75a2d37}, journal = {Scientometrics}, keywords = {diplomarbeit}, month = {#sep#}, number = 1, pages = {65--84}, timestamp = {2010-12-09T12:52:02.000+0100}, title = {Studies in scientific collaboration}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02016840}, volume = 1, year = 1978 }