Want to Succeed in Academia? Build a Network Beyond Your Co-Authors
Science is an extremely collaborative process. As a whole, formal and informal connections are vital to a scholar’s academic success, but is one type of collaboration more crucial than the other? Sandra González-Bailón and colleagues analyzed the ‘thank you’ notes in 129,750 political science journal articles and found that informal connections between authors were more predictive of higher productivity and impact than formal connections.
