关键词: 人文社科领域, 高影响力作者, 有组织科研合作, 有组织科研

Abstract:

[Purpose/Significance] This study explores the characteristics of organized research collaboration among humanities and social sciences (HSS) researchers and their impact on paper output, aiming to optimize such collaboration and provide theoretical and practical support for enhancing the effectiveness of organized research in HSS. [Method/Process] We selected 163 high-impact scholars serving as chief investigators of Major Project supported by the National Social Science Fundation of China from 2015 to 2021 as the research subjects, and used their papers funded by these projects and published in the Chinese key journals as the data source. Nine explanatory variables (e.g., co-authorship degree, co-authorship rate) and five explained variables (e.g., first-author publication volume, relative publication volume) were designed. Factor analysis was employed to reduce dimensionality and extract three common factors of organized research collaboration: "collaboration stability and intensity," "collaboration breadth and depth," and "collaboration diversity." Combined with control variables such as gender, educational background, and administrative positions, Spearman correlation analysis and multiple linear regression models were used to empirically test the impact of organized research collaboration characteristics on academic paper output. [Results/Conclusions] Under the organized research paradigm: 1) Organized research collaboration characteristics' common factors exhibit a significant inhibiting effect on the quantity of academic paper output; 2) Organized research collaboration characteristics demonstrate a significant enhancing effect on the proportion of high-impact papers; 3) Individual characteristics show no significant effect on academic paper output. Corresponding implications are drawn from the perspective of promoting high-quality development of organized research collaboration in HSS. We put forward some suggestions. Research management institutions should promote interdisciplinary and cross-domain collaborative innovation, optimize research evaluation to guide the quality of cooperation, and strengthen regional collaboration and international cooperation networks. Research institutions should enhance the development and management of research teams, intensify academic exchanges and capacity training, and optimize the allocation of research resources. Researchers should dynamically adjust their cooperation strategies, make good use of digital tools to streamline cooperation processes, balance administrative duties with academic outputs, and attach importance to the training of young scholars.

Key words: Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), high-impact authors, organized research collaboration, organized research