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Co-publications in European Political Science Journals

Co-Publication in BJPS, PS, PVS

Co-publications are the most straightforward indicator of collaboration and linkage. As it turns out, co-publishing is much more common in the British Journal of Political Science than in Political Studies and Politische Vierteljahresschrift: whereas 44 per cent of all articles published in BJPS are multi-authored, the respective figures for PS and PVS are only 19 and 17 per cent. There is, however, a marked upward trend in co-publications. For all three journals, the average numbers of authors per article was below 1.2 in 1970. By 2007, this figure had risen to just below 1.4 in PVS and PS and up to 1.6 in BJPS. This development seems to reflect the increasing number of empirical analyses (which are frequently co-authored) in all journals and the relative dominance of this genre in BJPS. If we look at the authors, 1/3 of all scholars publishing in the PS and PVS, but 2/3 of the scholars publishing in BJPS are involved in some co-operation within the respective journal.

	BJPS	PS	PVS
Articles	833	1277	647
Authors	938	1206	594
Gini	0.261	0.199	0.202
%Authors with single article	76%	81%	81%
Co-authored articles	364 (44%)	246 (19%)	109 (17%)
Collaborating Authors	607 (65%)	439 (36%)	213 (36%)

However, these simple summary figures betray the striking differences between the German and the two British journals. These differences only become visible once we adopt a network perspective.