ICPS
2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019
Optimal Foraging for Citations: Striving for Autonomy, Competence, and Social Relatedness in Publishing Scientists
- Martin Tomasik
University of Zurich - Martin Tomasik
University of Witten/Herdecke - Lenia Bahmann
University of Witten/Herdecke - Thomas Ostermann
University of Witten/Herdecke - Schuster Reinhard
University of Luebeck
Abstract
Ethological models of optimal foraging are successfully applied on 26.796 publications of N = 611 faculty members. We calculate the “optimal intake point” in terms of the journal IF (proxy for competence), the authors’ position in the author list (proxy for autonomy), and the number of coauthors (proxy for relatedness).
Motivation
