The structure of collaboration is known to be of great importance for the success of scientific endeavors. In particular, various types of social capital employed in co-authored work and projects bridging disciplinary boundaries have attracted researchers' interest. Almost all previous studies, however, use samples with an inherent survivor bias, i.e., they focus on papers that have already been published. In contrast, our article examines the chances for getting a working paper published by using a unique dataset of 245,000 papers uploaded to arXiv. ArXiv is a popular preprint platform in Physics which allows us to construct a co-authorship network from which we can derive different types of social capital and interdisciplinary teamwork. To emphasize the 'normal case' of community-specific standards of excellence, we assess publications in Physics' high impact journals as success. Utilizing multilevel event history models, our results reveal that already a moderate number of persistent collaborations spanning at least two years is the most important social antecedent of getting a manuscript published successfully. In contrast, inter- and subdisciplinary collaborations decrease the probability of publishing in an eminent journal in Physics, which can only partially be mitigated by scientists' social capital.

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被成功发布还是被 arXived？社会资本和跨学科合作对于在物理学高影响力期刊上发表的重要性

众所周知，合作的结构对于科学努力的成功非常重要。特别是，在跨越学科界限的合着工作和项目中使用的各种社会资本引起了研究人员的兴趣。然而，几乎所有以前的研究都使用具有固有幸存者偏差的样本，即他们关注已经发表的论文。相比之下，我们的文章通过使用上传到 arXiv 的 245,000 篇论文的独特数据集来研究发表工作论文的机会。ArXiv 是物理学中一个流行的预印平台，它使我们能够构建一个合着网络，从中我们可以得出不同类型的社会资本和跨学科团队合作。为了强调特定于社区的卓越标准的“正常情况”，我们将《物理学》高影响力期刊上的出版物评估为成功。利用多级事件历史模型，我们的结果表明，至少两年的持续合作数量已经适中，是成功发表手稿的最重要的社会先决条件。相比之下，跨学科和跨学科合作降低了在物理学知名期刊上发表的可能性，而科学家的社会资本只能部分缓解这种情况。