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Objectives. To determine how frequently disciplinary terminology moves from discipline to discipline and to measure how long it takes for a term to be established in another discipline. Methods. sociology and political science as case studies, core concepts in each discipline are identified and their usage in the home and the other (adoptive) discipline assessed through a content analysis of three top journals in each field. Results. Movement of concepts between the two disciplines is sparse, though political science is more of a borrower from sociology than the reverse. Conclusions. leading disciplinary outlets over the past century, and there seems to be little reason to expect major departures from the patterns documented here. Adapted from the source document.

ABSTRACTAlthough collaborative research has become much more common in the social sciences, including political science, little is known about the consequences of collaboration. This article uses papers submitted to the American Political Science Review to assess whether the widely acknowledged benefits of collaboration produced papers that were more likely to be accepted for publication. The results indicate that collaboration per se made little or no difference, but that the disciplinary configuration of the authors did result in differences in the success of these submissions.

An increase in the number of political science papers that are
presented at multiple academic conferences does not, as Nelson
Dometrius recognizes, constitute one of the major existential crises
of the twenty-first century. Indeed, I doubt that it would even make
it onto anyone's list of the top hundred issues currently
confronting the discipline of political science. Nonetheless, it
does warrant more attention than it has received in the past (which,
insofar as I am aware, is approximately none at all).

My last two annual reports sounded a theme of continuity from year to
year in the number and variety of the papers that we received and the
articles that we published and in the pace of our review process. This
year, too, many of these elements have differed only slightly from those
of past years. In some important respects, though, 2005–2006 has
been a significant departure from the years immediately preceding it. For
one thing, as detailed below, during 2005–2006 we received a record
number of submissions. For another, while we were considering more papers
than ever before, we were simultaneously faced with the self-imposed
challenge of conducting a separate review process for the November 2006
centennial issue of the Review.

This issue completes the one-hundredth volume of the
Review, the inaugural issue of which was
published in November 1906. To mark this occasion, two years ago we began
planning a centennial observance on the theme of "the evolution of political
science." My collaborator in this project, as the Co-Editor of what evolved
into an entire issue of the Review, has been
Editorial Board member M. Elizabeth Sanders, who joined me in overseeing the
review and selection processes.

In any scholarly field, some works are widely acknowledged as classics,
whereas the rest—indeed, the great majority—are little noted nor long
remembered. Indeed, according to the "Iron Law of Important Articles," the
number of significant articles increases only to the extent of the square
root of the number of published articles (Holub, Tappeiner, and Eberharter
1991). It follows that as a research literature grows, important articles
constitute an ever-decreasing proportion of the total output.