  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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