  Physics is one of the most successful endeavors in science. Being a
prototypic big science it also reflects the growing tendency for scientific
collaborations. Utilizing 250,000 papers from ArXiv.org a prepublishing
platform prevalent in Physics we construct large coauthorship networks to
investigate how individual network positions influence scientific success. In
this context, success is seen as getting a paper published in high impact
journals of physical subdisciplines as compared to not getting it published at
all or in rather peripheral journals only. To control the nested levels of
authors and papers, and to consider the time elapsing between working paper and
prominent journal publication we employ multilevel eventhistory models with
various network measures as covariates. Our results show that the maintenance
of even a moderate number of persistent ties is crucial for scientific success.
Also, even with low volumes of social capital Physicists who occupy brokerage
positions enhance their chances of articles in high impact journals
significantly. Surprisingly, inter(sub)disciplinary collaborations decrease the
probability of getting a paper published in specialized journals for almost all
positions.
