https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsif.2020.0135
terça-feira, 28 de abril de 2020
Just published__"Scientific elite revisited: patterns of productivity, collaboration, authorship and impact"
"Throughout history, a relatively small number of individuals have made a
profound and lasting impact on science and society. Despite long-standing,
multi-disciplinary interests in understanding careers of elite scientists,
there have been limited attempts for a quantitative, career-level analysis. Here, we leverage a
comprehensive dataset we assembled, allowing us to trace the entire career
histories of nearly all Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry, and physiology
or medicine over the past century. We find that, although Nobel
laureates were energetic producers from the outset, producing works that garner
unusually high impact, their careers before winning the prize follow relatively
similar patterns to those of ordinary scientists, being characterized by hot
streaks and increasing reliance on collaborations. We also uncovered notable
variations along their careers, often associated with the Nobel Prize,
including shifting coauthorship structure in the prize-winning work, and a
significant but temporary dip in the impact of work they produce after winning
the Nobel Prize. Together, these results document quantitative patterns
governing the careers of scientific elites, offering an empirical basis for a
deeper understanding of the hallmarks of exceptional careers in science"
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsif.2020.0135
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsif.2020.0135