Quantifying the evolution of individual scientific impact
Abstract
Despite the frequent use of numerous quantitative indicators to gauge the professional impact of a scientist, little is known about how scientific impact emerges and evolves in time. Here, we quantify the changes in impact and productivity throughout a career in science, finding that impact, as measured by influential publications, is distributed randomly within a scientist's sequence of publications. This random-impact rule allows us to...
Paper Details
Title
Quantifying the evolution of individual scientific impact
Published Date
Nov 4, 2016
Journal
Volume
354
Issue
6312
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