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Despite extensive research on scientific disruption, two questions remain: why disruption has declined amid growing knowledge, and why disruptive work receives fewer and delayed citations. One way to address these questions is to identify…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-11 Xiaoyao Yu , Talal Rahwan , Tao Jia

Interdisciplinary research increasingly fuels innovation, and is considered to be a key to tomorrow breakthrough. Yet little is known about whether interdisciplinary research manifests delayed impact. Here, we use the time to reach the…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Yang Zhang , Yang Wang , Haifeng Du , Shlomo Havlin

We propose a new citation model which builds on the existing models that explicitly or implicitly include "direct" and "indirect" (learning about a cited paper's existence from references in another paper) citation mechanisms. Our model…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Staša Milojević

The features of collaboration patterns are often considered to be different from discipline to discipline. Meanwhile, collaborating among disciplines is an obvious feature emerged in modern scientific research, which incubates several…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-03-22 Zheng Xie , Miao Li , Jianping Li , Xiaojun Duan , Zhenzheng Ouyang

It is important to explore how scientists decide their research agenda and the corresponding consequences, as their decisions collectively shape contemporary science. There are studies focusing on the overall performance of individuals with…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-15 Xiaoyao Yu , Boleslaw K. Szymanski , Tao Jia

The COVID-19 pandemic shifted academic collaboration from in-person to remote interactions. This study explores, for the first time, the effects on scientific collaborations and impact of such a shift, comparing research output before,…

The combination of diverse, pre-existing knowledge is a common explanation for scientific breakthroughs. However, a paradox exists: while scientific output and the potential for such recombination have grown exponentially, the rate of…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Linzhuo Li , Yiling Lin , Lingfei Wu

The practice of collaboration, and particularly international collaboration, is becoming ever more widespread in scientific research, and is likewise receiving greater interest and stimulus from policy-makers. However, the relation between…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Giovanni Abramo , Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo , Marco Solazzi

Despite persistent efforts to understand the dynamics of creativity of scientists over careers in terms of productivity, impact, and prize, little is known about the dynamics of scientists' disruptive efforts that affect individual academic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-05-28 Shuang Zhang , Feifan Liu , Haoxiang Xia

The exponentially growing number of scientific papers stimulates a discussion on the interplay between quantity and quality in science. In particular, one may wonder which publication strategy may offer more chances of success: publishing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-05-15 Sirag Erkol , Satyaki Sikdar , Filippo Radicchi , Santo Fortunato

Research institutions provide the infrastructure for scientific discovery, yet their role in the production of knowledge is not well characterized. To address this gap, we analyze interactions of researchers within and between institutions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-27 Keith A. Burghardt , Zihao He , Allon G. Percus , Kristina Lerman

Gender diversity enhances research by bringing diverse perspectives and innovative approaches. It ensures equitable solutions that address the needs of diverse populations. However, gender disparity persists in research where women remain…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Shamse Tasnim Cynthia , Saikat Mondal , Joy Krishan Das , Banani Roy

Although the computer science community successfully harnessed exponential increases in computer performance to drive societal and economic change, the exponential growth in publications is proving harder to accommodate. To gain a deeper…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Stephen M. Blackburn , Kathryn S. McKinley , Lexing Xie

Academic migration is the change of host institution by a researcher, typically aimed at achieving a stronger research profile. Scientific features such as the number of collaborations, the productivity and its research impact tend to be…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Pavlos Paraskevopoulos , Chiara Boldrini , Andrea Passarella , Marco Conti

Scientific novelty drives the efforts to invent new vaccines and solutions during the pandemic. First-time collaboration and international collaboration are two pivotal channels to expand teams' search activities for a broader scope of…

Scientific novelty drives advances at the research frontier, yet it is also associated with heightened uncertainty and potential resistance from incumbent paradigms, leading to complex patterns of scientific impact. Prior studies have…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yi Zhao , Yang Chenggang , Yuzhuo Wang , Tong Bao , Zhang Heng , Chengzhi Zhang

This paper is about the possible negative impact of excessive collaboration on the performance of top employees. With the rise of participatory culture and developments in communications technology, management practices require greater…

Applications · Statistics 2020-04-29 Anna Velyka , Marco Guerzoni

As political polarization in the United States continues to rise, the question of whether polarized individuals can fruitfully cooperate becomes pressing. Although diversity of individual perspectives typically leads to superior team…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Feng Shi , Misha Teplitskiy , Eamon Duede , James Evans

Scientific investigation procedures have been evolving to follow an ever-changing cultural landscape, the sophistication of the technology available and an ever-growing knowledge base. This continuous evolution brought investigation…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Jorge Faleiro

Calls to make scientific research more open have gained traction with a range of societal stakeholders. Open Science practices include but are not limited to the early sharing of results via preprints and openly sharing outputs such as data…