Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Untangling the network effects of productivity and prominence among scientists

  • Weihua Li,
  • Sam Zhang,
  • Zhiming Zheng,
  • Skyler J. Cranmer,
  • Aaron Clauset

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32604-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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While inequalities in science are common, most efforts to understand them treat scientists as isolated individuals, ignoring the network effects of collaboration. Here, the authors develop models that untangle the network effects of productivity and prominence of individual scientists from their collaboration networks.