Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

The preeminence of ethnic diversity in scientific collaboration

  • Bedoor K. AlShebli,
  • Talal Rahwan,
  • Wei Lee Woon

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07634-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Diversity is believed to raise effectiveness and performance but it contains many aspects. Here the authors studied the relationship between research impact and five classes of diversity and found that ethnic diversity had the strongest correlation with scientific impact.