Standing on the shoulders of giants: the effect of outstanding scientists on young collaborators’ careers

Mengjiao Qi, An Zeng (), Menghui Li, Ying Fan () and Zengru Di
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Mengjiao Qi: Beijing Normal University
An Zeng: Beijing Normal University
Menghui Li: Beijing Institute of Science and Technology Intelligence
Ying Fan: Beijing Normal University
Zengru Di: Beijing Normal University

Scientometrics, 2017, vol. 111, issue 3, No 30, 1839-1850

Abstract: Abstract Collaboration is one of the key features in scientific research. With more and more knowledge accumulated in each discipline, individual researcher can only be an expert in some specific areas. As such, there are more and more multi-author papers nowadays. Many works in scientometrics have been devoted to analyze the structure of collaboration networks. However, how the collaboration impacts an author’s future career is much less studied in the literature. In this paper, we provide empirical evidence with American Physical Society data showing that collaboration with outstanding scientists (measured by their total citation) will significantly improve young researchers’ career. Interestingly, this effect is strongly nonlinear and subject to a power function with an exponent

Keywords: Career evolution; Scientific collaboration; Young scholar (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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