Paper Info
Title
Individual focus and knowledge contribution
Abstract
Before contributing new knowledge, individuals must attain requisite background knowledge or skills through schooling, training, practice, and experience. Given limited time, individuals often choose either to focus on few areas, where they build deep expertise, or to delve less deeply and distribute their attention and efforts across several areas. In this paper we measure the relationship between the narrowness of focus and the quality of contribution across a range of both traditional and recent knowledge sharing media, including scholarly articles, patents, Wikipedia, and online question and answer forums. Across all systems, we observe a small but significant positive correlation between focus and quality.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.5210/fm.v15i3.2841
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
focus,wikipedia
Knowledge sharing,Computer science,Knowledge management,Positive correlation,Multimedia
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
abs/1002.0
First Monday 15(3), 1 March 2010
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.49
4
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lada A. Adamic15480555.09
Xiao Wei2525.18
Jiang Yang347330.30
Sean Gerrish473633.19
Kevin Kyung Nam51619.26
Gavin S. Clarkson660.49