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Title | ||
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Do Mathematicians, Economists and Biomedical Scientists Trace Hot Topics More Strongly Than Physicists? |
Abstract | ||
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In this work, we extend our previous work on hotness tracing among physicists to other fields, including mathematics, economics and biomedical science. Overall, the results confirm our previous discovery, indicating that scientists in all these fields trace hot topics. Surprisingly, however, it seems that researchers in mathematics tend to be more likely to trace hot topics than those in the other fields. We also find that on average, papers in top journals are less hotness-driven. We compare researchers from the USA, Germany, Japan and China and find that Chinese researchers exhibit consistently larger exponents, indicating that in all these fields, Chinese researchers trace hot topics more strongly than others. Further correlation analyses between the degree of hotness tracing and the numbers of authors, affiliations and references per paper reveal positive correlations -- papers with more authors, affiliations or references are likely to be more hotness-driven, with several interesting and noteworthy exceptions: in economics, papers with more references are not necessary more hotness-driven, and the same is true of papers with more authors in biomedical science. We believe that these empirical discoveries may be valuable to science policy-makers. |
Year | Venue | DocType |
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2016 | CoRR | Journal |
Volume | Citations | PageRank |
abs/1609.00448 | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
12 | 5 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Menghui Li | 1 | 19 | 4.07 |
| Liying Yang | 2 | 5 | 6.72 |
| Chensheng Wu | 3 | 0 | 0.68 |
| Zhesi Shen | 4 | 29 | 3.19 |
| Jinshan Wu | 5 | 23 | 7.62 |