Title
Do mathematicians, economists and biomedical scientists trace large topics more strongly than physicists?
Abstract
•In choosing research topics, researchers are found to be largeness-tracing.•Chinese scholars trace large topics more severely than scholars from the USA, Germany and Japan.•Papers in top journals are relatively less largeness-tracing.•There is a positive correlation between the degree of largeness tracing and the features of papers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.joi.2017.04.004
Journal of Informetrics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Research choice,Matthew effect,Large topics
Computer science,Matthew effect,China,Mathematics education
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
11
2
1751-1577
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Menghui Li181.52
Liying Yang256.72
Huina Zhang300.34
Zhesi Shen4293.19
Chensheng Wu500.34
Jinshan Wu6237.62