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Title | ||
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Achieving competitive advantage in academia through early career coauthorship with top scientists. |
Abstract | ||
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We quantify the long term impact that the coauthorship with established top-cited scientists has on the career of junior researchers in four different scientific disciplines. Through matched pair analysis, we find that junior researchers who coauthor work with top scientists enjoy a persistent competitive advantage throughout the rest of their careers with respect to peers with similar early career profiles. Such a competitive advantage materialises as a higher probability of repeatedly coauthoring work with top-cited scientists, and, ultimately, as a higher probability of becoming one. Notably, we find that the coauthorship with a top scientist has the strongest impact on the careers of junior researchers affiliated with less prestigious institutions. As a consequence, we argue that such institutions may hold vast amounts of untapped potential, which may be realised by improving access to top scientists. |
Year | Venue | DocType |
|---|---|---|
2019 | CoRR | Journal |
Volume | Citations | PageRank |
abs/1906.04619 | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 4 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weihua Li | 1 | 5 | 5.17 |
| Tomaso Aste | 2 | 57 | 11.62 |
| Fabio Caccioli | 3 | 23 | 4.15 |
| Giacomo Livan | 4 | 9 | 3.78 |