Early coauthorship with top scientists predicts success in academic careers
- Submitting institution
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University College London
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 16239
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1038/s41467-019-13130-4
- Title of journal
- Nature Communications
- Article number
- ARTN 5170
- First page
- 5170
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2041-1723
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
- 12
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This paper demonstrates a fundamental mechanism through which junior academics can become highly impactful scientists. The study shows that coauthoring even a single paper with a “top scientist” (i.e., an author in the top 5% of cited scientist in a discipline) during the first three career years provides junior researchers with a long-term competitive advantage with respect to peers with similar early career profiles who do not have papers coauthored with top scientists. The paper has attracted considerable attention (Altmetric score > 1300), and has been covered by a number of news outlets, including Times Higher Education.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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