Author, as appears in the article.: Krauss, Alexander; Danus, Lluis; Sales-Pardo, Marta
Department: Enginyeria Química
URV's Author/s: Danús Amengual, Lluís / Sales Pardo, Marta
Keywords: H-index teams productivity
Abstract: Can we help predict the future impact of researchers using early-career factors? We analyze early-career factors of the world's 100 most prominent researchers across 8 scientific fields and identify four key drivers in researchers' initial career: working at a top 25 ranked university, publishing a paper in a top 5 ranked journal, publishing most papers in top quartile (high-impact) journals and co-authoring with other prominent researchers in their field. We find that over 95% of prominent researchers across multiple fields had at least one of these four features in the first 5 years of their career. We find that the most prominent scientists who had an early career advantage in terms of citations and h-index are more likely to have had all four features, and that this advantage persists throughout their career after 10, 15 and 20 years. Our findings show that these few early-career factors help predict researchers' impact later in their careers. Our research thus points to the need to enhance fairness and career mobility among scientists who have not had a jump start early on.© 2023. The Author(s).
Thematic Areas: Zootecnia / recursos pesqueiros Saúde coletiva Química Psicología Odontología Nutrição Multidisciplinary sciences Multidisciplinary Medicina veterinaria Medicina iii Medicina ii Medicina i Materiais Matemática / probabilidade e estatística Letras / linguística Interdisciplinar Geografía Geociências Farmacia Engenharias iv Engenharias iii Engenharias ii Enfermagem Educação física Educação Economia Ciências biológicas iii Ciências biológicas ii Ciências biológicas i Ciências ambientais Ciências agrárias i Ciência de alimentos Ciência da computação Biotecnología Biodiversidade Astronomia / física
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: lluis.danus@estudiants.urv.cat lluis.danus@estudiants.urv.cat marta.sales@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0001-6242-6486 0000-0001-6242-6486 0000-0002-8140-6525
Record's date: 2024-10-19
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-46050-x
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Scientific Reports. 13 (1): 18794-18794
APA: Krauss, Alexander; Danus, Lluis; Sales-Pardo, Marta (2023). Early-career factors largely determine the future impact of prominent researchers: evidence across eight scientific fields. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 18794-18794. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-46050-x
Article's DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-46050-x
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2023
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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