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 …

In scientific research, collaboration is one of the most effective ways to take advantage of
new ideas, skills, and resources and for performing interdisciplinary research. Although …

This paper comments on the phenomenon of “publish or perish” associated with the current
information explosion and its awful consequence: the curse that hangs over academia which …

It is important to explore how scientists decide their research agenda and the corresponding
consequences, as their decisions collectively shape contemporary science. There are …

Breakthrough research plays an essential role in the advancement of the scientific system.
The identification and recognition of scientific breakthroughs is thus of extreme importance …

Bibliometric data are relatively simple and describe objective processes of publishing
articles and citing others. It seems quite straightforward to define reasonable measures of a …

The breakthrough potentials of research papers can be explained by their boundary-
spanning qualities. Here, for the first time, we apply the structural variation analysis (SVA) …

Measuring the influence of scientists and their activities on science and society is important
and indeed essential for many studies. Despite the substantial efforts devoted to exploring …

Scientific awards play incentive roles in advancing scientists' future career development,
however, it is not clear how winning a scientific prize influences a scientist's future career …

What are the unique features and characteristics of the scientists who have made the
greatest discoveries in science? To address this question, we assess all major scientific …