Setbacks are an integral part of a scientific career, yet little is known about their long-term
effects. Here we examine junior scientists applying for National Institutes of Health R01 …

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 …

The past thirty years have witnessed a dramatic decline in the number of US students
pursuing advanced degrees in science and an equally dramatic increase in the number of …

We examined the long-term impact of coauthorship with established, highly-cited scientists
on the careers of junior researchers in four scientific disciplines. Here, using matched pair …

High attrition rates have been a defining characteristic of doctoral education for decades,
representing a loss of time, talent, and effort for departing students and their faculty. This …

Many postdoctoral researchers apply for faculty positions knowing relatively little about the
hiring process or what is needed to secure a job offer. To address this lack of knowledge …

Contemporary science has been characterized by an exponential growth in publications and
a rise of team science. At the same time, there has been an increase in the number of …

Research careers are typically envisioned as a single path in which a scientist starts as a
member of a team working under the guidance of one or more experienced scientists and, if …

There is increasing evidence that science & engineering PhD students lose interest in an
academic career over the course of graduate training. It is not clear, however, whether this …

A classic thesis is that scientific achievement exhibits a “Matthew effect”: Scientists who have
previously been successful are more likely to succeed again, producing increasing …