Contemporary science is marked by expanding and diverse forms of teamwork.
Collaboration across organizational and cultural boundaries extends the possibilities 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 …

In the fast-growing scholarly big data background, social network technologies have recently
aroused widespread attention in academia and industry. The concept of academic social …

The past decade has witnessed the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI),
especially the explosion of deep learning-related connectionist approaches. This study …

Migration studies have developed rapidly as a research field over the past decades. This
article provides an empirical analysis not only on the development in volume and the …

Background The academic publishing world is changing significantly, with ever-growing
numbers of publications each year and shifting publishing patterns. However, the metrics …

Technological advances in imaging techniques and biometric data acquisition have enabled
us to apply methods of network science to study the morphology and structural design of …

We investigate the degree to which impact in science and technology is associated with
surprising breakthroughs, and how those breakthroughs arise. Identifying breakthroughs …

Most chemical experiments are planned by human scientists and therefore are subject to a
variety of human cognitive biases, heuristics and social influences. These anthropogenic …

One of the main problems in scientometrics is to explore the factors that affect the growth of
citations in publications to identify best practices of research policy to increase the diffusion …