Increasing trend of scientists to switch between topics

How does a scientist’s tendency to explore a variety of topics affect their career? Here, the authors analyze scientific publication data to understand how often scientists switch topics, how topic switching has changed over time, and how it relates to research productivity.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: An Zeng, Zhesi Shen, Jianlin Zhou, Ying Fan, Zengru Di, Yougui Wang, H. Eugene Stanley, Shlomo Havlin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11401-8