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Reputation and impact in academic careers
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Significance: Over a scientist’s career, a reputation is developed, a standing within a research community, based largely upon the quantity and quality of his/her publications. Here, we develop a framework for quantifying the influence author reputation has on a publication’s future impact. We find author reputation plays a key role in driving a paper’s citation count early in its citation life cycle, before a tipping point, after which reputation has much less influence relative to the paper’s citation count. In science, perceived quality, and decisions made based on those perceptions, is increasingly linked to citation counts. Shedding light on the complex mechanisms driving these quantitative measures facilitates not only better evaluation of scientific outputs but also a more transparent evaluation of the scientists producing them.
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“The reputation of paper authors, measured by the total citations of their previous output, markedly boosts the number of citations collected by that paper in the first years after publication (47).”
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The memory of science: Inflation, myopia, and the knowledge network
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- Authors
- Petersen, A. M., Fortunato, S., Pan, R. K., Kaski, K., Penner, O., Rungi, A., Riccaboni, M., Stanley, H. E., & Pammolli, F.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2014-10-06
- Volume
- 111
- Issue
- 43
- Pages
- 15316-15321
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- OpenAlex
- W2152513188
- Cited by
- 304
- References
- 65
- FWCI
- 22.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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