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Fresh teams are associated with original and multidisciplinary research

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Hot Topics and Popular Papers in Evolutionary Psychology: Analyses of Title Words and Citation Counts in <i>Evolution and Human Behavior</i> , 1979 – 2008

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Working Together Apart: Collaboration over the Internet

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Retractions

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A Century of Science: Globalization of Scientific Collaborations, Citations, and Innovations

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The memory of science: Inflation, myopia, and the knowledge network

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Publish (in a group) or perish (alone): the trend from single- to multi-authorship in biological papers

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Guilt by association: How scientific misconduct harms prior collaborators

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Get Up, Stand Up: The Effects of a Non-Sedentary Workspace on Information Elaboration and Group Performance

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The Reverse Matthew Effect: Consequences of Retraction in Scientific Teams

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The pivot penalty in research

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When does brokerage matter? Citation impact of research teams in an emerging academic field

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Prediction of robust scientific facts from literature

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A Quantitative Exploration on Reasons for Citing Articles from the Perspective of Cited Authors

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Up Front and Open? Shrouded in Secrecy? Or Somewhere in Between? A Meta-Research Systematic Review of Open Science Practices in Sport Medicine Research

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LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations

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