Principles of scientific research team formation and evolution

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3984-3989

  Milojevic, Stasa ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cumulative advantage; Team science

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MATHEMATICS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH; SCIENCE; SCIENTIST; SIMULATION; WRITING;

CUMULATIVE ADVANTAGE; TEAM SCIENCE;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RESEARCH;

EID: 84896511026     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1309723111     Document Type: Article

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