Reputation and impact in academic careers

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

Volumn 111, Issue 43, 2014, Pages 15316-15321

  Petersen, Alexander Michael ^a   Fortunato, Santo ^b   Pan, Raj K ^b   Kaski, Kimmo ^b   Penner, Orion ^a   Rungi, Armando ^a   Riccaboni, Massimo ^a,c   Stanley, H Eugene ^d   Pammolli, Fabio ^a,d  

^a IMT SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES LUCCA   (Italy)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational sociology; Matthew effect; Networks of networks; Science of science; Sociophysics

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC CAREER; ARTICLE; CAREER; CITATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPUTATION; SCIENTIST; SOCIAL NETWORK; BIBLIOMETRICS; CAREER MOBILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PERSONNEL; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIBLIOMETRICS; CAREER MOBILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH; RESEARCH PERSONNEL;

EID: 84908431076     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1323111111     Document Type: Article

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