Quantifying the impact of weak, strong, and super ties in scientific careers

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

Volumn 112, Issue 34, 2015, Pages E4671-E4680

  Petersen, Alexander Michael ^a  

^a IMT SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES LUCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Career evaluation; Computational social science; Cooperation; Team science

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CAREER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; SOCIOLOGY; STRENGTH; TURNOVER TIME; DECISION MAKING; SCIENCE;

CAREER CHOICE; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; SCIENCE;

EID: 84940416840     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1501444112     Document Type: Article

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