Understanding and modeling diverse scientific careers of researchers
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Highlights：
• We define two metrics to measure the diversity of research career of a researcher.
• Researchers work on few areas in the entire career, with several areas at a time.
• Highly cited researchers typically follow “scatter-gather” policy in choosing areas.
• Low-cited researchers work on various areas at a time as well as in the entire career.
• Our stochastic model efficiently mimics the real dynamic of field selection process.
摘要
Highlights•We define two metrics to measure the diversity of research career of a researcher.•Researchers work on few areas in the entire career, with several areas at a time.•Highly cited researchers typically follow “scatter-gather” policy in choosing areas.•Low-cited researchers work on various areas at a time as well as in the entire career.•Our stochastic model efficiently mimics the real dynamic of field selection process.
论文关键词：Scientific career,Diversity,Stochastic model
论文评审过程：Received 22 September 2014, Revised 16 November 2014, Accepted 18 November 2014, Available online 9 December 2014.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2014.11.008
