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Characterizing a scientific elite: the social characteristics of the most highly cited scientists in environmental science and ecology
In science, a relatively small pool of researchers garners a disproportionally large number of citations. Still, very little is known about the social characteristics of highly cited scientists. This is unfortunate as these researchers wield a disproportional impact on their fields, and the study of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2940434/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20927183 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0234-4 |
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author | Parker, John N. Lortie, Christopher Allesina, Stefano |
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description | In science, a relatively small pool of researchers garners a disproportionally large number of citations. Still, very little is known about the social characteristics of highly cited scientists. This is unfortunate as these researchers wield a disproportional impact on their fields, and the study of highly cited scientists can enhance our understanding of the conditions which foster highly cited work, the systematic social inequalities which exist in science, and scientific careers more generally. This study provides information on this understudied subject by examining the social characteristics and opinions of the 0.1% most cited environmental scientists and ecologists. Overall, the social characteristics of these researchers tend to reflect broader patterns of inequality in the global scientific community. However, while the social characteristics of these researchers mirror those of other scientific elites in important ways, they differ in others, revealing findings which are both novel and surprising, perhaps indicating multiple pathways to becoming highly cited. |
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spelling | pubmed-29404342010-10-04 Characterizing a scientific elite: the social characteristics of the most highly cited scientists in environmental science and ecology Parker, John N. Lortie, Christopher Allesina, Stefano Scientometrics Article In science, a relatively small pool of researchers garners a disproportionally large number of citations. Still, very little is known about the social characteristics of highly cited scientists. This is unfortunate as these researchers wield a disproportional impact on their fields, and the study of highly cited scientists can enhance our understanding of the conditions which foster highly cited work, the systematic social inequalities which exist in science, and scientific careers more generally. This study provides information on this understudied subject by examining the social characteristics and opinions of the 0.1% most cited environmental scientists and ecologists. Overall, the social characteristics of these researchers tend to reflect broader patterns of inequality in the global scientific community. However, while the social characteristics of these researchers mirror those of other scientific elites in important ways, they differ in others, revealing findings which are both novel and surprising, perhaps indicating multiple pathways to becoming highly cited. Springer Netherlands 2010-05-06 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2940434/ /pubmed/20927183 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0234-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2010 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Article Parker, John N. Lortie, Christopher Allesina, Stefano Characterizing a scientific elite: the social characteristics of the most highly cited scientists in environmental science and ecology |
title | Characterizing a scientific elite: the social characteristics of the most highly cited scientists in environmental science and ecology |
title_full | Characterizing a scientific elite: the social characteristics of the most highly cited scientists in environmental science and ecology |
title_fullStr | Characterizing a scientific elite: the social characteristics of the most highly cited scientists in environmental science and ecology |
title_full_unstemmed | Characterizing a scientific elite: the social characteristics of the most highly cited scientists in environmental science and ecology |
title_short | Characterizing a scientific elite: the social characteristics of the most highly cited scientists in environmental science and ecology |
title_sort | characterizing a scientific elite: the social characteristics of the most highly cited scientists in environmental science and ecology |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2940434/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20927183 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0234-4 |
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