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SUBMITTER: Sekara V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6294962 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sekara Vedran V Deville Pierre P Ahnert Sebastian E SE Barabási Albert-László AL Sinatra Roberta R Lehmann Sune S
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20181210 50
Experience plays a critical role in crafting high-impact scientific work. This is particularly evident in top multidisciplinary journals, where a scientist is unlikely to appear as senior author if he or she has not previously published within the same journal. Here, we develop a quantitative understanding of author order by quantifying this "chaperone effect," capturing how scientists transition into senior status within a particular publication venue. We illustrate that the chaperone effect ha ...[more]