Prestige drives epistemic inequality in the diffusion of scientific ideas
Abstract The spread of ideas in the scientific community is often viewed as a competition, in which good ideas spread further because of greater intrinsic fitness, and publication venue and citation counts correlate with importance and impact. However, relatively little is known about how structural...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2018-10-01
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| Series: | EPJ Data Science |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjds/s13688-018-0166-4 |