Prominent but Less Productive

Prominent but Less Productive: The Impact of Interdisciplinarity on Scientists' Research

Federal agencies and universities in the U.S. promote interdisciplinary research because it presumably spurs transformative, innovative science. Using data on almost 900 research-center–based scientists and their 32,000 published articles, along with a set of unpublished papers, we assess whether such research is indeed beneficial and whether costs accompany the potential benefits. Existing res...

Are Verbs Less Prominent?

The perceived prominence of three parts of speech (POS), nouns, verbs and adjectives, in three utterance positions, initial, intermediate and final, were examined in a perceptual experiment to see whether previously observed reductions in prominence of intermediate items were the result of positional effects or because words in this position belonged to the same POS, namely verbs. It was found ...

RAD-Seq Genotypes Less, But Offers More

Genotyping enables researchers to zero in on what makes an organism unique, with differences in DNA sequence accounting for everything from phenotypic traits, to the ability to combat disease or flourish in harsh environments. For the past decade, researchers have used microarrays to discover the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), copy number variations (CNVs), insertions, deletions, and d...

RAD-Seq Genotypes Less, But Offers More

Genotyping enables researchers to zero in on what makes an organism unique, with differences in DNA sequence accounting for everything from phenotypic traits, to the ability to combat disease or flourish in harsh environments. For the past decade, researchers have used microarrays to discover the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), copy number variations (CNVs), insertions, deletions, and d...

Fdi Recovery Is Unexpectedly Strong, but Lacks Productive Impact Highlights