The Effects of Remote Working on Scientific Collaboration and Impact

Sara Venturini, Satyaki Sikdar, Martina Mazzarello, Francesco Rinaldi, Francesco Tudisco, Paolo Santi, Santo Fortunato, Carlo Ratti

The COVID-19 pandemic shifted academic collaboration from in-person to remote interactions. This study explores, for the first time, the effects on scientific collaborations and impact of such a shift, comparing research output before, during, and after the pandemic. Using large-scale bibliometric data, we track the …

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What we should learn from pandemic publishing

Satyaki Sikdar, Sara Venturini, Marie-Laure Charpignon, Sagar Kumar, Francesco Rinaldi, Francesco Tudisco, Santo Fortunato, Maimuna S. Majumder

Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 8, pp. 1631–1634, 2024

Authors of COVID-19 papers produced during the pandemic were overwhelmingly not subject matter experts. Such a massive inflow of scholars from different expertise areas is both an asset and a potential problem. Domain-informed scientific collaboration is the key to preparing for future crises.

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Collaboration and topic switches in science

Sara Venturini, Satyaki Sikdar, Francesco Rinaldi, Francesco Tudisco, Santo Fortunato

Scientific Reports, vol. 14, pp. 1258, 2024

Collaboration is a key driver of science and innovation. Mainly motivated by the need to leverage different capacities and expertise to solve a scientific problem, collaboration is also an excellent source of information about the future behavior of scholars. In particular, it allows us to infer the likelihood that …

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