Characterizing scientists leaving science before their time: Evidence from mathematics
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Highlights：
• Failure in science has received a relatively small amount of attention in science of science and scientometrics, relative to their frequency. Motivated by this gap, this study seeks to identify and characterize "scientists who leave before their time (SLBTs)" by designing a novel measure.
• Utilizing a large-scale bibliographic dataset from Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) in the field of mathematics, we identified over 10,000 scientists who left before their 20th career year.
• Scientists who left in the first five years of their career can be summarized as incompetency in their research abilities and a lack of collaboration with senior or highly cited authors.
摘要
•Failure in science has received a relatively small amount of attention in science of science and scientometrics, relative to their frequency. Motivated by this gap, this study seeks to identify and characterize "scientists who leave before their time (SLBTs)" by designing a novel measure.•Utilizing a large-scale bibliographic dataset from Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) in the field of mathematics, we identified over 10,000 scientists who left before their 20th career year.•Scientists who left in the first five years of their career can be summarized as incompetency in their research abilities and a lack of collaboration with senior or highly cited authors.
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论文评审过程：Received 16 December 2020, Revised 8 June 2021, Accepted 8 June 2021, Available online 19 June 2021, Version of Record 19 June 2021.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2021.102661
