3 papers
physics.soc-ph2026
The geopolitics of knowledge: tipping points, national fingerprints, and the unequal globalization of science
Irina Vorobeva, Maxime Lenormand, Germana Berlantini +1
Science is often portrayed as a universal and self-contained system, driven solely by the internal logic of knowledge accumulation and isolated from the turbulences of the socio-po…
cs.DL2024
The Gerontocratization of Science: How hypergrowth reshapes knowledge circulation
Antoine Houssard, Floriana Gargiulo, Tommaso Venturini +2
Scientific literature has been growing exponentially for decades, with publications from the last twenty years now comprising 60% of all academic output. While the impact of inform…
physics.soc-ph2021
A collaborative path to scientific discovery: Distribution of labor, productivity and innovation in collaborative science
Floriana Gargiulo, Maria Castaldo, Tommaso Venturini +1
In this work we dig into the process of scientific discovery by looking at a yet unexploited source of information: Polymath projects. Polymath projects are an original attempt to…