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most citedReputation and Impact in Academic Careers

316 citations · 748 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

physics.soc-ph2020★ 9 cited

Renormalizing individual performance metrics for cultural heritage management of sports records

Alexander M. Petersen, Orion Penner

Individual performance metrics are commonly used to compare players from different eras. However, such cross-era comparison is often biased due to significant changes in success fa…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 43 cited

Identifying Geographic Clusters: A Network Analytic Approach

Roberto Catini, Dmytro Karamshuk, Orion Penner +1

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the role of networks and clusters in the global economy. Despite being a popular research topic in economics, sociology and urb…

physics.soc-ph2014★ 43 cited

Inequality and cumulative advantage in science careers: a case study of high-impact journals

Alexander M. Petersen, Orion Penner

Analyzing a large data set of publications drawn from the most competitive journals in the natural and social sciences we show that research careers exhibit the broad distributions…

cs.DL2014★ 53 cited

Exploiting citation networks for large-scale author name disambiguation

Christian Schulz, Amin Mazloumian, Alexander M Petersen +2

We present a novel algorithm and validation method for disambiguating author names in very large bibliographic data sets and apply it to the full Web of Science (WoS) citation inde…

physics.soc-ph2013★ 127 cited

On the Predictability of Future Impact in Science

Orion Penner, Raj Kumar Pan, Alexander M. Petersen +2

Correctly assessing a scientist's past research impact and potential for future impact is key in recruitment decisions and other evaluation processes. While a candidate's future im…

physics.soc-ph2013★ 26 cited

The case for caution in predicting scientists' future impact

Orion Penner, Raj K. Pan, Alexander M. Petersen +1

We stress-test the career predictability model proposed by Acuna et al. [Nature 489, 201-202 2012] by applying their model to a longitudinal career data set of 100 Assistant profes…