4 papers
Mentorship resources and citation-elite journal publication trajectories after training: Evidence from bioscience mentor-mentee networks
Hao Zeng, Yi Bu, Qingshan Zhou +1
Mentorship provides mentees with knowledge, collaborators, and reputation, but when do these resources support scholarship beyond training? Using 239,931 bioscience mentor-mentee p…
The conservative turn in science: The changing character of knowledge recombination
Cheng Zhang, Xinkun Liang, Yi Bu +1
This study examines how the dominant mode of cross-disciplinary knowledge combination has changed over time. It addresses a limitation of existing studies that document declining d…
Translating AI into scientific impact: Field context, career position, and institutional capability in AI-enabled research
Zhiyong Tan, Hongkan Chen, Yi Bu
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly embedded in scientific research, but its scientific value is unlikely to be distributed evenly. This study examines how AI knowledge in…
Political Hegemony, Imitation Isomorphism, and Project Familiarity: Instrumental Variables to Understand Funding Impact on Scholar Performance
Yang Ding, Yi Bu
This paper contributes a new idea for exploring research funding effects on scholar performance. By collecting details of 9,501 research grants received by principal investigators…