🔠Large teams develop and small teams disrupt science and technology : The authors use an enormous dataset of academic articles to discover that team size changes the probability that a paper will disrupt citation patterns in future articles. Solo authors are just as likely to produce high-impact papers as teams with five members, but solo authors are 72% more likely to be highly disruptive. […] We find that solo authors and small teams much more often build on older, less popular work. Larger teams more often target recent, high-impact work as their primary source of inspiration, and this tendency increases monotonically with team size.
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🔠Large teams develop and small teams disrupt science and technology : The authors use an enormous dataset of academic articles to discover that team size changes the probability that a paper will disrupt citation patterns in future articles. Solo authors are just as likely to produce high-impact papers as teams with five members, but solo authors are 72% more likely to be highly disruptive. […] We find that solo authors and small teams much more often build on older, less popular work. Larger teams more often target recent, high-impact work as their primary source of inspiration, and this tendency increases monotonically with team size.