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Analysis reveals a decline in impact for scientists transitioning to new research fields, suggesting a pivot penalty affects productivity.
Scientists who switch research fields suffer a drop in the impact of their new work – a so-called “pivot penalty” – according to a new analysis of scientific papers and patents.
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