讲座题目：大数据分析揭示早期职业挫折与未来职业影响
主讲人：王洋 教授
讲座时间：2019年12月26日15:00-16:30
讲座地点：上海海事大学图书馆B107
摘 要：With the availability of large-scale scholarly datasets, science of science has become one of the hottest topic recently. In this talk, I will focus on one frontier – the impact of failure. Setbacks are an integral part of a scientific career, yet little is known about their long-term effects. Here we examine junior scientists applying for National Institutes of Health R01 grants. By focusing on proposals fell just below and just above the funding threshold, we compare near miss with narrow-win applicants, and find that an early-career setback has powerful, opposing effects. On the one hand, it significantly increases attrition, predicting more than a 10% chance of disappearing permanently from the NIH system. Yet, despite an early setback, individuals with near misses systematically outperform those with narrow wins in the longer run. Moreover, this performance
advantage seems to go beyond a screening mechanism, suggesting early-career setback appears to cause a performance improvement among those who persevere. Overall, these findings are consistent with the concept that “what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger,” which may have broad implications for identifying, training and nurturing junior scientists.
王洋，西安交通大学公共政策与管理学院教授， 2019 年加入西安交通大学之前在美国西北大学凯洛格商学院从事博士后研究。主要研究领域为网络科学、数据科学、科学学等，在包括Nature、Nature Communications、Physical Review Letters等国际知名期刊发表文章十余篇，论文有广泛的影响力，被七十余家国际知名媒体报道，如哈佛商业评论、 经济学人、纽约时报、福布斯杂志、金融日报、华尔街日报、泰晤士报等。
主办单位：上海海事大学 安全科技趋势研究中心