Topic: big data analysis reveals the influence of early career setbacks and future career
Speaker: professor wang Yang
Lecture time: 15:00-16:30, December 26, 2019
Venue: Shanghai maritime university library B107
Pick to: With the availability of large-scale scholarly datasets, science of science has become one of the hottest topics 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 loss has powerful, careening effects. On the one hand, it loses weight. Predicting wining 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 top service me stronger," which have broad implications for identifying, training and nurturing junior scientists.
Wang Yang is a professor at the school of public policy and management, xi 'an jiaotong university. He was selected to the "young top talent program" of xi 'an jiaotong university in 2019. Before joining xi 'an jiaotong university, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Kellogg school of management, northwestern university. Main research field for the network science, data science, science, etc., in Nature, Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, such as internationally renowned journals published more than 10 articles, the paper has a wide range of influence, was more than seventy well-known international media, such as harvard business Review, the economist, the New York times, Forbes magazine, financial daily, the Wall Street journal, The Times, etc.
Organizer: Shanghai maritime university safety technology trend research center