Abstract:Academic award plays an important role in an academic's career, particularly for early career academics. Previous studies have primarily focused on the impact of awards conferred to academics who have made outstanding contributions to a specific research field, such as the Nobel Prize. In contrast, this paper aims to investigate the effect of awards conferred to academics at an earlier career stage, who have the potential to make a great impact in the future. We devise a metric named Award Change Factor (ACF),… Show more
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