84 - Large Teams Develop, Small Groups Disrupt, with Lingfei Wu

In a recent Nature paper, Lingfei Wu (Ling) suggests that smaller
teams of scientists tend to do more disruptive work. In this
episode, we invite Ling to discuss their results, how they define
disruption and possible reasons why smaller teams may be better
positioned to do disruptive work. We also touch on robustness of
the disruption metric, differences between research disciplines,
and sleeping beauties in science. Lingfei Wu’s homepage:
https://www.knowledgelab.org/people/detail/lingfei_wu/ Paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-0941-9 Note: Lingfei is
on the job market for faculty positions at the intersection of
social science, computer science and communication.