The Reverse Matthew Effect: Consequences of Retraction in Scientific Teams
研究了科学论文撤稿后，知名作者和不知名作者在引用上受到的不同影响，发现知名作者几乎不受罚，而不知名作者引用大幅下降，尤其是与知名作者合作时。
Teamwork pervades modern production, yet teamwork can make individual roles difficult to ascertain. The Matthew effect suggests that communities reward eminent team members for great outcomes at the expense of less eminent team members. We study this phenomenon in reverse, investigating credit sharing after damaging events. Our context is article retractions in the sciences. We find that retractions impose little citation penalty on the prior work of eminent coauthors, but less eminent coauthors experience substantial citation declines, especially when teamed with eminent authors. These findings suggest a reverse Matthew effect for team-produced negative events. A Bayesian model provides a candidate interpretation.