Scooped! Estimating Rewards for Priority in Science
利用结构生物学数据和蛋白质数据库，研究在科学发现中被抢先发表（即被“scooped”）对后续论文发表和职业发展的影响，发现被抢先的团队在顶级期刊发表概率降低，引用量减少21%。
The scientific community assigns credit or “priority” to individuals who publish an important discovery first. We examine the impact of losing a priority race (colloquially known as getting “scooped”) on publication and career outcomes. To do so, we analyze data from structural biology where the nature of the scientific process together with the Protein Data Bank enables us to identify priority races and their outcomes. We find that scooped teams are less likely to publish in top journals and receive 21 percent fewer citations. We further study the implications of priority racing on research strategy, academic inequality, and scientist beliefs.