{"ID":2893987,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12255","arxiv_id":"2507.12255","title":"Freshness, Persistence and Success of Scientific Teams","abstract":"Team science dominates scientific knowledge production, but what makes academic teams successful? Using temporal data on 25.2 million publications and 31.8 million authors, we propose a novel network-driven approach to identify and study the success of persistent teams. Challenging the idea that persistence alone drives success, we find that team freshness - new collaborations built on prior experience - is key to success. High impact research tends to emerge early in a team's lifespan. Analyzing complex team overlap, we find that teams open to new collaborative ties consistently produce better science. Specifically, team re-combinations that introduce new freshness impulses sustain success, while persistence impulses from experienced teams are linked to earlier impact. Together, freshness and persistence shape team success across collaboration stages.","short_abstract":"Team science dominates scientific knowledge production, but what makes academic teams successful? Using temporal data on 25.2 million publications and 31.8 million authors, we propose a novel network-driven approach to identify and study the success of persistent teams. Challenging the idea that persistence alone drive...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12255","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.12255v2","authors":"[\"Hanjo D. Boekhout\",\"Eelke M. Heemskerk\",\"Niccolò Pisani\",\"Frank W. Takes\"]","published":"2025-07-16T14:00:51Z","proceeding":"cs.DL","tasks":"[\"cs.DL\",\"cs.SI\"]","methods":"[]","has_code":false}