Remote working is making it harder for scientists to get “Eureka!” moments, an Oxford study has found.
Over recent decades there has been increased international collaboration in science, but this has come at the expense of landmark studies, data show.
There is a “remote work penalty” which makes it 4 per cent less likely that a study with remote collaborations will generate a significant breakthrough, compared with people working at the same site, analysis of more than 20 million scientific studies found.
Previous work has found modern science to be less “disruptive” than in the past and there are now fewer papers being published that are truly transformational and make a splash.
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