We had a choice between cooperation or competition and you won't believe what happened next.
Issue 69: The story behind a recent paper--how we were forced to choose between competing with scientists doing similar research or cooperating with them
Being scooped to a discovery is a terrifying prospect for many scientists. This occurs when two research teams are racing to a discovery only to have one team publish their findings faster.
By one analysis, scooped papers receive about one-quarter fewer citations than papers that are the first to report the same discovery, and it can be very difficult to…
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