Not exactly an advert for the joys of a career in medical research
Perhaps unsurprisingly, researchers working in fields where the accumulation of relatively small bits of new knowledge is valued, such as medical science, accounted for the majority of those in the influential core in a random sample of the data.
An article in the Times Higher, reporting some research by the ever productive John Ioannidis. Another ‘brick in the wall’, as Pink Floyd sang.