.... Regarding with the relationship between academic performance and topic popularity, some studies indicate that the popularity phase that a research topic is going through has a direct impact on research performance. For instance, Gans and Shepherd (1994) found it difficult to publish pioneering research...

...Kamal Badar; Terrill L. Frantz; Munazza Jabeen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature of the relationship between a scholar’s research performance (using weighted journal-impact factor average) and their degree centrality; the impact of author-homophily (in terms of gender...

...Kamal Badar; Julie M. Hite; Yuosre F. Badir Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether potentially disadvantaged groups of researchers derive more research performance benefits from co-authorship network centrality (degree, closeness and betweenness). Design/methodology...