Figure 2

Scientific mobility in the knowledge space. a. The sequence of arXiv pre-prints of each researcher identifies a unique scientific trajectory in the knowledge space. b. We show two example trajectories indicating different behaviors of researchers. c. Distribution of consecutive jump distances for authors with at least 10 publications (\(N=11{,}826\)). The dashed black line is a guide for the eye indicating a power-law behavior. The gray line corresponds to the distribution of jump distances obtained when locations are selected at random across all possible visited locations