Fig. 3
From: Scientific rewards for biomedical specialization are large and persistent
Specialization as a function of career age. Here, the distribution of raw researcher-window specialization values (\(\text{spec}_{i,w}\)) is plotted as a function of career age. There is a slight increase early in the career, followed by an extended period of minimal variation in the heart of the career. The slight drop after career age 30 may be attributable to the fact that not all careers in our dataset extend beyond that age. Based on 29,197 unique biomedical researchers for a total of 213,019 researcher-time window observations