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标题：Individual focus and knowledge contribution
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作者：Lada A. Adamic ; Xiao Wei ; Jiang Yang 等
期刊名称：First Monday
电子版ISSN：1396-0466
出版年度：2010
卷号：15
期号：3
DOI：10.5210/fm.v15i3.2841
语种：English
出版社：University of Illinois at Chicago Library
摘要：Before contributing new knowledge, individuals must attain requisite background knowledge or skills through schooling, training, practice, and experience. Given limited time, individuals often choose either to focus on few areas, where they build deep expertise, or to delve less deeply and distribute their attention and efforts across several areas. In this paper we measure the relationship between the narrowness of focus and the quality of contribution across a range of both traditional and recent knowledge sharing media, including scholarly articles, patents, Wikipedia, and online question and answer forums. Across all systems, we observe a small but significant positive correlation between focus and quality.
关键词：focus;knowledge contribution;Wikipedia;question and answer forums