Question about new conditions which researchers are facing, i will appreciate your contribution.
Both facts are considered. Of course, scientists tend to work on highly-cited topics to achieve a better scientific research effects. However, they can also work on a topic that is not highly-cited but that is needed to solve critical social or scientific matters in their countries or environments.
I believe that scientists work to produce scientific results, and while working they are not thinking much about scientometric indicators. The thoughts on scientometrics appear in the publication stage when a scientist has to publish the results of his research' and then he prefers to publish his paper in a peer reviewed, highly important and influential science journal.
Both, (1) A Phenomenon Occurs by what seems to the Scientist to be by accident: scientists who are interested in a phenomenon that they have identified by accident and then they try to develop a device to track it with repeated observations, and if they develop such a device they will begin to look for other accidents to collect a set of data to which they will try to develop a measuring instrument and develop a theory of explanation based on repeated sighting of these accidents until a prediction model can be developed to explain: (1a) why the phenomenon exists or (1b) how the phenomenon will react over time under different conditions, assuming that the phenomenon or its path can be measured over time.
(2) The "I Have a Detection Instrument and I Can Build a Measuring Device" Approach to Phenomenon Identification: scientists with detection and measurement instruments can look out in the world or into space attempting to identify phenomenon through their identification instruments and if they detect something they can then attempt to measure it.
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