{"id":215171,"date":"2025-06-01T09:03:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T14:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/researchers-who-pivot-into-new-fields-should-not-be-given-a-citation-penalty"},"modified":"2025-06-01T09:03:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T14:03:23","slug":"researchers-who-pivot-into-new-fields-should-not-be-given-a-citation-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/researchers-who-pivot-into-new-fields-should-not-be-given-a-citation-penalty","title":{"rendered":"Researchers who \u2018pivot\u2019 into new fields should not be given a citation penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-who-pivot-into-new-fields-should-not-be-given-a-citation-penalty.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The COVID-19 pandemic showed the value of changing direction in research. It should be incentivized, encouraged and celebrated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic showed the value of changing direction in research. It should be incentivized, encouraged and celebrated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}