And to a large extent, people do pursue those frontiers. It’s no secret that an academic can easily find fertile fields by working with someone in a different department. “Interdisciplinary” work has a reputation for being unusually high-yield.
Since (top tier, excluding Nature, Science) journals typically care most about single axis achievements.
Nice article. I perhaps take issue with this:
Since (top tier, excluding Nature, Science) journals typically care most about single axis achievements.