Interesting #Nature paper:
Large teams develop and small teams disrupt science and technology
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-0941-9
"Work from larger teams builds on more-recent and popular developments, and attention to their work comes immediately. By contrast, contributions by smaller teams search more deeply into the past, are viewed as disruptive to science and technology and succeed further into the future—if at all."
Large teams develop and small teams disrupt science and technology - Nature
Analyses of the output produced by large versus small teams of researchers and innovators demonstrate that their work differs systematically in the extent to which it disrupts or develops existing science and technology.