Emotional Intelligence in Science

Abstract

ABSTRACTThis is the first on‐going project presenting a four‐dimension metric to identify scholars' emotional intelligence (EI), which has yet to receive much attention. Current study proposes a data‐driven metric rather than a subjective survey to reflect EI's first dimension, self‐awareness. By employing paired‐T‐tests on the DBLP dataset, we found that highly self‐aware scholars are more likely to strive to improve with higher stability, leading to higher productivity and impact. Meanwhile, they have a more significant number of higher diverse collaborators. This research highlights the importance of one's self‐awareness to his/her scientific performance.