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259 Fig. 12.8 Authorship structure, novelty, and conventionality. Team-authored papers are more likely to incorporate tail novelty but without sacrificing a central tendency for high conventionality. Papers introduce tail novelty (a 10th percentile z-score less than 0) in 36.2 %, 39.9 %, and 49.7 % of cases for solo authors, dual authors, and three or more authors, respectively (a). Kolmogorov- Smirnov tests confirm the distributions of tail novelty are distinct (solo vs. pair p = 0.016, pair vs. team p = 0.001, team vs. solo p < 0.001). By contrast, each team size shows similar distributions for median conventionality (b KS tests indicate no statistically significant differences). These findings suggest that a distinguishing feature of teamwork, and teams’ exceptional impact, reflects a ten- dency to incorporate novelty. From Uzzi et al. (2013a, p. 470). Copyright 2013 by Science. Reprinted with permission from the authors and Science 12 How Atypical Combinations of Scientific Ideas Are Related to Impact:…