Understanding the relationship between the composition of a research team and the potential impact of their research papers is crucial as it can steer the development of new science policies for improving the research enterprise. Numerous studies assess how the characteristics and diversity of research teams can influence their performance across several dimensions: ethnicity, internationality, size, and others. In this paper, we explore the impact of diversity in terms of the authors' expertise. To this purpose, we retrieved 114K papers in the field of Computer Science and analysed how the diversity of research fields within a research team relates to the number of citations their papers received in the upcoming 5 years. The results show that two different metrics we defined, reflecting the diversity of expertise, are significantly associated with the number of citations. This suggests that, at least in Computer Science, diversity of expertise is key to scientific impact.

翻译：理解研究团队构成与其论文潜在影响力之间的关系至关重要，因为这能引导制定新的科学政策以提升研究效能。诸多研究从种族、国际性、团队规模等维度评估团队特征与多样性如何影响其绩效。本文聚焦于作者专业背景多样性的影响。为此，我们检索了计算机科学领域的114,000篇论文，分析研究团队内学科领域的多样性如何与论文在未来5年内获得的引用次数相关联。结果表明，我们定义的两个反映专业多样性的指标与引用次数显著相关。这至少表明，在计算机科学领域，专业多样性是决定科学影响力的关键因素。