Figure 1 | Relationship between a researcher’s citation mass (Arel; area under the citation frequency–value curve — see Supplementary Material Fig. S2) and loge years (t) since first peer-reviewed publication (Y1) for eight disciplines (ARC = archaeology, CHM = chemistry, ECO = ecology, EVO = evolution and development, GEO = geology, MIC = microbiology, OPH = ophthalmology, PAL = paleontology) comprising 60 researchers each (30 female, 30 male) in three different career stages: early career researcher (ECR), mid-career researcher (MCR), and late career researcher (LCR). The fitted lines correspond to the entire sample (solid black), women only (dashed black), and men only (dashed red). Information-theoretic evidence ratios for all relationships > 180; adjusted R 2 for each relationship shown in each panel.