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Hypothesis: Popular fields attract people who are relatively more interested in status and relatively more inclined to conformity.

Testable prediction: Run some standard conformity experiments on scientists in fields that were more popular or less popular at the time the scientist joined them.

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Very interesting article. Perhaps this recent article in BMJ is related:How citation distortions create unfounded authority

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