Contandriopoulos et al. examined how the diversity of a researcher’s collaboration network may predict the researcher’s career impact. Researchers who play more of a bridging role between different groups and communities within the research network are likely to produce more influential work (Contandriopoulos et al., 2016). Researchers who prioritize their research productivity should diversify their collaborators and communities to improve their structural position and make novel connections. While a researcher’s choice of collaborators will not be made solely based on the potential for that collaborator to be a novel connection, the impact of that collaboration on the researcher’s structural position should be considered if the researcher hopes to maximize their productive output over their careers. At the same time, we have seen that there are incentives in place that keep researchers choosing more conservative research topics and collaborations (Fortunato et al., 2018). A researcher’s awareness of the importance of their structural position may help them break free of their community silo that could be limiting their research impact.