There are often very young prodigies in music, maths, etc. These seem to line up with where there are savants. Poetic or philosophical savants and prodigies seem less common, (rimbaud). Are there ever historian savants or biologist savants?
Age of peak production, How do the great achievements of different fields differ with age? How do citations? This informs us of the metrics usefulness. How much is mean reversion? Why are the different fields different? Are the fields still different under different institutional settings? Is it crafty fields and sciency fields that’s the difference?
Pretty sure this is mostly a crystalisaed knowledge vs. creativity/fluid IQ vs. procedural knowledge fluency thing.