27.04.2021
Novelty, Disruption, and the Evolution of Scientific Impact
« Since the 1950s, citation impact has been the dominant metric by which science is quantitatively evaluated. But research contributions play distinct roles in the unfolding drama of scientific debate, agreement and advance, and institutions may value different kinds of advances. Computational power, access to citation data and an array of modeling techniques have given rise to a widening portfolio of metrics to extract different signals regarding their contribution. Here we unpack the complex, temporally evolving relationship between citation impact alongside novelty and disruption, two emerging measures that capture the degree to which science not only influences, but transforms later work. (…) »
source > arxiv.org, Yiling Lin, James Allen Evans, Lingfei Wu, 5 mars 2021, arXiv:2103.03398
