New and atypical combinations: An assessment of novelty and interdisciplinarity

Volume: 49, Issue: 7, Pages: 104063 - 104063
Published: Sep 1, 2020
Abstract
Novelty indicators are increasingly important for science policy. This paper challenges the indicators of novelty as an atypical combination of knowledge (Uzzi et al., 2013) and as the first appearance of a knowledge combination (Wang et al., 2017). We exploit a sample of 230,854 articles (1985 - 2005), published on 8 journals of the American Physical Society (APS) and 2.4 million citations to test the indicators using (i) a Configuration Null...
Paper Details
Title
New and atypical combinations: An assessment of novelty and interdisciplinarity
Published Date
Sep 1, 2020
Volume
49
Issue
7
Pages
104063 - 104063
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