The nearly universal link between the age of past knowledge and tomorrow’s breakthroughs in science and technology: The hotspot

Mukherjee, Satyam; Romero, Daniel M.; Jones, Ben; Uzzi, Brian

doi:10.1126/sciadv.1601315

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“…Several different research fields have also examined characteristics of highly cited papers and found significant differences between disciplines (e.g., Puuska et al, ; Waltman & van Eck, ). A recent study examined “content” differences between highly cited and low‐citation papers and found that highly cited papers contain discussions of both old and new research (Mukherjee & Romero, ). They found the “hot spot” for high‐citation papers was when a paper's cited references (CRs) had a low mean age (e.g., preferentially cited “new” work) and a high mean age variance (also cited seminal work from the past).…”

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High‐Citation Papers in Space Physics: Examination of Gender, Country, and Paper Characteristics

Moldwin

Liemohn

2018

JGR Space Physics

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The number of citations to a refereed journal article from other refereed journal articles is a measure of its impact. Papers, individuals, journals, departments, and institutions are increasingly judged by the impact they have in their disciplines, and citation counts are now a relatively easy (though not necessarily accurate or straightforward) way of attempting to quantify impact. This study examines papers published in the Journal of Geophysical Research—Space Physics in the year 2012 (n = 705) and analyzes the characteristics of high‐citation papers compared to low‐citation papers. We find that high‐citation papers generally have a large number of authors (>5) and cite significantly more articles in the reference section than low‐citation papers. We also examined the gender and country of institution of the first author and found that there is not a statistically significant gender bias, but there are some significant differences in citation statistics between articles based on the country of first‐author institution.

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High‐Citation Papers in Space Physics: Examination of Gender, Country, and Paper Characteristics

Moldwin

Liemohn

2018

JGR Space Physics

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“…They hereby introduce the distance to the science frontier as a metric for science-technology intensity Watzinger and Schnitzer (2018). borrow this metric and provide correlations between the science-technology intensity and the value of patents Mukherjee et al (2017). emphasize the importance of the age structure of references.…”

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“…Trying to track all publications to build our work would not be viable because of the exponential growth of scientific literature (Mukherjee et al 2017). Many researchers have developed different approaches to predict an article's future citations and forecast which kind of literature is more likely to attract scientists' responses.…”

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Qualifying threshold of “take-off” stage for successfully disseminated creative ideas

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The creative process is essentially Darwinian and only a small proportion of creative ideas are selected for further development. However, the threshold that identifies this small fraction of successfully disseminated creative ideas at their early stage has not been thoroughly analyzed through the lens of Rogers's innovation diffusion theory. Here, we take highly cited (top 1%) research papers as an example of the most successfully disseminated creative ideas and explore the time it takes and citations it receives at their "take-off" stage, which play a crucial role in the dissemination of creativity. Results show the majority of highly cited papers will reach 10% and 25% of their total citations within two years and four years, respectively. Interestingly, our results also present a minimal number of articles that attract their first citation before publication. As for the discipline, number of references, and Price index, we find a significant difference exists: Clinical, Pre-Clinical & Health and Life Sciences are the first two disciplines to reach the C10% and C25% in a shorter amount of time. Highly cited papers with limited references usually take more time to reach 10% and 25% of their total citations. In addition, highly cited papers will attract citations rapidly when they cite more recent references. These results provide insights into the timespan and citations for a research paper to become highly cited at the "take-off" stage in its diffusion process, as well as the factors that may influence it.

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The nearly universal link between the age of past knowledge and tomorrow’s breakthroughs in science and technology: The hotspot

Abstract: Papers or patents that cite past work of a particular age distribution double their chances of being a hit.

Cited by 114 publications

References 33 publications

High‐Citation Papers in Space Physics: Examination of Gender, Country, and Paper Characteristics

High‐Citation Papers in Space Physics: Examination of Gender, Country, and Paper Characteristics

Science quality and the value of inventions

Qualifying threshold of “take-off” stage for successfully disseminated creative ideas

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