How Atypical Combinations of Scientific Ideas Are Related to Impact: The General Case and the Case of the Field of Geography
| Autor: | Brian Uzzi, Benjamin F. Jones, Michael J. Stringer, Satyam Mukherjee |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Teamwork
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Perspective (graphical) Novelty Field (computer science) Epistemology Intrusion Geography Embodied cognition Citation analysis 0502 economics and business Feature (machine learning) Economic geography 050207 economics 050203 business & management media_common |
| Zdroj: | Knowledge and Space ISBN: 9783319450223 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-45023-0_12 |
| Popis: | Novelty is an essential feature of creative ideas, yet the building blocks of new ideas are often embodied in existing knowledge. From this perspective, balancing atypical knowledge with conventional knowledge may be critical to the link between innovativeness and impact. The authors’ analysis of 17.9 million papers spanning all scientific fields suggests that science follows a nearly universal pattern: The highest-impact science is primarily grounded in exceptionally conventional combinations of prior work, yet simultaneously features an intrusion of unusual combinations. Papers of this type were twice as likely to be highly cited works. Novel combinations of prior work are rare, yet teams are 37.7 % more likely than solo authors to insert novel combinations into familiar knowledge domains. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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