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physics.soc-ph2026

Balancing innovation and assimilation in research communities

Bill Nunn, Maria Horner, Marcel Ortgiese +1

The paper introduces two interacting particle‑system models that capture how research communities balance creating new ideas with learning existing ones, showing that larger commun…