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12 papers
The Longevity of Innovation
Yiling Lin, Zak Risha, Erin Leahey +1
Modern science is organized around specialization in training and teamwork. Scientists develop deep expertise within a field and combine complementary knowledge through collaborati…
Innovation by Displacement
Linzhuo Li, Yiling Lin, Lingfei Wu
New ideas are often thought to arise from recombining existing knowledge. Yet despite rapid publication growth - and expanding opportunities for recombination - scientific breakthr…
Can Recombination Displace Dominant Scientific Ideas
Linzhuo Li, Yiling Lin, Lingfei Wu
The combination of diverse, pre-existing knowledge is a common explanation for scientific breakthroughs. However, a paradox exists: while scientific output and the potential for su…
The Disruption Index Measures Displacement Between a Paper and Its Most Cited Reference
Yiling Lin, Linzhuo Li, Lingfei Wu
Initially developed to capture technical innovation and later adapted to identify scientific breakthroughs, the Disruption Index (D-index) offers the first quantitative framework f…
Is Science Inevitable?
Linzhuo Li, Yiling Lin, Lingfei Wu
Using large-scale citation data and a breakthrough metric, the study systematically evaluates the inevitability of scientific breakthroughs. We find that scientific breakthroughs e…
Team Size and Its Negative Impact on the Disruption Index
Yiling Lin, Linzhuo Li, Lingfei Wu
As science transitions from the age of lone geniuses to an era of collaborative teams, the question of whether large teams can sustain the creativity of individuals and continue dr…
Displacing Science
Linzhuo Li, Yiling Lin, Lingfei Wu
Recent research on the decline in the paper disruption index (D-index) has sparked heated debates among scholars and garnered significant attention from policymakers and research i…
Small Teams Propel Fresh Ideas in Science and Technology
Yiling Lin, Lingfei Wu
The past half-century has seen a dramatic increase in the scale and complexity of scientific research, to which researchers have responded by dedicating more time to education and…
The Death of Renaissance Scientist
Zak Risha, Yiling Lin, Erin Leahey +1
Scholars are often categorized into two types: hedgehogs (specialists), who focus on working within a specific research field, and foxes (generalists), who actively contribute to a…
Remote Collaboration Fuses Fewer Breakthrough Ideas
Yiling Lin, Carl Benedikt Frey, Lingfei Wu
Theories of innovation emphasize the role of social networks and teams as facilitators of breakthrough discoveries. Around the world, scientists and inventors today are more plenti…
Aging and the Narrowing of Scientific Innovation
Haochuan Cui, Yiling Lin, Lingfei Wu +1
With rising life expectancies around the world and an older scientific workforce than ever before, what does aging mean for individual scientists, and what do aging scientists mean…
New Directions in Science Emerge from Disconnection and Discord
Yiling Lin, James Allen Evans, Lingfei Wu
Science is built on the scholarly consensus that shifts with time. This raises the question of how new and revolutionary ideas are evaluated and become accepted into the canon of s…