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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…
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…
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…