3 papers
cs.DL2026
The disruption index does not measure scientific innovation
Julien Larregue, Yves Gingras
A paper recently published in Science under the rubric of Policy Article argued that what the authors call scientific disruption declines with academic age, and that this decline i…
cs.DL2026
The Curious Case of Max Planck retracted papers. When past scientific practices meet contemporary publishing norms
Yves Gingras, Mahdi Khelfaoui
This article examines the case of two papers published in Naturwissenschaften by the physicist Max Planck that were retrospectively marked as "retracted" on Springer digital platfo…
physics.soc-ph2009
On the relationship between interdisciplinarity and scientific impact
Vincent Lariviere, Yves Gingras
This paper analyzes the effect of interdisciplinarity on the scientific impact of individual papers. Using all the papers published in Web of Science in 2000, we define the degree…