6 papers
Mentorship resources and citation-elite journal publication trajectories after training: Evidence from bioscience mentor-mentee networks
Hao Zeng, Yi Bu, Qingshan Zhou +1
Mentorship provides mentees with knowledge, collaborators, and reputation, but when do these resources support scholarship beyond training? Using 239,931 bioscience mentor-mentee p…
The conservative turn in science: The changing character of knowledge recombination
Cheng Zhang, Xinkun Liang, Yi Bu +1
This study examines how the dominant mode of cross-disciplinary knowledge combination has changed over time. It addresses a limitation of existing studies that document declining d…
Translating AI into scientific impact: Field context, career position, and institutional capability in AI-enabled research
Zhiyong Tan, Hongkan Chen, Yi Bu
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly embedded in scientific research, but its scientific value is unlikely to be distributed evenly. This study examines how AI knowledge in…
Academic match-makers in sociology: Their role in collaboration network formation
Hongkan Chen, Qingshan Zhou, Robin Haunschild +1
In modern scientific collaboration networks, certain researchers play a pivotal role in bridging scholars who have never worked together - a phenomenon we term academic "match-make…
A Semantic Geometry for Uncovering Paradigm Dynamics via Scientific Publications
Jinchang Liu, Qingshan Zhou, Hongkan Chen +1
Science advances not only by accumulating discovered patterns but by changing how new problems and solutions are expressed. While structural indicators track scholarly attention, t…
Dynamic disruption index across citation and cited references windows: Recommendations for thresholds in research evaluation
Hongkan Chen, Lutz Bornmann, Yi Bu
The temporal dimension of citation accumulation poses fundamental challenges for quantitative research evaluations, particularly in assessing disruptive and consolidating research…