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A Mathematical Framework for Citation Disruption
Thomas Gebhart, Russell Funk
Many theories of scientific and technological progress imagine science as an iterative, developmental process periodically interrupted by innovations which disrupt and restructure…
Serendipity in Science
Pyung Nahm, Raviv Murciano-Goroff, Michael Park +1
Serendipity plays an important role in scientific discovery. Indeed, many of the most important breakthroughs, ranging from penicillin to the electric battery, have been made by sc…
Investigating individual writing style as a contributor to gender gaps in science and technology
Kara Kedrick, Ekaterina Levitskaya, Russell J. Funk
Gender gaps in how scientific work is evaluated are well documented, but their sources remain debated. We ask whether an overlooked factor---the linguistic style of the writing its…
Conceptual structure and the growth of scientific knowledge
Kara Kedrick, Ekaterina Levitskaya, Russell J. Funk
How does scientific knowledge grow? This question has occupied a central place in the philosophy of science, stimulating heated debates, but yielding no clear consensus. Many expla…
Go with the Flow? A Large-Scale Analysis of Health Care Delivery Networks in the United States Using Hodge Theory
Thomas Gebhart, Xiaojun Fu, Russell Funk
Health care delivery is a collaborative process, requiring close coordination among networks of providers with specialized expertise. Yet in the United States, care is often spread…
The decline of disruptive science and technology
Michael Park, Erin Leahey, Russell Funk
Theories of scientific and technological change view discovery and invention as endogenous processes, wherein prior accumulated knowledge enables future progress by allowing resear…
The Emergence of Higher-Order Structure in Scientific and Technological Knowledge Networks
Thomas Gebhart, Russell J. Funk
The growth of science and technology is a recombinative process, wherein new discoveries and inventions are built from prior knowledge. Yet relatively little is known about the man…
A Dynamic Network Approach to Breakthrough Innovation
Russell J. Funk, Jason Owen-Smith
This paper outlines a framework for the study of innovation that treats discoveries as additions to evolving networks. As inventions enter they expand or limit the reach of the ide…