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Atypical Combinations and Scientific Impact

Published:2013-10-25 Issue:6157 Volume:342 Page:468-472
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Uzzi Brian¹²,Mukherjee Satyam¹²,Stringer Michael²³,Jones Ben¹⁴

Affiliation:

1. Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2001 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.

2. Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Northwestern University, 600 Foster, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.

3. Datascope Analytics, 180 West Adams Street, Chicago, IL 60603, USA.

4. National Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

Abstract

Making an Impact How big a role do unconventional combinations of existing knowledge play in the impact of a scientific paper? To examine this question, Uzzi et al. (p. 468 ) studied 17.9 million research articles across five decades of the Web of Science, the largest repository of scientific research. Scientific work typically appeared to draw on highly conventional, familiar mixtures of knowledge. The highest-impact papers were not the ones that had the greatest novelty, but had a combination of novelty and otherwise conventional combinations of prior work.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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