The integration of social science with computer science and engineering fields has
produced a new area of study: computational social science. This field applies …

Theories of scientific and technological change view discovery and invention as
endogenous processes,, wherein previous accumulated knowledge enables future progress …

The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the literature on the original disruption
index (DI1) and its variants in scientometrics. The DI1 has received much media attention …

The science of science has attracted growing research interests, partly due to the increasing
availability of large-scale datasets capturing the innerworkings of science. These datasets …

With teams growing in all areas of scientific and scholarly research, we explore the
relationship between team structure and the character of knowledge they produce. Drawing …

We investigate the degree to which impact in science and technology is associated with
surprising breakthroughs, and how those breakthroughs arise. Identifying breakthroughs …

PubMed® is an essential resource for the medical domain, but useful concepts are either
difficult to extract or are ambiguous, which has significantly hindered knowledge discovery …

There is little question that new communication and transportation technologies have
effectively “shrunk the world” for a great many activities. At the same time, the “death of …

Throughout history, a relatively small number of individuals have made a profound and
lasting impact on science and society. Despite long-standing, multi-disciplinary interests in …

Numerous metrics have been developed to identify revolutionary science which is crucial for
advancing science. However, these metrics have rarely successfully identified revolutionary …