Some ideas have dramatically more impact than others–they may overturn existing
paradigms or launch new areas of scientific inquiry. Where do such high impact ideas come …

Novelty is an essential feature of creative ideas, yet the building blocks of new ideas are
often embodied in existing knowledge. From this perspective, balancing atypical knowledge …

Adding to the literature on the recognition and spread of ideas, and alongside the bias
against novelty view documented in prior research, we introduce the perspective that articles …

Research which explores unchartered waters has a high potential for major impact but also
carries a higher uncertainty of having impact. Such explorative research is often described …

This paper explores the complex relationship between scientific novelty and technological
impact. We measure novel science as publications which make new combinations of prior …

This paper introduces the perspective of dynamic citation process to identify citation patterns
of scientific breakthroughs. We construct a series of citation metrics and apply them to over …

Discovery in science is the generation of novel, interesting, plausible, and intelligible
knowledge about the objects of study. Literature-related discovery (LRD) is the linking of two …

Research fronts represent the most dynamic areas of science and technology and the areas
that attract the most scientific interest. We construct a methodology to identify these fronts …

We use publicly available data to show that published papers in top psychology, economics,
and general interest journals that fail to replicate are cited more than those that replicate …

What conditions enable novel intellectual contributions to diffuse and become integrated into
later scientific work? Prior work tends to focus on whole cultural products, such as patents …