vincentholst.bsky.social

@vincentholst.bsky.social

Teaching assistant and PhD student at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Working on Artificial Intelligence ∩ Mathematics ∩ Science of Science.

As promised, we now share some details why it took 32 months to get this Matters Arising published, and, since many asked, share some comments on the reply to our critique. All details can be found in this small FAQ vincentholst.github.io/the_curious_.... Below is a summary 🧵

The Curious Case of the Declining Disruption’s Disappearance

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In 2023, @nature.com published 'Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time', receiving world-wide media attention. Our Matters Arising, published after a 32 month delay (more on that soon), shows that the reported decline can largely be attributed to dataset artefacts. 🧵

The average CD_5 index per year for Web of Science. The original Park et al. decline (top curve) becomes essentially flat (bottom curve) when removing papers with CD_5=1. Those papers largely correspond to dataset artefacts.