Disruption index depends on length of citation window

Bornmann, Lutz und Tekles, Alexander (2019): Disruption index depends on length of citation window. In: Profesional De La Informacion, Bd. 28, Nr. 2, UNSP e280207

Abstract

In the context of recent developments in scientometrics to measure novelty or creative potential, Wu, Wang, and Evans (2019) propose a new disruption index that measures the extent to which a publication disrupts the field of science. We calculated the disruption index for some example papers. The analyses of the index values (using our Web of Science in-house database) show that they depend on the citation window (the period of time over which citations are collected).

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Sozialwissenschaften
• Themengebiete: 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 300 Sozialwissenschaft, Soziologie
• ISSN: 1386-6710
• Sprache: Englisch