Novelty in Science - Perceiving Systems Blog
WEBBut what is novelty in science? I see reviewers regularly mistake complexity, difficulty, and technicality for novelty. In science reviewing, novelty seems to imply these things. We might be better served by removing the word "novelty" from the review instructions and replacing it …
Atypical Combinations and Scientific Impact | Science - AAAS
WEBOct 25, 2013 · 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 with conventional knowledge may be critical to the link between innovativeness and impact.
What Types of Novelty Are Most Disruptive? - SAGE Journals
WEBMay 12, 2023 · Uncovering which types of novelty are most likely to disrupt knowledge flows, and which types are likely to consolidate and reinforce them, may help identify processes by which new ideas influence the increasingly large volume of …
Neurobiology of novelty seeking | Science - AAAS
WEBMay 14, 2021 · To parse novelty-induced investigation from general locomotion and interactions with familiar objects, the authors probed the neural mechanisms that allow novelty to briefly imbue otherwise neutral stimuli with positive reinforcing properties.
Measuring novelty in science with word embedding | PLOS ONE
WEBJul 2, 2021 · Novelty is a core value in science, and a reliable measurement of novelty is crucial. This study proposes a new approach of measuring the novelty of scientific articles based on both citation data and text data.
Novelty seeking for novelty’s sake | Nature Neuroscience
WEBDec 13, 2021 · Novelty can be detected using various sensory modalities (visual, olfactory, gustatory, auditory, tactile), alone or in combination.
How should novelty be valued in science? - PMC - National …
WEBJul 25, 2017 · Here I explore whether there are risks to overemphasizing novelty when deciding what constitutes good science. I review studies from the philosophy of science to help understand how important an explicit emphasis on …
WEBstudies from the philosophy of science to help understand how important an explicit emphasis on novelty might be for scientific progress. I also review studies from the sociology of science to anticipate how emphasizing novelty might impact the structure and function of the scientific community.
Introducing a novelty indicator for scientific research: validating …
WEBJun 23, 2021 · In this study, we apply a novelty indicator to quantify the degree of citation similarity between a focal paper and a pre-existing same-domain paper from various fields in the natural sciences by proposing a new way of identifying papers that fall into the same domain of focal papers using bibliometric data only.
How should novelty be valued in science? - PubMed
WEBJul 25, 2017 · Here I explore whether there are risks to overemphasizing novelty when deciding what constitutes good science. I review studies from the philosophy of science to help understand how important an explicit emphasis on …