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The critical role of persistent disruption in advancing science
Nan Deng1, Xifeng Gu1, Ying Fan1
1School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
Nature Computational Science
|May 20, 2025
Summary
Highly disruptive scientific papers may not be highly cited. Persistent disruption, where a paper disrupts others without being disrupted itself, is linked to awards and citations.
Area of Science:
- Bibliometrics
- Scientometrics
- Scientific Impact Analysis
Background:
- Disruptive innovation is key in science, but highly disruptive papers often lack citations.
- Understanding citation dynamics is crucial for evaluating scientific impact.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop a metric to quantify citation link disruption.
- To create a framework for evaluating the persistence of scientific disruption.
- To identify characteristics of persistently disruptive papers.
Main Methods:
- Developed a link disruption metric to quantify disruptiveness at reference and citation levels.
- Established a two-dimensional framework to assess disruption persistence.
- Analyzed the relationship between disruption, citations, and awards.
Main Results:
- High reference disruption can correlate with high citation disruption.
- Persistently disruptive papers are more likely to be award-winning and highly cited.
- Larger teams and recent papers show weaker initial disruption but stronger persistence.
Conclusions:
- Persistent disruption is a better indicator of scientific impact than initial disruption alone.
- Award-winning papers exhibit strong persistent disruption.
- Team size and publication recency influence disruption persistence.
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