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10
Sep
2009
by David Kaiser (MIT) and Luis Bettencourt (LANL)
For some time, we and OSTI have been interested in the question of how new scientific ideas spread. What does it take for the “next big thing” to leap from one person’s head to an active community of researchers? Do those shared ideas or techniques bind the community together more tightly than before, perhaps even helping to define a new research field that didn’t exist before? And if so, how might we detect and measure such shifts in the space of researchers and ideas
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