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博士生导师
硕士生导师
性别:女
毕业院校:大连理工大学
学位:博士
所在单位:公共管理学院
学科:科学学与科技管理
电子邮箱:houhaiyan@dlut.edu.cn
Qualifying threshold of "take-off" stage for successfully disseminated creative ideas
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论文类型:期刊论文
发表时间:2019-09-01
发表刊物:SCIENTOMETRICS
收录刊物:SCIE、SSCI
卷号:120
期号:3
页面范围:1193-1208
ISSN号:0138-9130
关键字:Innovation diffusion; Citation analysis; Creativity; Highly cited paper
摘要:The creative process is essentially Darwinian and only a small proportion of creative ideas are selected for further development. However, the threshold that identifies this small fraction of successfully disseminated creative ideas at their early stage has not been thoroughly analyzed through the lens of Rogers's innovation diffusion theory. Here, we take highly cited (top 1%) research papers as an example of the most successfully disseminated creative ideas and explore the time it takes and citations it receives at their "take-off" stage, which play a crucial role in the dissemination of creativity. Results show the majority of highly cited papers will reach 10% and 25% of their total citations within 2 years and 4 years, respectively. Interestingly, our results also present a minimal number of articles that attract their first citation before publication. As for the discipline, number of references, and Price index, we find a significant difference exists: Clinical, Pre-Clinical & Health and Life Sciences are the first two disciplines to reach the C-10% and C-25% in a shorter amount of time. Highly cited papers with limited references usually take more time to reach 10% and 25% of their total citations. In addition, highly cited papers will attract citations rapidly when they cite more recent references. These results provide insights into the timespan and citations for a research paper to become highly cited at the "take-off" stage in its diffusion process, as well as the factors that may influence it.