Disruption index depends on length of citation window

• Lutz Bornmann ^[1] ; Alexander Tekles ^[1]
  1. [1] Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society

     Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society

     Berlin, Stadt, Alemania

     
• Localización: El profesional de la información, ISSN-e 1699-2407, ISSN 1386-6710, Vol. 28, Nº 2, 2019 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Información y comunicación biomédica)
• Idioma: inglés
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  • 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).