Atypical Combinations and Scientific Impact

By Brian Uzzi, Satyam Mukherjee, Michael J. Stringer, Benjamin F. Jones. Science, 2013

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science, Statistics and Probability

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Duality in Diversity: How Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Cultural Heterogeneity Relate to Firm Performance (2019, background): “Core to this view is the assumption that creativity—the application of novel and useful solutions to problems (Amabile, 1988, 1996)—stems from the ability to recombine existing ideas in unconventional ways (Fleming, 2001; Uzzi et al., 2013; de Vaan, Vedres, and Stark, 2015).”
Scientific novelty and technological impact (2019, background): “In addition, we control for the number of backward references of the focal scientific publication and its number of authors, which have been observed to be correlated with novelty (Uzzi et al., 2013; Lee et al., 2015; Wang et al., 2018), as well as technological impact (Popp, 2017).”
The Diversity–Innovation Paradox in Science (2019, background): “2 million) where we identify scientific innovations (14–19) and analyze the rates at which different demographic groups relate scientific concepts in novel ways, the extent to which those novel conceptual relations get taken up by other scholars, how “distal” those linkages are (14), and the subsequ”
Creativity at the Knowledge Frontier: The Impact of Specialization in Fast- and Slow-paced Domains* (2018, methodology): “We follow a growing literature using scientific publications to measure scientists’ creative output (e.g., Jones and Weinberg, 2011; Uzzi et al., 2013; Leahey, Beckman, and Stanko, 2017).”
Frontier Knowledge and Scientific Production: Evidence from the Collapse of International Science (2018, background): “The existing literature has shown that papers that cite “atypical combinations” of references are more likely to become a “hit” (Uzzi et al., 2013; Wang et al., 2016), as are papers that predominantly cite recent as well as some older references (Mukher- 2Increased funding for universities and the…”
Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science (2015, background): “Both Broadway and scientific teams aim to advance novel ideas and be creative (Uzzi et al., 2013).”