TY - GEN
T1 - Does academic breakthrough lean on the shoulders of giants? A bibliometric investigation of social science
AU - Qian, Y. J.
AU - Yan, X. M.
AU - Li, J. M.
AU - Lin, J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/10/31
Y1 - 2014/10/31
N2 - The purpose of this research is to test the classic aphorism attributed to Isaac Newton as who has seen farther, that is because he stood on the shoulders of giants. We test the aphorism by investigating academic research in social science, including economics & business, social sciences general, and psychiatry/psychology. We first argue that if an article is developed on a previous work then some articles relating to this work should be also cited. Then we show that academic breakthrough is more likely to happen, if it is developed on highly cited articles, which is defined as the top 1% articles based on citations. Moreover, we show that citing highly cited articles but not developed on them do not help academic breakthrough.
AB - The purpose of this research is to test the classic aphorism attributed to Isaac Newton as who has seen farther, that is because he stood on the shoulders of giants. We test the aphorism by investigating academic research in social science, including economics & business, social sciences general, and psychiatry/psychology. We first argue that if an article is developed on a previous work then some articles relating to this work should be also cited. Then we show that academic breakthrough is more likely to happen, if it is developed on highly cited articles, which is defined as the top 1% articles based on citations. Moreover, we show that citing highly cited articles but not developed on them do not help academic breakthrough.
KW - academic breakthrough
KW - depth citation
KW - highly cited articles
KW - social science
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84912144788
U2 - 10.1109/ICMIT.2014.6942402
DO - 10.1109/ICMIT.2014.6942402
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:84912144788
T3 - ICMIT 2014 - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology
SP - 66
EP - 70
BT - ICMIT 2014 - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology, ICMIT 2014
Y2 - 23 September 2014 through 25 September 2014
ER -