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The proportion of publications that send a field in a new direction has plummeted over the past half-century.
The number of science and technology research papers published has skyrocketed over the past few decades — but the ‘disruptiveness’ of those papers has dropped, according to an analysis of how radically papers depart from the previous literature1.
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Nature 613, 225 (2023)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-04577-5
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