Convergent validity of several indicators measuring disruptiveness with milestone assignments to physics papers by experts

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Highlights：

• Disruptive research diverges from current lines of research by opening up new lines.

• We investigated the convergent validity of several indicators measuring disruptiveness.

• We used a list of milestone papers, selected and published by editors of Physical Review Letters.

• We investigated whether this editor-based list is related to values of the disruption indicators variants.

• The results show that the indicators correlate differently with the milestone paper assignments by the editors.

摘要

•Disruptive research diverges from current lines of research by opening up new lines.•We investigated the convergent validity of several indicators measuring disruptiveness.•We used a list of milestone papers, selected and published by editors of Physical Review Letters.•We investigated whether this editor-based list is related to values of the disruption indicators variants.•The results show that the indicators correlate differently with the milestone paper assignments by the editors.

论文关键词：Bibliometrics,Convergent validity,Disruption index,Physical Review Letters

论文评审过程：Received 15 October 2020, Revised 22 January 2021, Accepted 23 March 2021, Available online 5 April 2021, Version of Record 5 April 2021.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2021.101159