Disruption indices and their calculation using web-of-science data: Indicators of historical developments or evolutionary dynamics?

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Highlights:

• Regimes can incur on historical trajectories which are then disrupted.

• “Disruption” can be compared with “critical transitions” among reference lists.

• Evolutionary changes may necessitate a rewriting of history.

• Continuity is grasped more easily than disruption.

• Trajectories can be visualized; disruptions are visible as a lack of continuity.

摘要

•Regimes can incur on historical trajectories which are then disrupted.•“Disruption” can be compared with “critical transitions” among reference lists.•Evolutionary changes may necessitate a rewriting of history.•Continuity is grasped more easily than disruption.•Trajectories can be visualized; disruptions are visible as a lack of continuity.

论文关键词:Disruption,Evolutionary regime,Historical trajectory,Kullback-Leibler,Redundancy

论文评审过程:Received 1 February 2021, Revised 4 September 2021, Accepted 8 September 2021, Available online 27 September 2021, Version of Record 27 September 2021.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2021.101219