Proliferation dynamics in new sciences |
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Authors: | Andrea Bonaccorsi Juan Vargas |
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Institution: | School of Engineering, Department of Electric Systems and Automation, Largo Lucio Lazzarino 2, 56126 Pisa, Italy |
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Abstract: | The paper studies the dynamics of production of knowledge in an emergent scientific field, Nanoscience. It suggests that scientific knowledge advances by proliferation, or the turbulent entry of new sub-fields, each generating opportunities for further entries at each time. It suggests a new methodology to define and measure the dynamics of knowledge, based on the industrial dynamics of keywords and a formal representation through bipartite graphs. An empirical examination of the graph dynamics in the early stage of the scientific field (1988-2002) confirms the notion of proliferation. |
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Keywords: | Dynamics of knowledge Degree of diversity Proliferation pattern Paradigmatic pluralism Convergence |
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