The “disruption” metric the authors used for the analysis in that last retweet is very interesting.
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Key intuition: if my forward cites reference my backward cites, then my work is cumulative; if they do not, it's disruptive. The disruption index (if you don't like the term, think of it as "interesting novelty") is distributed on the interval ]-1;1[. [5/12]
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