Creative Destruction: The Structural Consequences of Scientific Curation
Creative Destruction: The Structural Consequences of Scientific Curation
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DOI：
10.1177/0003122421996323
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发表时间：
2021-03-18
影响因子：
9.1
通讯作者：
McFarland, Daniel A.
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作者：
McMahan, Peter;McFarland, Daniel A.
科学发现的交流是学术话语的基础。在这篇文章中，我们展示了学术评论文章，一种典型的解释性学术输出形式，执行的策展工作实质上改变了他们旨在总结的研究社区。使用数百万篇期刊文章的语料库，我们分析了评论文章对他们引用的出版物的影响，重点是引文和共引作为学术关注的指标。我们的分析表明，一方面，被正式评论文章引用的论文在未来的引用中通常会经历戏剧性的损失。通常，评论会被引用，而不是评论中提到的具体文章。另一方面，评论整理、综合和简化与研究主题有关的文献。大多数审查确定了不同的工作集群，并强调了将该主题作为一个整体整合起来的模范桥梁。这些衔接作品，除了回顾之外，还成为对未来主题的速记描述，并受到不成比例的关注。通过这种方式，正式审查进行创造性的破坏，以使日益膨胀和多余的知识体系变得清晰和可理解。
Communication of scientific findings is fundamental to scholarly discourse. In this article, we show that academic review articles, a quintessential form of interpretive scholarly output, perform curatorial work that substantially transforms the research communities they aim to summarize. Using a corpus of millions of journal articles, we analyze the consequences of review articles for the publications they cite, focusing on citation and co-citation as indicators of scholarly attention. Our analysis shows that, on the one hand, papers cited by formal review articles generally experience a dramatic loss in future citations. Typically, the review gets cited instead of the specific articles mentioned in the review. On the other hand, reviews curate, synthesize, and simplify the literature concerning a research topic. Most reviews identify distinct clusters of work and highlight exemplary bridges that integrate the topic as a whole. These bridging works, in addition to the review, become a shorthand characterization of the topic going forward and receive disproportionate attention. In this manner, formal reviews perform creative destruction so as to render increasingly expansive and redundant bodies of knowledge distinct and comprehensible.