Identifying citation patterns of scientific breakthroughs: A perspective of dynamic citation process

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Highlights：

• A dynamic citation perspective for distinguishing scientific breakthroughs from ordinary scientific works is proposed.

• Breakthrough works show slower but enduring take-off and denser networks of following works.

• Two significant traits of scientific breakthroughs are revealed, namely, prematurity and fruitfulness.

• Three metrics show particular promise for early identification of breakthrough works.

摘要

•A dynamic citation perspective for distinguishing scientific breakthroughs from ordinary scientific works is proposed.•Breakthrough works show slower but enduring take-off and denser networks of following works.•Two significant traits of scientific breakthroughs are revealed, namely, prematurity and fruitfulness.•Three metrics show particular promise for early identification of breakthrough works.

论文关键词：Scientific breakthroughs,citation pattern,citation dynamics,identifying

论文评审过程：Received 22 October 2020, Accepted 27 October 2020, Available online 3 November 2020, Version of Record 3 November 2020.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2020.102428