Combination of research questions and methods: A new measurement of scientific novelty

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Highlights：

• Introduce a new approach to measuring paper's novelty from the viewpoint of question-method combination.

• A life-index novelty measurement based on the frequency and age of terms is demonstrated.

• A novelty measurement algorithm based on the semantic similarity of terms is proposed.

• The effectiveness of the two proposed methods is demonstrated by case studies and statistical analysis.

摘要

•Introduce a new approach to measuring paper's novelty from the viewpoint of question-method combination.•A life-index novelty measurement based on the frequency and age of terms is demonstrated.•A novelty measurement algorithm based on the semantic similarity of terms is proposed.•The effectiveness of the two proposed methods is demonstrated by case studies and statistical analysis.

论文关键词：Scientific novelty,Novelty measurement,Combinational novelty,Deep learning

论文评审过程：Received 1 March 2021, Revised 11 February 2022, Accepted 17 March 2022, Available online 11 April 2022, Version of Record 11 April 2022.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2022.101282