Quantifying simultaneous innovations in evolutionary medicine

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Quantifying simultaneous innovations in evolutionary medicine. / Painter, Deryc T.; van der Wouden, Frank; Laubichler, Manfred D. et al.
in: Theory in Biosciences, Jahrgang 139, Nr. 4, 12.2020, S. 319-335.

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Painter DT, van der Wouden F, Laubichler MD, Youn H. Quantifying simultaneous innovations in evolutionary medicine. Theory in Biosciences. 2020 Dez;139(4):319-335. Epub 2020 Nov 25. doi: 10.1007/s12064-020-00333-3

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title = "Quantifying simultaneous innovations in evolutionary medicine",
abstract = "To what extent do simultaneous innovations occur and are independently from each other? In this paper we use a novel persistent keyword framework to systematically identify innovations in a large corpus containing academic papers in evolutionary medicine between 2007 and 2011. We examine whether innovative papers occurring simultaneously are independent from each other by evaluating the citation and co-authorship information gathered from the corpus metadata. We find that 19 out of 22 simultaneous innovative papers do, in fact, occur independently from each other. In particular, co-authors of simultaneous innovative papers are no more geographically concentrated than the co-authors of similar non-innovative papers in the field. Our result suggests producing innovative work draws from a collective knowledge pool, rather than from knowledge circulating in distinct localized collaboration networks. Therefore, new ideas can appear at multiple locations and with geographically dispersed co-authorship networks. Our findings support the perspective that simultaneous innovations are the outcome of collective behavior.",
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