James A. Evans

ORCID: 0000-0001-9838-0707 · 1 paper in corpus

2023

Surprising combinations of research contents and contexts are related to impact and emerge with scientific outsiders from distant disciplines.

Nature communications ·doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36741-4

We investigate the degree to which impact in science and technology is associated with surprising breakthroughs, and how those breakthroughs arise. Identifying breakthroughs across science and technology requires models that distinguish sur…