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Disruptive content, cross agglomeration interaction, and agglomeration replacement: Does cohesion foster strength?

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  • Tang, Kun
  • Li, Baiyang
  • Zhu, Qiyu
  • Ma, Lecun

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A trend in the academic field is agglomerations among scholars to generate knowledge with a disruptive influence on science and technology; however, the benefits have not been fully substantiated. This paper analyzes over 660,000 papers on artificial intelligence published from 1961 to 2023. We propose a method to calculate the innovative capacity of disruptive knowledge based on the similarity of historical, current, and future keywords, finding that scholars who commence their scientific endeavors earlier possess a heightened capability for disruptive knowledge innovation as Dkc index. The analysis reveals that multiagglomeration scholars have the highest average number of publications and citations, followed by agglomeration-flow scholars. Moreover, a larger agglomeration results in a lower ability to disrupt and consolidate knowledge innovation. Multiagglomeration and agglomeration-flow scholars harm disruptive/consolidative innovations. However, as the agglomeration effect intensifies, these two types of scholars from the disruptive perspective and multiagglomeration scholars from the consolidation perspective have a diminishing marginal effect on innovation capacity. The agglomeration size acts as a partial intermediary in the Multi→Size→Dkc index from the dual perspective and as a full mediator in the Flow→Size→Dkc index from the disruptive perspective, but only with a direct effect from the consolidative perspective.

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  • Tang, Kun & Li, Baiyang & Zhu, Qiyu & Ma, Lecun, 2024. "Disruptive content, cross agglomeration interaction, and agglomeration replacement: Does cohesion foster strength?," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 18(4).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:infome:v:18:y:2024:i:4:s1751157724000828
    DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2024.101570
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