Yu & Romero, Does the use of unusual combinations of datasets contribute to greater scientific impact?
2024-10-02 → 2026-09-20
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2402802121
- Yulin Yu, Daniel M. Romero
Science of science, Combinatorial novelty, Dataset
Extends the atypical journal-reference combinations framework of Uzzi2013atypical to dataset combinations and complements the content/context surprise model of Shi2023surprising.
Yu et al. (2026) extends this from unusual dataset combinations to repurposing a dataset across research questions and tests its relationship with scientific disruption.