{"id":852888,"date":"2026-08-12T19:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/852888\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T19:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:06:15","slug":"dataset-artefacts-can-partially-drive-the-measured-decline-in-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/852888\/","title":{"rendered":"Dataset artefacts can partially drive the measured decline in disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This figure displays the average CD5 index over time for six data sources and five different patent categories. The data sources are\u00a0JSTOR (1,588,088 papers), the\u00a0American Physical Society corpus (461,359 papers),\u00a0Microsoft Academic Graph (random sample of 1,000,000 papers), and\u00a0PubMed (1,563,211 papers). For reference, the\u00a0Web of Science (22,479,429 papers) and\u00a0PatentsView (2,926,923 patents) data sources are also included. The patent categories are\u00a0Chemical (517,964 patents), Computers and communications (748,849 patents),\u00a0Drugs and medical (321,449 patents),\u00a0Electrical and electronic (734,769 patents), and\u00a0Mechanical (603,892 patents). Shaded bands correspond to 95% confidence intervals. a, The temporal evolution of the average CD5 index for different data sources as presented in Park et al.<a data-track=\"click\" data-track-action=\"reference anchor\" data-track-label=\"link\" data-test=\"citation-ref\" aria-label=\"Reference 1\" title=\"Park, M., Leahey, E. &amp; Funk, R. J. Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time. Nature 613, 138&#x2013;144 (2023).\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-026-10787-y#ref-CR1\" id=\"ref-link-section-d1766306e1371\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a> (Extended Data Fig. 6 in<a data-track=\"click\" data-track-action=\"reference anchor\" data-track-label=\"link\" data-test=\"citation-ref\" aria-label=\"Reference 1\" title=\"Park, M., Leahey, E. &amp; Funk, R. J. Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time. Nature 613, 138&#x2013;144 (2023).\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-026-10787-y#ref-CR1\" id=\"ref-link-section-d1766306e1375\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a>). b, When dropping the outliers with CD5\u2009=\u20091, the decline in disruptiveness reduces by 100%, 107%, 100%, and 61% for\u00a0JSTOR, the\u00a0American Physical Society corpus,\u00a0Microsoft Academic Graph, and\u00a0PubMed, from \u22120.16, \u22120.27, \u22120.31, and \u22120.18 with outliers (panel a, 2006 vs. 1930 for\u00a0JSTOR, 2010 vs. 1930 otherwise) to \u22120.00, +0.02, \u22120.00, and \u22120.07 without (panel b, 2006 vs. 1930 for\u00a0JSTOR, 2010 vs. 1930 otherwise), respectively. c, The time evolution of the average CD5 index for different patent categories as presented in Park et al.<a data-track=\"click\" data-track-action=\"reference anchor\" data-track-label=\"link\" data-test=\"citation-ref\" aria-label=\"Reference 1\" title=\"Park, M., Leahey, E. &amp; Funk, R. J. Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time. Nature 613, 138&#x2013;144 (2023).\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-026-10787-y#ref-CR1\" id=\"ref-link-section-d1766306e1390\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a> (Fig. 2b in<a data-track=\"click\" data-track-action=\"reference anchor\" data-track-label=\"link\" data-test=\"citation-ref\" aria-label=\"Reference 1\" title=\"Park, M., Leahey, E. &amp; Funk, R. J. Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time. Nature 613, 138&#x2013;144 (2023).\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-026-10787-y#ref-CR1\" id=\"ref-link-section-d1766306e1394\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a>). d, When dropping the outliers with CD5\u2009=\u20091, the decline in disruptiveness reduces by 70%, 58%, 69%, 63 % and 71% for\u00a0Chemical,\u00a0Computers and communications, Drugs and medical,\u00a0Electrical and electronic, and\u00a0Mechanical patents, from \u22120.33, \u22120.24, \u22120.35, \u22120.32, and \u22120.38 with outliers (panel c, 2010 vs. 1980) to \u22120.10, \u22120.10, \u22120.11, \u22120.12, and \u22120.11 without (panel d, 2010 vs. 1980), respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This figure displays the average CD5 index over time for six data sources and five different patent categories.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,1320,1321,29332,128270,128,105],"class_list":["post-852888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-humanities-and-social-sciences","tag-multidisciplinary","tag-publishing","tag-research-management","tag-science","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}