2021
DOI: 10.7554/elife.72737
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Abstract: Disagreement is essential to scientific progress but the extent of disagreement in science, its evolution over time, and the fields in which it happens remain poorly understood. Here we report the development of an approach based on cue phrases that can identify instances of disagreement in scientific articles. These instances are sentences in an article that cite other articles. Applying this approach to a collection of more than four million English-language articles published between 2000 and 2015 period, w… Show more

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“…Another category of problems concerns whether citations really capture the idea of "influence" or impact: not all influences are cited and some works are cited that have no influence (so-called perfunctory citations). There are different types of citations (Bornmann and Daniel, 2008a), which do not show an equal influence, with some citations for example being negative (Lamers et al, 2021). This does not necessarily mean that highly-cited publications are not influential.…”
Section: B Metricsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Another category of problems concerns whether citations really capture the idea of "influence" or impact: not all influences are cited and some works are cited that have no influence (so-called perfunctory citations). There are different types of citations (Bornmann and Daniel, 2008a), which do not show an equal influence, with some citations for example being negative (Lamers et al, 2021). This does not necessarily mean that highly-cited publications are not influential.…”
Section: B Metricsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We study the dual question: whether negative papers (in our sense) receive more citations. Lamers et al [33] study disagreement in science across diverse fields, which is a related concept to that of negative citations, finding that there is highest disagreement in the social sciences and humanities, and lowest disagreement in mathematics and computer science (of which AI is a subfield).…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In addition, we note the importance for scientific reasoning of displaying disputes and controversies. A recent bibliometric analysis, studying scientific disagreements on a large scale [12], highlights the importance of "relative differences" as well as the "heterogeneity" of observed practices of disagreements. We therefore speculate that the representation of differences in retrieval practices of predecessors in cliques, which is a result that AI can perform with neutrality, can help users verify and secure their own assessment shifts on methods or on results, with regard to the observed usage of the other members of a cognitive community, labeled by keywords.…”
Section: Modeling An 'Assessor's Shift' In Assistance To Scientific R...mentioning
confidence: 99%
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