Document (#15763)

Author

Campanario, J.M.

Title

Using 'Citation Classics' to study the incidence of serendipity in scientific discovery

Source

Scientometrics. 37(1996) no.1, S.3-24

Year

1996

Abstract

Suggests that the literature on the role of chance, error or accident in scientific progress tends to be anecdotal, hagiographic and rarely systematic. In contrast, presents a new approach to this topic, the study of serendipity in scietific discovery. Bases the approach on the study of highly cited papers obtained from the 'Citation Classics' feature of 'Current Contents'. Reports on the analysis of 205 'Citation Classics' commentaries from the 400 most cited papers in the recent history of science, and presents the results of the analysis

Theme

Informetrie

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