Specification uncertainty: What the disruption index tells us about the (hidden) multiverse of bibliometric indicators
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| author | Leibel, Christian Bornmann, Lutz |
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| contents | Following Funk and Owen-Smith (2017), Wu et al. (2019) proposed the disruption index (DI1) as a bibliometric indicator that measures disruptive and consolidating research. When we summarized the literature on the disruption index for our recently published review article (Leibel & Bornmann, 2024), we noticed that the calculation of disruption scores comes with numerous (hidden) degrees of freedom. In this Letter to the Editor, we explain based on the DI1 (as an example) why the analytical flexibility of bibliometric indicators potentially endangers the credibility of research and advertise the application of multiverse-style methods to increase the transparency of the research. |
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| spellingShingle | Specification uncertainty: What the disruption index tells us about the (hidden) multiverse of bibliometric indicators Leibel, Christian Bornmann, Lutz Digital Libraries J.4 Following Funk and Owen-Smith (2017), Wu et al. (2019) proposed the disruption index (DI1) as a bibliometric indicator that measures disruptive and consolidating research. When we summarized the literature on the disruption index for our recently published review article (Leibel & Bornmann, 2024), we noticed that the calculation of disruption scores comes with numerous (hidden) degrees of freedom. In this Letter to the Editor, we explain based on the DI1 (as an example) why the analytical flexibility of bibliometric indicators potentially endangers the credibility of research and advertise the application of multiverse-style methods to increase the transparency of the research. |
| title | Specification uncertainty: What the disruption index tells us about the (hidden) multiverse of bibliometric indicators |
| topic | Digital Libraries J.4 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13367 |