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Journal types
Journals
Year range
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Disruptiveness index (−1 to 1)
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Filters the Team-science figures below — the papers with a computed disruption index.
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Publication volume over time
Papers published per year
Average co-authors per paper
Mean number of authors, by year
Co-authorship distribution
Share of papers by number of authors, within scope
Papers by journal
Within the selected scope
Citation impact by journal
Average citations per paper, within scope
Journal share over time
Each journal's share of the selected papers, by year
Editorial area trends
Management Science papers per year, by editorial area
Most-cited papers in scope
Citation counts from Crossref (is-referenced-by-count). Titles link to their DOI.
Team science — do small teams disrupt?
Reproducing the key measures of Wu, Wang & Evans, “Large teams develop and small teams disrupt science and technology” (Nature 570, 2019) over the slice of The Lit's citation graph mapped so far. Every figure below honours the filters at the top of the page, and sharpens as more of the reference graph is built.
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How we measure disruption
The disruption index D (Funk & Owen-Smith 2017) — read straight off the citation network, not the citation count.
Distribution of disruption
Every scored paper's D, from developing (D<0) to disrupting (D>0). Most work sits near zero — the paper's Fig. 1b.
Disruption and impact by team size
The signature result: as teams grow, disruption falls while citations rise.
How teams search the literature
Small teams reach for older, less-cited work (deep search); large teams build on recent, popular work.
Who lands in the extremes
Over- / under-representation by team size among the most-disruptive and the most-cited work (1.0 = as expected if spread evenly).
Most disruptive papers in scope
Highest D — work later cited on its own, apart from its antecedents.
Most developing papers in scope
Lowest D — work cited alongside the prior art it consolidated and extended.
Most disruptive & most developmental authors
Each author's Dj — the mean of D over every paper they wrote or co-wrote in scope.
Most disruptive
Most developmental
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how many papers, in which journals, and how their output has evolved over time.
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