It seems like we should be accounting somehow for the total number of papers published in a field. Assuming that a constant level of “disruptive science” occurs per year, then more published papers would lead to less average disruptiveness. So, rather than measuring disruptiveness per paper maybe we should be looking at disruptiveness per year or even per worker-year.
It seems like we should be accounting somehow for the total number of papers published in a field. Assuming that a constant level of “disruptive science” occurs per year, then more published papers would lead to less average disruptiveness. So, rather than measuring disruptiveness per paper maybe we should be looking at disruptiveness per year or even per worker-year.