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Specification uncertainty: what the disruption index tells us about the (hidden) multiverse of bibliometric indicators

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Following Funk and Owen-Smith (Manag Sci 63:791–817, 2017), Wu et al. (Nature 566:378–382, 2019) proposed the disruption index (DI 1 ) 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 and Bornmann in Scientometrics 129:601–639, 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 DI 1 (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.
Autores
Moura, LKB; de Azevedo, UN; Wingerter, DG; Ferreira, MAF; Maciel, MPR; Moura, RP; da Silva, AM; Alves, MSCF
Título
Bibliometric analysis of the scientific evidence on violence perpetrated against the elderly
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Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Año
2020
DOI
10.1590/1413-81232020256.226322018
Tipo de acceso abierto
Green Published, gold
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WOS:000538942600015
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