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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.
Zeng, Lin (59304657200); Shi, Yihan (59304657100); Subatijang, Parhati (59350252900); Zhang, Lei (59350368800); Gao, Jian (59276502500); Sun, Rongxin (56574635100); Jiang, Kan (57370621600)
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2025
10.1016/j.jor.2024.09.017
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85205361667&doi=10.1016%2fj.jor.2024.09.017&partnerID=40&md5=4229a5e01e71046df9b23673cd8f5a62
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