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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
Aguilar-Morales, SY; Negrete-Cardoso, M; Rosano-Ortega, G; Sanchez-Ruiz, FJ; Sanchez-Baltasar, LB; Vega-Lebrun, CA; Schabes-Retchkiman, PS
Título
Marketing strategies for waste recycling: a bibliometric analysis towards the circular economy
Afiliaciones
Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla; Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Año
2023
DOI
10.1007/s11356-023-27040-y
Tipo de acceso abierto
Green Submitted, Bronze, Green Published
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