The Appraisal – Scientific disruption: what is it, and do we need it? – Cancer Research UK

Some helpful hyperlinks:

“The variety of science and expertise analysis papers printed has skyrocketed over the previous few many years — however the ‘disruptiveness’ of these papers has dropped, in keeping with an evaluation of how radically papers depart from the earlier literature”
The Nature paper on ‘disruption in science’.

“Grants, for instance, typically err on the aspect of secure bets, leading to printed analysis that solely marginally advances present information.”

STAT News article by Juergen Eckhardt of Leaps by Bayer and George Church at Harvard Medical College and the Massachusetts Institute of Know-how.