Towards an explanatory and computational theory of scientific discovery

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 191-209

  Chen, Chaomei ^a,b   Chen, Yue ^b   Horowitz, Mark ^a   Hou, Haiyan ^b   Liu, Zeyuan ^b   Pellegrino, Donald ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Information foraging; Intellectual brokerage; Knowledge diffusion; Theory of scientific discovery; Theory of structural holes; Transformative scientific discoveries

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349205540     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2009.03.004     Document Type: Article

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