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SUBMITTER: Thurner S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7117651 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20200402 4
Is it possible to tell how interdisciplinary and out-of-the-box scientific papers are, or which papers are mainstream? Here we use the bibliographic coupling network, derived from all physics papers that were published in the Physical Review journals in the past century, to try to identify them as mainstream, out-of-the-box, or interdisciplinary. We show that the network clusters into scientific fields. The position of individual papers with respect to these clusters allows us to estimate their ...[more]