@article{88058de7eb0b401c8d98950fbaea48f0,
title = "Pandemics are catalysts of scientific novelty: Evidence from COVID-19",
abstract = "Scientific novelty drives the efforts to invent new vaccines and solutions during the pandemic. First-time collaboration and international collaboration are two pivotal channels to expand teams' search activities for a broader scope of resources required to address the global challenge, which might facilitate the generation of novel ideas. Our analysis of 98,981 coronavirus papers suggests that scientific novelty measured by the BioBERT model that is pretrained on 29 million PubMed articles, and first-time collaboration increased after the outbreak of COVID-19, and international collaboration witnessed a sudden decrease. During COVID-19, papers with more first-time collaboration were found to be more novel and international collaboration did not hamper novelty as it had done in the normal periods. The findings suggest the necessity of reaching out for distant resources and the importance of maintaining a collaborative scientific community beyond nationalism during a pandemic.",
author = "Meijun Liu and Yi Bu and Chongyan Chen and Jian Xu and Daifeng Li and Yan Leng and Freeman, {Richard B.} and Meyer, {Eric T.} and Wonjin Yoon and Mujeen Sung and Minbyul Jeong and Jinhyuk Lee and Jaewoo Kang and Chao Min and Min Song and Yujia Zhai and Ying Ding",
note = "Funding Information: This paper was sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No: 72104054 and No: 72104007), the Youth Project of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education (MOE) of China (No: 21YJC870001), and Shanghai Pujiang Program (No: 21PJC026). Ying Ding would like to acknowledge the funding support from NSF RAPID 2028717. The authors sincerely thank the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments to improve the quality of this paper. The authors thank S. L. Liu for major contribution in idealization stage. 1 Funding Information: Acknowledgements This paper was sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No: 72104054 and No: 72104007), the Youth Project of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education (MOE) of China (No: 21YJC870001), and Shanghai Pujiang Program (No: 21PJC026). Ying Ding would like to acknowledge the funding support from NSF RAPID 2028717. The authors sincerely thank the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments to improve the quality of this paper. The authors thank S. L. Liu for major contribution in idealization stage. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 Association for Information Science and Technology.",
year = "2022",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1002/asi.24612",
language = "English",
volume = "73",
pages = "1065--1078",
journal = "Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology",
issn = "2330-1635",
publisher = "John Wiley and Sons Ltd",
number = "8",
}
