Dear Lis-Bibliometrics colleagues,

A new paper published last week claims that metrics used by funding agencies may lead to bias against novel research (see http://voxeu.org/article/bias-against-novelty-science).  I’d be interested in your views!  Especially on the way they’ve characterised ‘novel’ research: “whether an article makes new combinations of referenced journals that have never appeared in prior literature”…

All best

Lizzie

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