The Decline in the Transmission of Scientific Ideas
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We document that the diffusion of new scientific ideas beyond their field of origin has declined substantially over the past four decades. This contraction is closely linked to increasing specialization in scientific language: research that employs more technical terminology tends to be adopted less broadly. We develop a theory of scientific discovery in which the […]
We document that the diffusion of new scientific ideas beyond their field of origin has declined substantially over the past four decades. This contraction is c...