Journal
JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 73, Issue 8, Pages 1065-1078Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/asi.24612
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [72104054, 72104007]
- Youth Project of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education (MOE) of China [21YJC870001]
- Shanghai Pujiang Program [21PJC026]
- NSF RAPID [2028717]
- SBE Off Of Multidisciplinary Activities
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [2028717] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Scientific novelty is crucial for inventing new vaccines and solutions during a pandemic. First-time collaboration and international collaboration are essential channels to expand team search activities and generate novel ideas.
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.
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