Tales of Serendipity in Highly Cited Research: an Explorative Study

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=4WUTpXnoEM" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=4WUTpXnoEM</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13132-019-00625-0" target="_blank" >10.1007/s13132-019-00625-0</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Tales of Serendipity in Highly Cited Research: an Explorative Study

Original language description

Research and innovation are attributed a growing role in maintaining global competitiveness; in particular, research advances are seen as important catalysts for innovation and growth. However, our understanding is still limited concerning how important research results are achieved. This is particularly the case for the role of serendipity, where discoveries or the path towards them are unexpected. This paper explores through the use of a narrative approach the role of planned and unplanned factors and presents elements for understanding how and when serendipity occurs in highly cited research. In this explorative study, we have interviewed 12 first authors, each of whom has played a key role in a highly cited piece of research. Their own perceptions of how research progressed, key turning points, and conditions for the research are important in illustrating what motivates and influences the researchers&apos; pursuit of new discoveries. The narrative approach, by introducing a temporal element, is both able to characterize the stories behind the advances, including key turning points in achieving research accomplishments, and to analyze cross-cutting themes related to researcher behavior and environment for the research.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of the Knowledge Economy

ISSN

1868-7865

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

1596-1613

UT code for WoS article

000556943800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85076730550