The Statistical Validation of Innovation Lens
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2025-08-21 v1 Artificial Intelligence
Abstract
Information overload and the rapid pace of scientific advancement make it increasingly difficult to evaluate and allocate resources to new research proposals. Is there a structure to scientific discovery that could inform such decisions? We present statistical evidence for such structure, by training a classifier that successfully predicts high-citation research papers between 2010-2024 in the Computer Science, Physics, and PubMed domains.
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@article{arxiv.2508.14139,
title = {The Statistical Validation of Innovation Lens},
author = {Giacomo Radaelli and Jonah Lynch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.14139},
year = {2025}
}
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7 pages, 6 figures