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of DNA—a triple helix, suggested by the chemist Linus Pauling—out of the water, using new techniques to clearly demonstrate, with no small amount of assistance from Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin, that DNA was in fact a double helix. According to Google Scholar, Pauling’s incorrect triple-helix paper has been cited 420 times. By contrast, Watson and Crick’s double-helix paper has been cited 17,136 times.
And finally, how many studies do we actually want to be “disruptive”? Imagine the extreme case where every single scientific study was disruptive, showing us that older research wasn’t just a bit inaccurate, but totally wrong. This would be a deeply confusing, whiplash-inducing world, where all our knowledge would constantly be in doubt. We definitely want disruptive papers to appear every so often, but it’s not clear that a very high level of disruptiveness is necessarily a good thing .
By the way, there’s also a secondary analysis in the study that I found utterly unpersuasive. It’s about the use of certain words in the titles of papers over time. The authors argue that words that imply creativity are disappearing from paper titles, and are being replaced with words that imply gradual improvements on pre-existing concepts. But the words they choose are just weird.
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