Bridging Research Idea
A research idea that spans two or more independent fields by connecting their methods or concepts. Such ideas have a relatively low generation threshold but tend to have low survival rates in academic publication due to difficulties in disciplinary attribution and conservative peer review practices.
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The commentary proposes a mechanistic hypothesis: bridge-like or synthesis-like ideas are relatively easy to generate but relatively unlikely to survive the publication stage.
Bridge-like ideas refer to ideas that span two or more originally independent research fields and connect their methods or concepts.
If the bridge-like idea hypothesis holds, the published human baseline would systematically underestimate the actual proportion of such ideas in the true pool of human ideas.
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The commentary proposes a mechanistic hypothesis: bridge-like or synthesis-like ideas are relatively easy to generate but relatively unlikely to survive the publication stage.
50%UnverifiedBridge-like ideas refer to ideas that span two or more originally independent research fields and connect their methods or concepts.
50%UnverifiedIf the bridge-like idea hypothesis holds, the published human baseline would systematically underestimate the actual proportion of such ideas in the true pool of human ideas.
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