Novelty Metrics

Identify novel papers by their first-time / atypical combinations.

Novelty Metrics

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Overview

Scores each paper’s novelty by how unusual its combinations of elements (keywords, references, words) are relative to what existed before — new pairings and atypical combinations signal novelty. Returns per-paper novelty metrics and the most novel subset. Text columns can be cleaned (stopwords / boilerplate) before combinations are formed.

Inputs

  • Data (Table) — bibliographic data.

Outputs

  • Per-document (Table) — novelty metrics per paper.

  • Novel Documents (Table) — papers at/above the chosen novelty percentile.

Controls

  • Combinations from — the field whose element pairings define novelty (keywords, references, words).

  • Separator — list separator for that field (hidden for free-text sources).

  • Baseline years — the prior window against which “new” combinations are judged.

  • Novel subset percentile — threshold for the Novel Documents output.

  • Remove stop words (basic + my extended list) — clean text before forming combinations.

  • Remove general/boilerplate words (concept Excel) — also drop generic terms.

Actions: Compute.