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Russell J. Funk

Minneapolis
As seen in: Nature, arXiv, MDPI, SAGE Publishing, JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association), American Journal of Managed Care, Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
Russell Funk is a professor at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management, where he studies information and communication networks.
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Reply to: Dataset artefacts can partially drive the measured decline in disruption

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By Michael Park, Erin Leahey, Russell J. Funk
| Nature Verified
replying to: V. Holst et al. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10787-y (2026). In the accompanying Comment1, Holst et al. claim that the decline in disruptiveness that we documented in Park et al.2 is an artefact of including works that do not cite any references (that is, have zero backward citations). Using the dataset, metric and method advocated by Holst et al.1, we find declines equivalent to benchmark transformations in science.
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When disruption endures - Nature Computational Science

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By Russell J. Funk
| Nature Verified
A new framework disentangles the nature of disruption in science, revealing how rare but persistent breakthroughs shake the foundations of research fields while remaining central to future work.
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Conceptual structure and the growth of scientific knowledge - Nature Human Behaviour

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By Russell J. Funk, Kara Kedrick
| Nature Verified
Abstract How does scientific knowledge grow? This question has occupied a central place in the philosophy of science, stimulating heated debates but yielding no clear consensus. Many explanations can be understood in terms of whether and how they view the expansion of knowledge as proceeding through the accretion of scientific concepts into larger conceptual structures.
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