Citation: Jing Zhu, Ming Chen, He Liang, Quanmin Li, Xuefeng Jiang. Research strategies in click chemistry: Measuring its cognitive contents and knowledge flow[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2023, 34(2): 107936. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2022.107936 shu

Research strategies in click chemistry: Measuring its cognitive contents and knowledge flow

Jing Zhu ^a ,
Ming Chen ^a ,
He Liang ^b ,
Quanmin Li ^a ,
Xuefeng Jiang ^{c, *,}

a.
Department of Philosophy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
b.
School of Journalism, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
c.
Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Chemical Process, Department of Chemistry, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

xfjiang@chem.ecnu.edu.cn

Received Date: 7 October 2022
Revised Date: 12 October 2022
Accepted Date: 13 October 2022
Available Online: 22 October 2022

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The issue about how outstanding scientists obtained innovative findings has drawn the interest of researchers in science, policy and scientometrics. Here, we attempt to address this question by using computational methods to measure the cognitive content and concepts of K. Barry Sharpless' research and estimate the knowledge flow of his click chemistry to other fields. First, we traced Sharpless' conceptual journey over time through topic modeling approach, mapping and clustering of the epistemic network from distant reading his publications. We find that connectivity and functions, the core features of click chemistry, are embodied in his constant search for simplicity. What makes simplicity possible is his continuous work with collaborators on reactivity and reaction mechanisms. Moreover, citation and link analysis show that click chemistry had a much richer impact on other research fields than what is generally acknowledged, and drew solutions to significant and practical questions back to chemistry from biology. Together with these findings, we propose that the click chemistry philosophy follows the way that values nature's principle. Chemistry has a clear-cut epistemic domain in modeling Nature. Thus, click chemistry as a concept on doing science beyond a connective technology goes across the boundaries between disciplines and impacts many other fields.
- Click chemistry,
- K. B. Sharpless,
- Research strategies,
- Connectivity,
- History and philosophy of chemistry
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