What’s really new in this work? | Nature Biomedical Engineering

At first glance, some research articles published in the journal may appear to lack substantial novelty.

At first glance, some research articles published in the journal may appear to lack substantial novelty. In the book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn emphasized that “novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation”1. Indeed, discovering new knowledge or making something new is laborious. And many scientists have seen their novel scientific output being met with some degree of opposition, especially when what’s new challenges established understanding or methodology, or puts at risk someone’s scientific agenda,…

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