New preprint: Tracing Individual Knowledge Trajectories in a Changing Field

Malte Vogl | Sep 22, 2026 min read

In this preprint we develop a methodological framework to trace individual vs field changes for authors from the field of general relativity and gravitiation. By comparing 50 author trajectories in the four measures with a background corpus we are able to paint a diverse picture of how the same author can occupy diverse temporal relations to the surrounding field, even with all measures relying on the same dataset.

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  • Authors: Raphael Schlattmann and Malte Vogl
  • Preprint: arXiv:2609.18697
  • Featured image: Referenced vocabulary and citation identity lead/lag from preprint