“Despite the great strides in automated discovery and digitization of data that is currently occurring, however, there are limits to eurekometrics. The most important limitation is how to determine what constitutes a “discovery.” Quantifying what constitutes a discovery is never an easy proposition: Is each publication a discovery? Or do only certain ones rise to meet that definition? Furthermore, even if we can list discoveries, it needn’t necessarily be possible to quantify their properties. For example, while it’s possible to quantify the properties of minor planets and extrasolar planets, it is not nearly as easy to quantify the properties of methodological innovations made in computational fields.”
Eurekometrics: Analyzing the Nature of Discovery: PLoS Computational Biology
