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264 Fig. 12.13 Median of conventionality and novelty with time for three fields. (a) shows the median conventionality of papers published in geography exhibit no change with time. On the contrary, median conventionality of physics and economics papers increases with time, indicating a trend towards high conventionality for both these fields. Moreover, geography does not draw enough conventional knowledge as compared to physics or economics. In (b) we show the median novelty of geography, economics, and physics. While for physics and economics, novelty decreases with time, in the case of geography there is no such behavior—a trend we observed earlier in Fig. 12.11b (Design by authors) S. Mukherjee et al.