https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2021/07/investigating-impact-novelty-and_22.html
Still following the paper in the link above, about the impact, novelty, and disruption using almost 88 million journal articles published in the last 200 years, check a most recent paper published yesterday in Scientometrics, about a new method to discover star inventors.
PS - Check Table 1 about the methods for the identification of (research) stars in previous works https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-022-04328-3#Sec14
