The following is a selection of serendipity publications drawn from a range of fields and disciplines. This page is a continuing work-in-progress. If you have any suggested additions to this list or want to report a broken link, please contact us.
Agarwal, N.K. (2015). Towards a definition of serendipity in information behaviour. Information Research, 20(3), paper 675. Retrieved from http://InformationR.net/ir/20-3/pape675.html
Åkerström, M. (2013). Curiosity and serendipity in qualitative research. Qualitative Sociology Review, 9(2): 10-18 [Special Issue: Curiosity and Serendipity in Qualitative Research]. Retrieved from https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/publication/4434010
Allen, C. M., Erdelez, S. & Marinov, M. (2013). Looking for opportunistic discovery of information in recent biomedical research: A content analysis. Proceedings of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, 50(1), 1–11.
André, P. & schrafel, m.c. (2009). Computing and chance: Designing for(un)serendipity. The Biochemist E-Volution, 31(6), 19-22.
André P., Teevan J., & Dumais S.T. (2009). From x-rays to silly putty via Uranus: Serendipity and its role in web search. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’09) (pp. 2033-2036).
Andriani, P. (2017). Exaptation, serendipity and aging. Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, 163, 30-35.
Andriani, P. & Cattani, G. (2016). Exaptation as Source of Creativity, Innovation, and Diversity: Introduction to the Special Section. Industrial and Corporate Change, 25(1), 115-131.
Andriani, P., Ali, A., & Mastrogiorgio, M. (2017). Measuring Exaptation and Its Impact on Innovation, Search, and Problem Solving. Organization Science, 28(2), 320-338.
Austin, J. H. (2003). Chase, chance, and creativity: The lucky art of novelty. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Avraham T., Plesser R., & Nachmias R. (2016). Potentially-serendipitous gain for MOOC participants: A pilot study. In Proceedings of the 3rd Learning With MOOCs Conference (LWMOOCs2016) (in print)
Ban, T.A. (2006). The role of serendipity in drug discovery. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 8(3): 335-344. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181823/
Bandura, A. (1982). The psychology of chance encounters and life paths. American Psychologist, 37(7): 747-755. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.37.7.747
Bardone, E. (2011). Seeking Chances: From Biased Rationality to Distributed Cognition. Springer.
Bardone, E. (2012). Not by Luck Alone: The Importance of Chance-Seeking and Silent Knowledge in Abductive Cognition. In, Philosophy and Cognitive Science, editors L. Magnani and P.Li, SAPERE 2, pages 185-203. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
Bardone, E. (2016). Intervening via chance-seeking. pp. 203-220. In: Secchi, Davide & Neumann, Martin (eds.). Agent-Based Simulation of Organizational Behavior. New Frontiers of Social Science Research. Springer.
Bardone, E. (2017). Learners as chance-seekers. pp. 213-236. In: Allert, Heidrun et al. (eds.]. Digitalität und Selbst: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Subjektivierungs- und Bildungsprozesse. Transcript Verlag.
Barber, B., & Fox, R. C. (1958). The case of the floppy-eared rabbits: An instance of serendipity gained and serendipity lost. The American Journal of Sociology, 64(2), 128-136.
Baumeister, A. A., Hawkins, M. F., & López-Muñoz, F. (2010). Toward standardized usage of the word serendipity in the historiography of psychopharmacology. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 19, 253–70.
Bawden, D. (1986). Information systems and the stimulation of creativity. Journal of Information Science, 12(5): 203-216. doi: 10.1177/016555158601200501
Bawden, D. (2011). Encountering on the road to Serendip? Browsing in new information environments. pp. 1-22. In: Foster, A., & Rafferty, P. (eds.). Innovations in Information Retrieval: Perspectives for Theory and Practice. London: Facet Publishing. Retrieved from https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:12935/
Beale, R. (2007). Supporting serendipity: Using ambient intelligence to augment user exploration for data mining and web browsing. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 65(5): 421-433. Retrieved from http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1227931
Bedessem, B. & Ruphy, S. (2016). Serendipity: An argument for scientific freedom? PSA2016: The 25th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association.
Beitman, B.D. (2011). Coincidence Studies. Psychiatric Annals. 41(2): 561-571.
Benjamin, W., Chandrasegaran, S., Ramanujan, D., Elmqvist, N., Vishwanathan, S.V.N. & Ramani, K. (2014). Juxtapoze: Supporting serendipity and creative expression in clipart compositions. pp. 341-350. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2014, April 26 – May 1, 2014, Toronto, Canada.
Bernier, C.L. (1960). Correlative indexes VI: Serendipity, suggestiveness, and display. American Documentation, 11(4): 277-287. doi: 10.1002/asi.5090110402
Betsworth, D. G., & Hansen, J.-I. C. (1996). The categorization of serendipitous career development events. Journal of Career Assessment, 4(1):91-98.
Björneborn, L. (2017). Three key affordances for serendipity: Toward a framework connecting environmental and personal factors in serendipitous encounters. Journal of Documentation, 73(5), 1053-1081. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-07-2016-0097 Preprint here.
Björneborn, L. (2008). Serendipity dimensions and users’ information behaviour in the physical library interface. Information Research, 13(4), paper 370. Retrieved from http://www.informationr.net/ir/13-4/paper370.html
Bogers, T., & Björneborn, L. (2013). Micro-serendipity: Meaningful coincidences in everyday life shared on Twitter. iConference 2013 Proceedings (pp. 196–208). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2142/36052
Bourcier, D. & van Andel, P. (2017). C’est quoi la serendipité? Le Courrier du Livre.
Bright, J. E. H., Pryor, R. G. L., Chan, E. & Rijanto, J. (2009). Chance events in career development: Influence, control and multiplicity. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 75(1), 14–25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2009.02.007
Bright, J. E. H., Pryor, R. G. L., & Harpham, L. (2005). The role of chance events in career decision making. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 66(3), 561-576.
Buchanan, S. (2018). Representation and student research topics: The Archives of Classical Scholarship (ArCla). Paper presented at the 149th Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, Boston, MA. Retrieved from https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/149/abstract/representation-and-student-research-topics-archives-classical
Buchem, I. (2011). Serendipitous learning: Recognizing and fostering the potential of microblogging. Formare Open Journal, no. 74, February/March 2011. Retrieved from http://formare.erickson.it/wordpress/it/2011/serendipitous-learning-recognizing-and-fostering-the-potential-of-microblogging/
Burkell, J., Quan-Haase, A. & Rubin, V.L. (2012). Promoting serendipity online: Recommendations for tool design. pp. 525-526. Proceedings of the 2012 iConference, Toronto. New York : ACM. Retrieved from http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2132274
Burrows, T. and Verhoeven, D. (forthcoming). Serendipity in the digital humanities (under contract with Palgrave)
Busch, C. (2020) The Serendipity Mindset. The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck. Riverhead Books.
Busch, C. (2018). How to make the most of serendipity at work. Geneva: World Economic Forum. Retrieved from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/07/how-to-make-serendipity-happen-at-work/
Busch, C., & Barkema, H.G. (2020) Planned Luck: How Incubators can facilitate serendipity for nascent entrepreneurs through fostering network embeddedness. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 00(0): 1-26.
Busch, C., & Barkema, H.G. (2018). Ecosystem emergence and transformational network leadership: Curating serendipity in high-uncertainty environments. Academy of Management Proceedings. Retrieved from https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/AMBPP.2018.16943abstract
Campanario, J. (1996). Using Citation Classics to study the incidence of serendipity in scientific discovery. Scientometrics, 37(1), 3-24.
Campos, J. A., & Figueiredo, A. D. (2002). Programming for serendipity. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 2002 AAAI Fall Symposium. Retrieved from http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1385402
Campos, J. A., & Figueiredo, A. D. (2008). Method and system for supporting symbolic serendipity. U.S. Patent No. 7,319,998. Retrieved from http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=PN/7319998
Cannon, W.B. (1940) The role of chance in discovery. The Scientific Monthly 50(3): 204–9.
Carr, P.L. (2015). Serendipity in the stacks: Libraries, information architecture, and the problems of accidental discovery. College & Research Libraries, 76(6): 831-842. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.76.6.831
Catellin, S. (2014). Sérendipité. Du conte au concept [Serendipity. From the fairy tale to the concept], Paris, Editions du Seuil, “Science ouverte”, 270 p.
Catellin, S. (2012). Sérendipité et réflexivité [Serendipity and reflexivity]. Alliage (Culture, Science, Technique), 70, 74-84.
Catellin, S. & Loty, L. (2013). Sérendipité et indisciplinarité [Serendipity and indisciplinarity]. Hermès, n°67, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 32-40.
Chan, S. (2007). Tagging and searching: Serendipity and museum collection databases. Proceedings of Museums and the Web 2007. San Francisco, CA: Archives and Museum Informatics. Retrieved from http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/papers/chan/chan.html
Coleman, S.L. & Beitman, B.D. (2009). Characterizing High-frequency Coincidence Detectors. Psychiatric Annals. 39(5)
Coleman, S.L., Beitman, B.D. & Celebi E. (2009). Weird Coincidences Commonly Occur. Psychiatric Annals. 39(5)
Copeland, S. (2018). “Fleming Leapt on the Unusual like a Weasel on a Vole”: Challenging the Paradigms of Discovery in Science. Perspectives on Science. 26(6)
Copeland, S. (2017). On Serendipity in Science: Discovery at the Intersection of Chance and Wisdom. Synthese, online first https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-017-1544-3
Copeland, S. (2015). The Case of the Triggered Memory: Serendipitous Discovery and the Ethics of Clinical Research. PhD Thesis: Dalhousie University, Department of Philosophy. Retrieved from https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/handle/10222/63140
Corneli, J., Jordanous, A., Guckelsberger, C., Pease, A. & Colton, S. (v1 2014; v8 revised 2020). Modelling serendipity in a computational context. https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.0440v8
Cross, W.E., and Reinhardt, J.S. (2017). Whiteness and Serendipity. The Counselling Psychologist 45(5): 697-705. DOI: 10.1177/0011000017719551
Cunha, M. P. e. (2005). Serendipity: Why some organizations are luckier than others. FEUNL Working Paper No. 472. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.882782
Cunha, M. P. e., Clegg, S. R., & Mendonça, S. (2010). On Serendipity and Organizing. European Management Journal 28: 319–30. doi:10.1016/j.emj.2010.07.001.
Dantonio, L., Makri, S. & Blandford, A. (2012). Coming across academic social media content serendipitously. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 49(1), pp. 1-10.
Danzico, L. (2010). The design of serendipity is not by chance. Interactions, 17(5): 16-18. Retrieved from http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/september-october-2010/the-design-of-serendipity-is-not-by-chance1
Darbellay, F., Moody, Z., Sedooka, A., & Steffen, G. (2014). Interdisciplinary Research Boosted by Serendipity. Creativity Research Journal, 26(1): 1–10. doi:10.1080/10400419.2014.873653.
de Bruijn, O. & Spence, R. (2008). A new framework for theory-based interaction design applied to serendipitous information retrieval. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 15(1): article no. 5. Retrieved from http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1352782.1352787
de Rond, M. (2014). The structure of serendipity. Culture and Organization [special issue on serendipity], 20(5): 342-358. https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2014.967451
de Rond, M., & Morley, I. (eds.) (2010). Serendipity: Fortune and the prepared mind. Cambridge University Press.
Deuschel, T., Heuss, T., Humm, B. & Frölich, T. (2014). Finding without searching – A serendipity-based approach for digital cultural heritage. Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Intelligence (DI 2014), Nantes, France.
Dew, N. (2009). Serendipity in entrepreneurship. Organization Studies, 30(7): 735-753. Retrieved from http://www.effectuation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Serendipity-1.pdf
Díaz de Chumaceiro, C.L.D. (1997). Serendipity citations in the biomedical sciences. Creativity Research Journal, 10(1):91-93.
Díaz de Chumaceiro, C.L.D. (1999). Sortes Walpolianae: Discoveries “Almost” Like Serendipity. Creativity Research Journal, 12(4), 339-341. doi 10.1207/s15326934crj1204_12
Duff, W.M. & Johnson, C.A. (2002). Accidentally found on purpose: Information-seeking behavior of historians in archives. Library Quarterly, 72(4): 472-496.
Eco, U. (1998). Serendipities: Language & lunacy. New York: Columbia University Press.
Erdelez, S. (1996). Information encountering on the Internet. In M. Williams (Ed.), Proceedings of the 17th National Online Meeting (pp. 101-107). Medford, NJ: Information Today.
Erdelez, S. (1997). Information Encountering: A conceptual framework for accidental information discovery. In P. Vakkari, R. Savolainen, & B. Dervin (Eds.), Information Seeking in Context. Proceedings of an International Conference on Research in Information Needs, Seeking and Use in Different Contexts (pp. 412-421). London: Taylor Graham.
Erdelez, S. (1999). Information encountering: It’s more than just bumping into information. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, 25(3):25-29.
Erdelez, S. (2000). Towards understanding information encountering on the Web. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, 47, 363-371.
Erdelez, S. (2004). Investigation of an opportunistic acquisition of information in the controlled research environment. Information Processing & Management 40, 1013-1025.
Erdelez, S. (2005). Information encountering. In K. E. Fisher, S. Erdelez & L. McKechnie (Eds.), Theories of information behavior (pp. 179-185). Medford, NJ: Information Today.
Erdelez S., & Makri, S. (2020). Information encountering re-encountered: A conceptual re-examination of serendipity in the context of information acquisition. Journal of Documentation, 73 (6).
Erdelez, S., & Rioux, K. (2000). Sharing information encountered for others on the Web. The New Review of Information Behavior Research, 1, 219-233.
Erdelez, S., Basic, J. & Levitov, D.D. (2011). Potential for Inclusion of Information Encountering within Information Literacy Models. Information Research. 16(3): 489.
Fine, G. A., & Deegan, J. G. (1996). Three principles of Serendip: Insight, chance, and discovery in qualitative research. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 9(4), 434-447.
Foster, A. & Ellis, D. (2014). Serendipity and its study. Journal of Documentation, 70(6): 1015-1038. doi: 10.1108/JD-03-2014-0053
Foster, A., & Ford, N. (2003). Serendipity and information seeking: An empirical study. Journal of Documentation, 59(3), 321-340.
Frydenberg, S., Eikenes, J.O. & Nordby, K. (2019) Serendipity in the Field. Facilitating serendipity in design-driven field studies on ship bridges. The Design Journal, 22:sup1, 1899-1912, DOI: 10.1080/14606925.2019.1594948
Gabriel, Y., Muhr, S.L. & Linstead, S. (2014). Luck of the draw? Serendipity, accident, chance and misfortune in organization and design. Culture and Organization [special issue on serendipity], 20(5): 334-341. doi: 10.1080/14759551.2014.967452
Garfield, E. (2004). Systematic serendipity: Finding the undiscovered answers to science questions. Presentation at the Medical Ignorance Collaboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson. Retrieved from http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/az072004.pdf
Garud, R., Gehman, J., and Giuliani, A.P. (2018). Serendipity arrangements for exapting science-based innovations. Academy of Management Perspectives, 32(1): 125-140. https://doi.org/10.5465/amp.2016.0138
Garud, R., Gehman, J. Giuliani, A. 2016. Technological Exaptation: A Narrative Approach. Industrial and Corporate Change, 25(1), 149-166.
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Ge, M., Battenfeld, C.D. & Jannach, D. (2010). Beyond accuracy: Evaluating recommender systems by coverage and serendipity. pp. 257-260. Proceedings of the fourth ACM conference on Recommender systems, 2010. Retrieved from https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1864708.1864761
Gest, H. (1997). Serendipity in scientific discovery: A closer look. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 41(1), 21–28.
Gillies, D. (2015). Serendipity and Chance in Scientific Discovery: Policy Implications for Global Society. In D. Archibugi & A. Filipetti (eds.), The Handbook of Global Science, Technology, and Innovation, pp. 525-539. Wiley Blackwell.
Grinnell, F. Abduction in the Everyday Practice of Science: The Logic of Unintended Experiments. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. 55, No. 3 (Summer 2019), pp. 215-227.
Hagel, J., Brown, J.S., & Davison, L. (2010) The Power of Pull: How Small Moves Smartly Made Can Set Big Things in Motion. New York: Basic Books.
Hagel, J., Brown, J.S., & Davison, L. (2010). Shaping serendipity: Volume 2. Deloitte. Retrieved from https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/us/Documents/technology-media-telecommunications/us-tmt-ce-ShapingSerendipityVol2-09192014.pdf
Hehl, W. (2021). Der Zufall in Physik, Informatik und Philosophie: Zufall als Fundament der Welt, Springer.
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Hopkins, M. (2018). A Study of Physicians’ Serendipitous Knowledge Discovery: An Evaluation of Spark and the IF-SKD Model in a Clinical Setting. Dissertation: University of North Texas. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1157586/
Hopkins, M. & Zavalina, O.L. (2019). Evaluating physicians’ serendipitous knowledge discovery in online discovery systems: A new approach. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 71(6): 755-772.
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Iaquinta, L., Marco de Gemmis, M., Lops, P., Semeraro, G. & Molino, P. (2011). Motivating serendipitous encounters in museum recommendations. pp 159-167. In: V. Pallotta et al. (eds.). Advances in Distributed Agent-Based Retrieval Tools. Springer. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21384-7_11
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Kakko, I. & Inkinen, S. (2009). Homo creativus: creativity and serendipity management in third generation science and technology parks. Sci Public Policy, 36(7): 537-548.
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Kennedy, P. (2016). Inventology: How we dream up things that change the world. Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Khalili, A., van Andel, P., van den Besselaar, P. & de Graaf, K.A. (2017). Fostering serendipitous knowledge discovery using an adaptive multigraph-based faceted browser. K-CAP 2017 Proceeding of the Knowledge Capture Conference, Article No.15. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3148037
Kim, H.M., Ghiasi, B., Spear, M., Laskowski, M. & Li, J. (2017). Online serendipity: The case for curated recommender systems. Business Horizons, 60(5): 613-620. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2017.05.005
LeClerc, A. (2010). Seeking serendipity: The inspiration hunt of a creative professional. Faculty of Information Quarterly, 2(3), 1-8.
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Luczak-Rösch, M., Tinati, R., Simperl, E., Kleek, M. V., Shadbolt, N., and Simpson, R. Why won’t aliens talk to us? content and community dynamics in online citizen science. In Eighth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (2014). Available at: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/363523/1/document.pdf
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Maddox, A. (September 14, 2015). Serendipity: Social Mobility Across Social Networks and Networked Digital Technologies. Avail. at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2756287
Magnani, L., Arfini, S., & Bertolotti, T. (2016). An argument for ignorance-based chance discovery. International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms, 8(3), 327-342.
Makri, S., & Blandford, A. (2012). Coming across information serendipitously: Part 1 (A process model). Journal of Documentation, 68(5), 684-705.
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Maloney, A. & Conrad, L.Y. (2016). Expecting the unexpected: Serendipity, discovery, and the scholarly research process. A SAGE White Paper. Thousand Oaks, CA.: SAGE Publishing.
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Martin, K., Greenspan, B. & Quan-Haase, A. (2017). STAK – Serendipitous tool for augmenting knowledge: A conceptual tool for bridging digital and physical resources. Digital Studies, 7(1). URL: https://www.digitalstudies.org/articles/10.16995/dscn.265/
Martin, K., & Quan-Haase, A. (2017). “A Process of Controlled Serendipity”: An Exploratory Study of Historians’ and Digital Historians’ Experiences of Serendipity in Digital Environments. In 80th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology (pp. 289–297). Washington, D.C.: ACM Press. Retrieved from https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1243&context=fimspub
Martin, K., & Quan-Haase, A. (2016). The role of agency in historians’ experiences of serendipity in physical and digital information environments. Journal of Documentation, 72(6), 1008–1026. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JD-11-2015-0144
Martin, K., & Quan-Haase, A. (2013). Are e-books substituting print books? Tradition, serendipity, and opportunity in the adoption and use of e-books for historical research and teaching Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 64(5), 1016-1028.
Maxwell, D., Woods, M., Makri, S., Bental, D., Kefalidou, G., & Sharples, S. (2012). Designing a semantic sketchbook to create opportunities for serendipity. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual BCS Interaction Specialist Group Conference on People and Computers, 357–362. Retrieved from http://ewic.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/47823
McBirnie, A. (2008). Seeking serendipity: The paradox of control. ASLIB Proceedings, 60(6), 600-618.
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