1. On the relationship between interdisciplinarity and scientific impact
- Author
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Lariviere, Vincent and Yves Gingras
- Subjects
Interdisciplinary research -- Evaluation ,Scholarly publishing -- Analysis ,Citation indexes -- Evaluation ,Computers ,Library and information science ,Mathematics - Abstract
Articles published in Web of Science in 2000, are used to define the degree of interdisciplinarity of a given article as the percentage of its cited references made to journals of other disciplines and analyze the effect of interdisciplinarity on the scientific impact of individual articles. The link between interdisciplinarity and scientific impact which is highly influenced by the citation characteristics of the disciplines involved indicated that articles citing citation-intensive disciplines are more likely to be cited by those disciplines and obtained higher citation scores compared to articles citing non-citation-intensive disciplines.
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- 2010