Are top-cited papers more interdisciplinary?

被引:139
作者
Chen, Shiji [1 ]
Arsenault, Clement [2 ]
Lariviere, Vincent [3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] China Agr Univ Lib, Beijing, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Montreal, Ecole Bibliothecon & Sci Informat, Montreal, PQ H3C 3J7, Canada
[3] Univ Montreal, Ecole Bibliothecon & Sci Informat, Montreal, PQ, Canada
[4] Univ Quebec, OST, CIRST, Montreal, PQ H3C 3P8, Canada
关键词
Interdisciplinarity; Percentile rank classes; Citation distribution; Top cited papers; MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; SCIENCE; IMPACT; COLLABORATION; INNOVATION; INDICATOR; FRAMEWORK; BUSINESS; RANKINGS; LIBRARY;
D O I
10.1016/j.joi.2015.09.003
中图分类号
TP39 [计算机的应用];
学科分类号
080201 [机械制造及其自动化];
摘要
Over the last decade, the relationship between interdisciplinarity and scientific impact has been the focus of many bibliometric papers, with diverging results. This paper aims at contributing to this body of research, by analyzing the level of interdisciplinarity, compiled with the Simpson Index, of the top 1% most highly cited papers and of papers with lower citation percentile ranks. Results shows that the top 1% most cited papers exhibit higher levels of interdisciplinarity than papers in other citation rank classes and that this relationship is observed in more than 90% of NSF specialties. This suggests that interdisciplinary research plays a more important role in generating high impact knowledge. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:1034 / 1046
页数:13
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