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Analyzing Interdisciplinarity and Scientists’ Academic Impacts |
Li Dong1, Tong Shouchuan1, Li Jiang2() |
1Department of Information Resource Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China 2School of Information Management, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China |
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Abstract [Objective] This paper explores the relationship between the scientists’ interdisciplinary knowledge and their academic impacts. [Methods] First, we collected 200 candidates from the 2016 National Natural Science Foundation Outstanding Youth Program and their articles indexed by the Web of Science. Then, we retrieved interdisciplinary co-authorship and citation data. Third, we used Brillouin’s index as a measure of interdisciplinarity and h index as a measure of academic influence. Finally, we calculated the correlation coefficients between interdisciplinarity and academic influence. [Results] We found no significant correlation between inter-disciplinary collaboration and academic influence except for the field of biology, and no significant correlation between interdisciplinary citations and academic influence except the areas of medicine or biology. [Limitations] Deciding a scientist’s discipline based on his/her affiliation might be biased. [Conclusions] A scientist’s interdisciplinary collaborations and citations are not necessarily correlated to his/her academic influence.
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Received: 26 April 2018
Published: 16 January 2019
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