Diversity of references as an indicator of the interdisciplinarity of journals: Taking similarity between subject fields into account
Lin Zhang, Ronald Rousseau, Wolfgang Glänzel
2015
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
In the first part, the properties of this measure are discussed, and, on the basis of these properties it is shown that the measure has the potential to serve as an indicator of interdisciplinarity. ...
The objective of this article is to further the study of journal interdisciplinarity, or, more generally, knowledge integration at the level of individual articles. ...
Acknowledgment The first author acknowledges the National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant (71103064), Universities innovation team of philosophy and social sciences support plan in Henan province ...
doi:10.1002/asi.23487
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