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| Interdisciplinarity Measurement Based on Interdisciplinary Collaborations: A Case Study on Highly Cited Researchers of ESI Social Sciences |
| Zhang Lin1, 2, Sun Beibei1, Huang Ying3 |
1. Department of Management and Economics, North China University of Water Resource and Electric Power, Zhengzhou 450017;
2. Centre for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM) and Department of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven 3000;
3. Department of Public Administration, Hunan University, Changsha 410082 |
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Abstract The possibilities of scientific gains and innovation through interdisciplinary research (IDR) are of increasing interest to both academics and policy-makers. The unique complexity of interdisciplinarity determines that scientific collaboration inevitably becomes the mainstream pattern of scientific activity. This study explores a method of identity disciplines from the co-author’s institutions to measure the interdisciplinary degree of different disciplines in scientific collaboration. Considering the publications of “highly cited researchers” for three consecutive years from 2014 to 2016 in the “social sciences, general” field in ESI (Essential Science Indicators) as an example, it is helpful to explore whether the institutional collaboration of different disciplines contributes to interdisciplinary outputs. Results show that interdisciplinary institutional collaboration plays a certain role in promoting the outputs of interdisciplinary research; however, there are differences between the interdisciplinary research outputs of different institution collaborations. The empirical results provide a new perspective on the theory of interdisciplinarity, the decision-making management mechanism, and the scientific policy in favor of interdisciplinarity.
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Received: 14 November 2017
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