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| Research on the Relationship between the Interdisciplinarity and Radicalness of Papers from the Perspective of Knowledge Integration |
| Lyu Dongqing, Ruan Xuanmin, Li Jiang, Cheng Ying |
| School of Information Management, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023 |
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Abstract Scientific research is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary. This study is an attempt to explore the influence of the interdisciplinarity of papers on their radicalness. Thus, 498,162 papers from the neurosciences indexed in the Web of Science between 1975 to 2011 were collected, and the reference diversity index and D index were used to measure the papers’ interdisciplinarity and radicalness, respectively. We employed a logistic regression method and controlled the influence of the attributes of the team and each document on the results. Our principal findings suggest that the interdisciplinarity of papers has a strong and positive effect on their radicalness, and team size and international collaboration are negatively associated with the D index, while an additional increase in the number of domestic institutions of a team statistically favors radical innovation. Papers without funding are also more radical than those funded with a grant.
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Received: 16 November 2020
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