Interdisciplinarity Metric Based on the Co-Citation Network

Quantifying the interdisciplinarity of a research is a relevant problem in the evaluative bibliometrics. The concept of interdisciplinarity is ambiguous and multidimensional. Thus, different measures of interdisciplinarity have been propose in the literature. However, few studies have proposed inter...

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Published in:	Mathematics
Main Authors:	Juan María Hernández, Pablo Dorta-González
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2020-04-01
Subjects:	interdisciplinary research IDR interdisciplinarity metric bibliometric index co-citation network publication’s field
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/8/4/544

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