The Premise of Interdisciplinarity and Its Actual Absence—A Bibliometric Analysis of Publications on Heavy Rainfall
Working together across disciplinary boundaries is considered to be the gold standard for conducting meaningful research tackling complex problems. As this is the nature of many issues concerning water, one would assume interdisciplinarity as being a widespread trait of water research. To review thi...
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| author | Guido Sieber Benjamin Freudenberg Leon Netzel Torsten Claus Schmidt Frederik Brandenstein |
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| description | Working together across disciplinary boundaries is considered to be the gold standard for conducting meaningful research tackling complex problems. As this is the nature of many issues concerning water, one would assume interdisciplinarity as being a widespread trait of water research. To review this assumption, we chose to conduct an analysis of research output considering issues of stormwater management and heavy precipitation, as reflected in the meta-information for more than 300,000 documents supplied by Elsevier’s Scopus literature database. For this purpose, we applied a bibliometric measure based on Jaccard similarity determining the level of interdisciplinary cooperation between different fields of research on the topic above. Contrary to interdisciplinarity being depicted as highly desirable, it turns out to be a relatively marginal phenomenon, only growing slowly over the last 50 years. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0866cdbf99b84e5f80d8c781f11c58702023-11-23T22:14:07ZengMDPI AGWater2073-44412022-09-011419300110.3390/w14193001The Premise of Interdisciplinarity and Its Actual Absence—A Bibliometric Analysis of Publications on Heavy RainfallGuido Sieber0Benjamin Freudenberg1Leon Netzel2Torsten Claus Schmidt3Frederik Brandenstein4Department of Biodiversity, Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45141 Essen, GermanyInstitute for Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Faculty of Engineering, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45141 Essen, GermanyUrban Water and Waste Management, Faculty of Engineering, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45141 Essen, GermanyCentre for Water and Environmental Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45141 Essen, GermanyRhine-Ruhr Institute for Social Research and Policy Advice, Faculty of Social Sciences, 47057 Duisburg, GermanyWorking together across disciplinary boundaries is considered to be the gold standard for conducting meaningful research tackling complex problems. As this is the nature of many issues concerning water, one would assume interdisciplinarity as being a widespread trait of water research. To review this assumption, we chose to conduct an analysis of research output considering issues of stormwater management and heavy precipitation, as reflected in the meta-information for more than 300,000 documents supplied by Elsevier’s Scopus literature database. For this purpose, we applied a bibliometric measure based on Jaccard similarity determining the level of interdisciplinary cooperation between different fields of research on the topic above. Contrary to interdisciplinarity being depicted as highly desirable, it turns out to be a relatively marginal phenomenon, only growing slowly over the last 50 years.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/14/19/3001bibliometricsinterdisciplinaritystormwaterfloodheavy rainfallco-citation |
| spellingShingle | Guido Sieber Benjamin Freudenberg Leon Netzel Torsten Claus Schmidt Frederik Brandenstein The Premise of Interdisciplinarity and Its Actual Absence—A Bibliometric Analysis of Publications on Heavy Rainfall Water bibliometrics interdisciplinarity stormwater flood heavy rainfall co-citation |
| title | The Premise of Interdisciplinarity and Its Actual Absence—A Bibliometric Analysis of Publications on Heavy Rainfall |
| title_full | The Premise of Interdisciplinarity and Its Actual Absence—A Bibliometric Analysis of Publications on Heavy Rainfall |
| title_fullStr | The Premise of Interdisciplinarity and Its Actual Absence—A Bibliometric Analysis of Publications on Heavy Rainfall |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Premise of Interdisciplinarity and Its Actual Absence—A Bibliometric Analysis of Publications on Heavy Rainfall |
| title_short | The Premise of Interdisciplinarity and Its Actual Absence—A Bibliometric Analysis of Publications on Heavy Rainfall |
| title_sort | premise of interdisciplinarity and its actual absence a bibliometric analysis of publications on heavy rainfall |
| topic | bibliometrics interdisciplinarity stormwater flood heavy rainfall co-citation |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/14/19/3001 |
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