Long-distance interdisciplinarity leads to higher scientific impact.
Scholarly collaborations across disparate scientific disciplines are challenging. Collaborators are likely to have their offices in another building, attend different conferences, and publish in other venues; they might speak a different scientific language and value an alien scientific culture. Thi...
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| author | Vincent Larivière Stefanie Haustein Katy Börner |
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| description | Scholarly collaborations across disparate scientific disciplines are challenging. Collaborators are likely to have their offices in another building, attend different conferences, and publish in other venues; they might speak a different scientific language and value an alien scientific culture. This paper presents a detailed analysis of success and failure of interdisciplinary papers--as manifested in the citations they receive. For 9.2 million interdisciplinary research papers published between 2000 and 2012 we show that the majority (69.9%) of co-cited interdisciplinary pairs are "win-win" relationships, i.e., papers that cite them have higher citation impact and there are as few as 3.3% "lose-lose" relationships. Papers citing references from subdisciplines positioned far apart (in the conceptual space of the UCSD map of science) attract the highest relative citation counts. The findings support the assumption that interdisciplinary research is more successful and leads to results greater than the sum of its disciplinary parts. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e6442b4c20274fe08dd5fdeb93d875812022-12-21T19:10:16ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032015-01-01103e012256510.1371/journal.pone.0122565Long-distance interdisciplinarity leads to higher scientific impact.Vincent LarivièreStefanie HausteinKaty BörnerScholarly collaborations across disparate scientific disciplines are challenging. Collaborators are likely to have their offices in another building, attend different conferences, and publish in other venues; they might speak a different scientific language and value an alien scientific culture. This paper presents a detailed analysis of success and failure of interdisciplinary papers--as manifested in the citations they receive. For 9.2 million interdisciplinary research papers published between 2000 and 2012 we show that the majority (69.9%) of co-cited interdisciplinary pairs are "win-win" relationships, i.e., papers that cite them have higher citation impact and there are as few as 3.3% "lose-lose" relationships. Papers citing references from subdisciplines positioned far apart (in the conceptual space of the UCSD map of science) attract the highest relative citation counts. The findings support the assumption that interdisciplinary research is more successful and leads to results greater than the sum of its disciplinary parts.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4379013?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Vincent Larivière Stefanie Haustein Katy Börner Long-distance interdisciplinarity leads to higher scientific impact. PLoS ONE |
| title | Long-distance interdisciplinarity leads to higher scientific impact. |
| title_full | Long-distance interdisciplinarity leads to higher scientific impact. |
| title_fullStr | Long-distance interdisciplinarity leads to higher scientific impact. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Long-distance interdisciplinarity leads to higher scientific impact. |
| title_short | Long-distance interdisciplinarity leads to higher scientific impact. |
| title_sort | long distance interdisciplinarity leads to higher scientific impact |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4379013?pdf=render |
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