Author
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L. Waltman

Leiden University

Interdisciplinary

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Description

There is an extensive scientometric literature on indicators of interdisciplinarity. However, the level of agreement among the various indicators introduced in the literature turns out to be low (Wang and Schneider 2020). This appears to be the result of both different understandings of the concept of interdisciplinarity and different approaches to operationalize the concept. Given the lack of agreement on how to understand and operationalize interdisciplinarity, we advise against the use of scientometric indicators of interdisciplinarity, and we consequently do not describe any such indicators. For further discussion, including alternative approaches to ‘measure’ interdisciplinarity, we refer to (Ràfols 2020).

References

Ràfols, Ismael. 2020. “‘Measuring’interdisciplinarity: From Indicators to Indicating.” Leiden Madrics. URL Https://Www. Leidenmadtrics. Nl/Articles/on-Measuring-Interdisciplinarity-from-Indicators-Toindicating. https://i2insights.org/2021/02/09/measuring-interdisciplinarity/.
Wang, Qi, and Jesper Wiborg Schneider. 2020. “Consistency and Validity of Interdisciplinarity Measures.” Quantitative Science Studies 1 (1): 239263. https://direct.mit.edu/qss/article-abstract/1/1/239/15574.

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Citation

BibTeX citation:
@online{apartis2023,
  author = {Apartis, S. and Catalano, G. and Consiglio, G. and Costas,
    R. and Delugas, E. and Dulong de Rosnay, M. and Grypari, I. and
    Karasz, I. and Klebel, Thomas and Kormann, E. and Manola, N. and
    Papageorgiou, H. and Seminaroti, E. and Stavropoulos, P. and Stoy,
    L. and Traag, V.A. and van Leeuwen, T. and Venturini, T. and
    Vignetti, S. and Waltman, L. and Willemse, T.},
  title = {PathOS - {D2.1} - {D2.2} - {Open} {Science} {Indicator}
    {Handbook}},
  date = {2023},
  url = {https://handbook.pathos-project.eu/indicator_templates/quarto/2_academic_impact/interdisciplinarity.html},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.8305626},
  langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Apartis, S., G. Catalano, G. Consiglio, R. Costas, E. Delugas, M. Dulong de Rosnay, I. Grypari, et al. 2023. “PathOS - D2.1 - D2.2 - Open Science Indicator Handbook.” Zenodo. 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8305626.