Interdisciplinary and novelty
L. Waltman 
Description
There is an extensive scientometric literature on indicators of interdisciplinarity, novelty, and other related concepts. 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 concepts such as interdisciplinarity and novelty and different approaches to operationalize these concepts (Fontana et al. 2020). Given the lack of agreement on how to understand and operationalize the concepts of interdisciplinarity and novelty, we advise against the use of scientometric indicators of interdisciplinarity and novelty, and we consequently do not describe any such indicators. For further discussion, including alternative approaches to ‘measure’ interdisciplinarity, we refer to (Ràfols 2020).
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@online{apartis2024,
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 = {Open {Science} {Impact} {Indicator} {Handbook}},
date = {2024},
url = {https://handbook.pathos-project.eu/sections/2_academic_impact/interdisciplinarity_novelty.html},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.14538442},
langid = {en}
}