Indicators of the interdisciplinarity of journals: Diversity, centrality, and citations

نویسندگان

  • Loet Leydesdorff
  • Ismael Rafols
چکیده

A citation-based indicator for interdisciplinarity has been missing hitherto among the set of available journal indicators despite the high policy-relevance of “interdisciplinarity” (Laudel & Origgi, 2006; Wagner et al., 2010). None of the more recent additions to the set of journal indicators has focused specifically on interdisciplinarity (Zitt, 2005). Leydesdorff (2007) experimented with betweenness centrality as an indicator of interdisciplinarity in aggregated journal-journal citation networks.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • J. Informetrics

دوره 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011