Does interdisciplinary research lead to higher scientific impact?
View/ Open
Date
2011-09-16Author
Amat, Carlos B.
D'Este, Pablo
Porter, Alan L.
Rafols, Ismael
Yegros, Alfredo
Metadata
Show full item recordAbstract
This paper explores the relationship between interdisciplinarity and scientific impact at the paper level. To do so, we first operationalize interdisciplinarity of a paper as the diversity of disciplines it references. Second, we assess whether (and to what extent) different aspects of diversity affect scientific impact, using number of citations per paper as a proxy.