Organizational Unit:
School of Public Policy
School of Public Policy
2011-09-16
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Amat, Carlos B.
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D'Este, Pablo
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Porter, Alan L.
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Rafols, Ismael
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Yegros, Alfredo
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.