Disciplinary Coherence of Units These slides complement the article How journal rankings can suppress interdisciplinary research: A comparison between.

Disciplinary Coherence of Units

These slides complement the article

How journal rankings can suppress interdisciplinary research:A comparison between innovation studies and business & management

Available at: www.interdisciplinaryscience.net

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/ir28/IDR/Rafols2011-Rankings&IDR.pdf

Ismael Rafols1, Loet Leydesdorff2, Alice O’Hare1, Paul Nightingale1 and Andy Stirling1

1 SPRU —Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, [email protected] 2 Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam, [email protected]

http://www.interdisciplinaryscience.net/

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/ir28/IDR/Rafols2011-Rankings&IDR.pdf

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Coherence Defined as the

Ratio of Mean Observed Distance of Cross-Citations over Mean Expected Distance of Cross-Citations

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Visualisation of Observed and Expected cross-citations between Subject Categories (SCs)

of unit’s publications

Notes:Node size = Sum of citations from each Subject CategoryBlue links = Expected % of cross-citations from SCi to SCj(given the total number of references from SCi and given the average citation flows from SCi to SCj in the Web of Science)

Orange links = Observed % of cross-citations from SCi to SCj

Only links representing more than 0.2% citations are shown

Green Lines = Observed / ExpectedOnly links with Observed/Expected>5, and Observed>0.2% are shown

Edinburgh ISSTI

Expected cross-citationsLine Size= # citationsNode Size = # citations from each SC

Observed cross-citationsLine Size= # citationsNode Size = # citations from each SC

Observed/Expected citationsLine Size= Logscale of Observed/Expected citationsNode Size = # citations from each SC

Sussex SPRU




Manchester MIoIR




Imperial College Business School




Warwick Business School




London Business School




Disciplinary Coherence of Units These slides complement the article How journal rankings can suppress interdisciplinary research: A comparison between.

Documents

sum of citations

sc slide

sussex spru slide

manchester mioir slide

edinburgh issti slide

distance of cross

warwick business school

london business school