On the relationship between interdisciplinarity and impact: Distinct effects on academic and broader impact

Zhang, Lin; Sun, Beibei; Jiang, Lidan; Huang, Ying

doi:10.1093/reseval/rvab007

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“…Larivière & Gingras (2010) found that the level of interdisciplinarity of articles and their citation rates are not systematically positively correlated. However, a study by Zhang et al (2020c) has shown that higher interdisciplinary publications tend to attract more citations and have higher PLOS usage (Zhang et al, 2021c). In summary, previous studies have obtained diverging results regarding the relationship between the impact and the interdisciplinarity of articles, probably because different indicators and citation windows were used and different disciplines were focused on.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Gender differences among first authors in research focused on the Sustainable Development Goal of Gender Equality

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Sivertsen²,

Cao³

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In 2016, the United Nations officially launched the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to address urgent global challenges over the next 15 years. Among the seventeen SDGs, Gender Equality (SDG5) is recognized as important for the achievement of the other sixteen goals because gender inequality exists across education, employment opportunities, healthcare facilities, life expectancy, family life, and political participation, thereby holding back the capacity of half of the world’s population to contribute to solutions to the global challenges. This bibliometric study explores gender balance and differences within SDG5 oriented research during the first five years after the implementation of SDG5 in 2016. Unlike most research oriented at other SDGs, this field of research has low activity and a dominance of female researchers. Within the field, male and female researchers focus on partly different topics. Publications by male researchers tend to be more cited while potential readers show more interest in publications by female researchers. This investigation highlights the importance of increasing gender diversity in SDG5-related studies, which is helpful for the achievement of sustainable development.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Gender differences among first authors in research focused on the Sustainable Development Goal of Gender Equality

Shang¹,

Sivertsen²,

Cao³

et al. 2021

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“…Larivière and Gingras (2010) found that the level of interdisciplinarity of articles and their citation rates are not systematically positively correlated. However, a study by Zhang et al (2021c) has shown that higher interdisciplinary publications tend to attract more cita-tions and have higher PLoS usage (Zhang et al, 2021c). In summary, previous studies have obtained diverging results regarding the relationship between the impact and the interdisciplinarity of articles, probably because different indicators and citation windows were used and different disciplines were focused on.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Gender differences among first authors in research focused on the Sustainable Development Goal of Gender Equality

et al. 2022

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In 2016, the United Nations officially launched the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to address urgent global challenges over the next 15 years. Among the seventeen SDGs, Gender Equality (SDG5) is recognized as important for the achievement of the other 16 goals because gender inequality exists across education, employment opportunities, healthcare facilities, life expectancy, family life, and political participation, thereby holding back the capacity of half of the world's population to contribute to solutions to the global challenges. This bibliometric study explores gender balance and differences among first authors within SDG5 oriented research during the first 5 years after the implementation of SDG5 in 2016. Compared with other SDGs, the field of SDG5 produces relatively less scientific publications, which feature a dominance of female first authors. Within the field, male and female first authors focus on partly different topics. Potential readers show more interest in publications by female first authors. This investigation highlights the importance of increasing gender diversity in SDG5-related studies, which is helpful for the achievement of sustainable development.

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“…Results for the BP tests and GVIF are provided in S7 File . We also compare our results from the log-transformed linear regression model to a negative binomial regression model, which can also be used to model citations as a dependent variable [ 12 , 53 , 56 ]. The results are similar and are discussed in S8 File .…”

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“…Given the “high risk, high gain” [ 14 ] nature of IDR, it is unsurprising that previous research found mixed results on its association with research impact. On the one hand, IDR plays an important role in the emergence of high impact research [ 13 , 15 , 53 ], although at the cost of productivity [ 20 ]. On the other hand, IDR is found to be detrimental for research impact.…”

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Benefits and detriments of interdisciplinarity on early career scientists’ performance. An author-level approach for U.S. physicists and psychologists

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Is the pursuit of interdisciplinary or innovative research beneficial or detrimental for the impact of early career researchers? We focus on young scholars as they represent an understudied population who have yet to secure a place within academia. Which effects promise higher scientific recognition (i.e., citations) is therefore crucial for the high-stakes decisions young researchers face. To capture these effects, we introduce measurements for interdisciplinarity and novelty that can be applied to a researcher’s career. In contrast to previous studies investigating research impact on the paper level, hence, our paper focuses on a career perspective (i.e., the level of authors). To consider different disciplinary cultures, we utilize a comprehensive dataset on U.S. physicists (n = 4003) and psychologists (n = 4097), who graduated between 2008 and 2012, and traced their publication records. Our results indicate that conducting interdisciplinary research as an early career researcher in physics is beneficial, while it is negatively associated with research impact in psychology. In both fields, physics and psychology, early career researchers focusing on novel combinations of existing knowledge are associated with higher future impact. Taking some risks by deviating to a certain degree from mainstream paradigms seems therefore like a rewarding strategy for young scholars.

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On the relationship between interdisciplinarity and impact: Distinct effects on academic and broader impact

Cited by 36 publications

References 48 publications

Gender differences among first authors in research focused on the Sustainable Development Goal of Gender Equality

Gender differences among first authors in research focused on the Sustainable Development Goal of Gender Equality

Gender differences among first authors in research focused on the Sustainable Development Goal of Gender Equality

Benefits and detriments of interdisciplinarity on early career scientists’ performance. An author-level approach for U.S. physicists and psychologists

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