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SOE: Fachverband Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

SOE 24: Scientometric maps and dynamical models of scientific collaboration networks (accompanying symposium SYSM)

SOE 24.2: Talk

Thursday, March 10, 2016, 15:15–15:30, H36

A textual measure of the interdisciplinarity of scientific papers — •Laercio Dias, Martin Gerlach, and Eduardo G. Altmann — Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, D-01187 Dresden, Germany

We are interested in investigating the role and impact of interdisciplinary publications in the evolution of scientific ideas. A crucial point is how to quantify interdisciplinarity. The traditional approach is to use citation networks. The goal of our work is to construct a measure of interdisciplinarity entirely based on the text of articles, taking advantage of the increasing availability of full text of publications. We propose and compare different methods based on Jensen-Shannon-type of divergences, following the ideas recently proposed in Ref. [1].

[1] M. Gerlach, F. Font-Clos, and E. G. Altmann, ``On the similarity of symbol-frequency distributions with heavy tails'', aXiv:1510.00277 (2015)