Disciplinary Diversity of Units
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How journal rankings can suppress interdisciplinary research:A comparison between innovation studies and business & management
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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]
Edinburgh ISSTI
Sussex SPRU
Manchest MIoIR
Imperial College Business School
Warwick Business School
London Business School
# of Publications 129 155 115 244 450 348SC of Publications Variety 28 20 19 15 20 9Balance 0.89 0.83 0.82 0.74 0.74 0.72Disparity 0.832 0.839 0.817 0.788 0.770 0.768 Shannon Entropy 3.558 3.243 2.966 2.970 3.078 2.343Rao-Stirling Diversity 0.810 0.783 0.726 0.720 0.680 0.603# of References 6413 7545 5515 11633 21342 16713SC of References Variety 28 18 17 17 20 15Balance 0.82 0.71 0.70 0.65 0.62 0.57Disparity 0.829 0.842 0.846 0.832 0.780 0.825 Shannon Entropy 4.115 3.575 3.378 3.251 3.153 2.802Rao-Stirling Diversity 0.833 0.791 0.729 0.731 0.689 0.682# of Cites 316 767 419 1229 1246 1593SC of Cites Variety 32 21 22 20 24 15Balance 0.90 0.78 0.78 0.73 0.73 0.65Disparity 0.852 0.844 0.836 0.819 0.801 0.767 Shannon Entropy 4.222 3.723 3.415 3.482 3.503 2.985Rao-Stirling Diversity 0.851 0.810 0.771 0.755 0.736 0.679
Edinburgh ISSTI Sussex SPRU Manchester IoIR Imperial College Business School
Warwick Business School
London Business School
0.5
0.55
0.6
0.65
0.7
0.75
0.8
0.85
0.9
Rao-Stirling Diversity
Disciplines of Publications
Disciplines of References
Disciplines of Cites
Cognitive Sci.
Agri Sci
Biomed Sci
Chemistry
Physics
Engineering
Env Sci & Tech
Matls Sci
Infectious Diseases
Psychology
Social Studies
Clinical Med
Computer Sci.
Business & MGT
GeosciencesEcol Sci
Econ. Polit. & Geography
Health & Social Issues
Global Map of Science, SCI-SSCI 2007Disciplinary-based (ISI Subject Categories)Rafols, Porter and Leydesdorff (2010)
Global map of science
Note: Publications and Cites were assigned to ISI Subject Categories (SC, subdisciplines) using directly the field provided in the records of the Web of Science (WoS). Hence 100% of Publications and Cites can be assigned to SCs.
However, WoS does not provide the SC of references. The assignation of references to SCs was made using the list of journals in the ISI Journal Citation Reports (JCR) in 2009. Since many references are to journals not in the JCR, books and reports, only a subset of the references of each organisation could be assigned.
ISSTI SPRU MIoIR Imperial WBS LBS
Total references 6413 7545 5515 11633 21342 16713
% of references assigned SC 27% 32% 28% 52% 38% 62%
SC / Journal 1.85 2.06 2.18 1.93 2.05 1.65Total counts of SCs of references 3212 4964 3390 11603 16457 17110
Subject Categories of unit's cites
Proportion of cites per discipline
•Dataset excludes any publications from own unit• Still includes duplicates - if one paper is citing various of the unit's publications
than it is counted numerous times
Imperial College Business SchoolSubject Categories of citations
Nodes labelled if >0.5% publications