Is science becoming more interdisciplinary? Measuring and mapping six research fields over time

By Alan L. Porter, Ismael Rafols. Scientometrics, 2009

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Subfields: Information Systems, Molecular Biology, Statistics and Probability

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The science of science: from the perspective of complex systems (2017, methodology): “Porter and Rafols computed the integration index of papers from six research domains according to theWeb of Science Subject Categories [316].”
How journal rankings can suppress interdisciplinary research: A comparison between Innovation Studies and Business & Management (2012, background): “This position goes hand in hand with significant increases in articles claiming to be interdisciplinary (Braun and Schubert, 2003) and with more interdisciplinary citing patterns (Porter and Rafols, 2009).”
Tracking the evolution of waste recycling research using overlay maps of science. (2011, background): “This is often the case for instrumental bodies of knowledge, such as microscopy or statistical techniques, each with their own independent expertise, yet at the same time providing a service contribution to different disciplines (Price, 1984; Shinn and Joerges, 2002).”
Patterns of connections and movements in dual‐map overlays: A new method of publication portfolio analysis (2014, background): “The ﬂexibility of the science overlay maps has been demonstrated in studies of the interdisciplinarity of ﬁelds over time (Porter & Rafols, 2009), comparing departments, universities, and research and development bases of large corporations (Rafols et al., 2010) as well as tracing the diffusion of…”
Over-optimization of academic publishing metrics: observing Goodhart’s Law in action (2018, neutral): “In 2009, Porter and Rafols [51] used bibliometric indicators alongside a new index of interdis-ciplinarity to measure how the degree of interdisciplinarity has changed between 1975 and 2005 for 6 research domains.”
How interdisciplinary is sustainability research? Analyzing the structure of an emerging scientific field (2011, methodology): “Bibliometric data have been used in a growing number of studies of the structures of, and connections between, subfields in the natural and applied sciences (Porter et al. 2008; Porter and Rafols 2009; Rafols and Meyer 2010) and operations management (Nakamura et al.”
Global maps of science based on the new Web-of-Science categories (2012, neutral): “An additional routine enables the user to measure Rao-Stirling diversity as an index of the interdisciplinarity in the samples under study (cf. Carley and Porter 2012; Leydesdorff and Rafols 2011; Porter and Rafols 2009; Rafols et al. 2012; Stirling 2007).”
Prominent but Less Productive (2015, positive): “Using a continuous measure of interdisciplinary research that incorporates cognitive dissimilarity (distance), Porter and Rafols (2009) and Porter et al. (2007) found that biotechnology (mean = .654, on a scale of 0 to 1) and medicine (mean = .664) are more interdisciplinary than electrical…”