Measuring researcher interdisciplinarity

By Alan L. Porter, Alex S. Cohen, J. Roessner, Marty Perreault. Scientometrics, 2007

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How interdisciplinary is sustainability research? Analyzing the structure of an emerging scientific field (2011, background): “Subsequent research into interdisciplinary scholarship has focused on exchanges between fields with overlapping applications in medicine and engineering (Porter et al. 2007; Rafols and Meyer 2010).”
Evaluating the use of search engine development tools in IT education (2010, neutral): “Frandsen, Rousseau, and Rowlands (2006) made the previous definitions more precise and pointed out that there are actually a large amount ofRDIs and FDIs by considering both a diachronous and a synchronous approach and by varying the citation windows.”
Diversity and network coherence as indicators of interdisciplinarity: case studies in bionanoscience (2009, methodology): “While the bibliometric studies referred to above touch on particular aspects of diversity, to our knowledge, only the recent paper by Porter et al. (2007) actually integrates the attributes of variety, balance and similarity into one index.”
Prominent but Less Productive (2015, methodology): “Second, the interdisciplinary research score, which is based on the variety, evenness, and distance of referenced SCs, is also positively correlated (r = .18) with the number of SCs that characterize the focal paper itself (recall that a given paper is assigned 1–6 SCs).”