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Interactive Overlays of Journals and the Measurement of Interdisciplinarity on the Basis of Aggregated Journal-Journal Citations
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, v 64(12), pp 2573-2586
01 Dec 2013
Abstract
Using the option Analyze Results with the Web of Science, one can directly generate overlays onto global journal maps of science. The maps are based on the 10,000+ journals contained in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) of the Science and Social Sciences Citation Indices (2011). The disciplinary diversity of the retrieval is measured in terms of Rao-Stirling's quadratic entropy (Izsak & Papp, 1995). Since this indicator of interdisciplinarity is normalized between 0 and 1, interdisciplinarity can be compared among document sets and across years, cited or citing. The colors used for the overlays are based on Blondel, Guillaume, Lambiotte, and Lefebvre's (2008) community-finding algorithms operating on the relations among journals included in the JCR. The results can be exported from VOSViewer with different options such as proportional labels, heat maps, or cluster density maps. The maps can also be web-started or animated (e.g., using PowerPoint). The citing dimension of the aggregated journal-journal citation matrix was found to provide a more comprehensive description than the matrix based on the cited archive. The relations between local and global maps and their different functions in studying the sciences in terms of journal literatures are further discussed: Local and global maps are based on different assumptions and can be expected to serve different purposes for the explanation.
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- Title
- Interactive Overlays of Journals and the Measurement of Interdisciplinarity on the Basis of Aggregated Journal-Journal Citations
- Creators
- Loet Leydesdorff - University of AmsterdamIsmael Rafols - Universitat Politècnica de ValènciaChaomei Chen - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, v 64(12), pp 2573-2586
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 14
- Grant note
- ES/I015019/1 / Economic and Social Research Council; UK Research & Innovation (UKRI); Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) ES/I015019/1 / ESRC; UK Research & Innovation (UKRI); Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) RES-360-25-0076 / ESRC project, Mapping the Dynamics of Emergent Technologies
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000330129200012
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84887460767
- Other Identifier
- 991019168854604721
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- Domestic collaboration
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- Web of Science research areas
- Computer Science, Information Systems
- Information Science & Library Science