Measuring the interdisciplinarity of Information and Library Science interactions using citation analysis and semantic analysis

Interdisciplinary interaction and integration have become major features of current science and technology development. Hence, ways to measure the strength of the interdisciplinary interactions between two given disciplines has become a crucial issue. In this study, we propose a novel framework for...

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Published inScientometrics Vol. 127; no. 11; pp. 6733 - 6761
Main Authors Huang, Lu, Cai, Yijie, Zhao, Erdong, Zhang, Shengting, Shu, Yue, Fan, Jiao
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing 01.11.2022
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Citation analysis
Computer Science
Embedding
Entropy
Information Storage and Retrieval
Integration
Libraries
Library and information science
Library Science
Semantics
Weighting methods
LDA
Interdisciplinary interactions
Citation analysis
Semantic analysis
Word2Vec
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Summary:Interdisciplinary interaction and integration have become major features of current science and technology development. Hence, ways to measure the strength of the interdisciplinary interactions between two given disciplines has become a crucial issue. In this study, we propose a novel framework for measuring interdisciplinary interaction that is based on both citation analysis and semantic analysis. Within the framework, direct citations combined with bibliographic coupling reflect citation relationship of interdisciplinary knowledge, while an LDA model combined with a word embedding model are used to explore the integration and diffusion of knowledge via semantic similarity. The strength of the interdisciplinary interactions is then assessed with an entropy weighting method. A case study on the interactions between Information & Library Science and six other disciplines demonstrates the efficacy and reliability of the framework.
ISSN:0138-9130
1588-2861
DOI:10.1007/s11192-022-04401-x