Does the perceived quality of interdisciplinary research vary between fields?

• Published in: Journal of documentation Vol. 79; no. 6; pp. 1514 - 1531
• Main Authors: Thelwall, Mike, Kousha, Kayvan, Stuart, Emma, Makita, Meiko, Abdoli, Mahshid, Wilson, Paul, Levitt, Jonathan M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bradford Emerald Publishing Limited 24.10.2023; Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Subjects: Bureaucracy; Creativity; Cytology; Evaluators; Evidence; Hierarchies; Intellectual Disciplines; Interdisciplinary aspects; Interdisciplinary studies; Internal Medicine; Molecular Biology; Neurosciences; Organic Chemistry; Organizational structure; Peer review; Physics; Quality Control; Replication (Evaluation); Resistance (Psychology); Science; Social Psychology; Social sciences; Interdisciplinary research; Research quality; Research evaluation; REF2021

PurposeTo assess whether interdisciplinary research evaluation scores vary between fields.Design/methodology/approachThe authors investigate whether published refereed journal articles were scored differently by expert assessors (two per output, agreeing a score and norm referencing) from multiple s...