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Interdisciplinary research and technological impact
arXiv - CS - Digital Libraries Pub Date : 2020-06-27 , DOI: arxiv-2006.15383
Qing Ke

Interdisciplinary research has been considered as a solution to today's complex societal challenges. While its relationship with scientific impact has been extensively studied, the technological impact of interdisciplinary research remains unexplored. Here, we examine how interdisciplinarity is associated with technological impact at the paper level. We measure the degree of interdisciplinarity of a paper using three popular indicators, namely variety, balance, and disparity, and track how it gets cited by patented technologies over time. Drawing on a large sample of biomedical papers published in 18 years, we find that papers that cites more fields (variety) and whose distributions over those cited fields are more even (balance) are more likely to receive patent citations, but both effects can be offset if papers draw upon more distant fields (disparity). Those associations are consistent across different citation-window lengths. Additional analysis that focuses on the subset of papers with at least one patent citation reveals that the intensity of their technological impact, as measured as the number of patent citations, increases with balance and disparity. Our work may have policy implications for interdisciplinary research and scientific and technology impact.

中文翻译:

跨学科研究和技术影响

跨学科研究已被视为应对当今复杂社会挑战的解决方案。虽然它与科学影响的关系已被广泛研究,但跨学科研究的技术影响仍未得到探索。在这里,我们研究跨学科性如何与论文层面的技术影响相关联。我们使用三个流行指标(即多样性、平衡性和差异性)来衡量一篇论文的跨学科程度,并跟踪它是如何随着时间的推移被专利技术引用的。借鉴 18 年发表的大量生物医学论文样本,我们发现引用更多领域(种类)且在这些引用领域中分布更均匀(平衡)的论文更有可能获得专利引用,但是如果论文利用更远的领域(差异),这两种影响都可以抵消。这些关联在不同的引用窗口长度上是一致的。关注至少有一项专利引用的论文子集的额外分析表明,它们的技术影响强度(以专利引用次数衡量)随着平衡和差异的增加而增加。我们的工作可能对跨学科研究和科学技术影响产生政策影响。
更新日期:2020-06-30
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