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SOE: Fachverband Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

SOE 24: Scientometric maps and dynamical models of scientific collaboration networks (accompanying symposium SYSM)

SOE 24.5: Talk

Thursday, March 10, 2016, 16:00–16:15, H36

Using arxiv data to estimate interdisciplinarity and its impact on academic success — Leonhard Horstmeyer¹ and •Stefan Pfenninger² — ¹Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany — ²ETH Zurich

Interdisciplinarity in research is hard to capture formally and empirically, in particular in the context of preprint publishing. We introduce an entropy-based measure of author interdisciplinarity. We put forward a cleaning algorithm for preprint databases and a clustering algorithm for scientific communities based on mixture models. Equipped with these we study the arxiv.org database with respect to the community dynamics and the relation between interdisciplinarity and estimates of academic success such as the network centrality or the impact factor of the journals in which arxiv submissions were published.