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Analysing Institutions Interdisciplinarity by Extensive Use of Rao-Stirling Diversity Index
This paper shows how the Rao-Stirling diversity index may be extensively used for positioning and comparing institutions interdisciplinary practices. Two decompositions of this index make it possible to explore different components of the diversity of the cited references in a corpus of publications...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5256946/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28114382 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0170296 |
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author | Cassi, Lorenzo Champeimont, Raphaël Mescheba, Wilfriedo de Turckheim, Élisabeth |
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description | This paper shows how the Rao-Stirling diversity index may be extensively used for positioning and comparing institutions interdisciplinary practices. Two decompositions of this index make it possible to explore different components of the diversity of the cited references in a corpus of publications. The paper aims at demonstrating how these bibliometric tools can be used for comparing institutions in a research field by highlighting collaboration orientations and institutions strategies. To make the method available and easy to use for indicator users, this paper first recalls a previous result on the decomposition of the Rao-Stirling index into multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity components, then proposes a new decomposition to further explore the profile of research collaborations and finally presents an application to Neuroscience research in French universities. |
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spelling | pubmed-52569462017-02-06 Analysing Institutions Interdisciplinarity by Extensive Use of Rao-Stirling Diversity Index Cassi, Lorenzo Champeimont, Raphaël Mescheba, Wilfriedo de Turckheim, Élisabeth PLoS One Research Article This paper shows how the Rao-Stirling diversity index may be extensively used for positioning and comparing institutions interdisciplinary practices. Two decompositions of this index make it possible to explore different components of the diversity of the cited references in a corpus of publications. The paper aims at demonstrating how these bibliometric tools can be used for comparing institutions in a research field by highlighting collaboration orientations and institutions strategies. To make the method available and easy to use for indicator users, this paper first recalls a previous result on the decomposition of the Rao-Stirling index into multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity components, then proposes a new decomposition to further explore the profile of research collaborations and finally presents an application to Neuroscience research in French universities. Public Library of Science 2017-01-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5256946/ /pubmed/28114382 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0170296 Text en © 2017 Cassi et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Cassi, Lorenzo Champeimont, Raphaël Mescheba, Wilfriedo de Turckheim, Élisabeth Analysing Institutions Interdisciplinarity by Extensive Use of Rao-Stirling Diversity Index |
title | Analysing Institutions Interdisciplinarity by Extensive Use of Rao-Stirling Diversity Index |
title_full | Analysing Institutions Interdisciplinarity by Extensive Use of Rao-Stirling Diversity Index |
title_fullStr | Analysing Institutions Interdisciplinarity by Extensive Use of Rao-Stirling Diversity Index |
title_full_unstemmed | Analysing Institutions Interdisciplinarity by Extensive Use of Rao-Stirling Diversity Index |
title_short | Analysing Institutions Interdisciplinarity by Extensive Use of Rao-Stirling Diversity Index |
title_sort | analysing institutions interdisciplinarity by extensive use of rao-stirling diversity index |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5256946/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28114382 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0170296 |
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