A topic model approach to measuring interdisciplinarity at the National Science Foundation

Scientometrics

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 741-754

  Nichols, Leah G ^a  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Interdisciplinarity; Network analysis; Topic model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906080139     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-014-1319-2     Document Type: Article

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