Are top-cited papers more interdisciplinary?

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1034-1046

  Chen, Shiji ^a   Arsenault, Clément ^b   Larivière, Vincent ^b  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Citation distribution; Interdisciplinarity; Percentile rank classes; Top cited papers

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOMETRIC; CITATION DISTRIBUTION; CITED PAPERS; HIGHLY-CITED PAPERS; INTERDISCIPLINARITY; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; PERCENTILE RANK CLASSES; SIMPSON INDICES;

EID: 84947802627     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: 18755879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2015.09.003     Document Type: Article

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