A measure of knowledge flow between specific fields: Implications of interdisciplinarity for impact and funding.

ABSTRACT: Encouraging knowledge flow between mutually relevant disciplines is a worthy aim of research policy makers. Yet, it is less clear what types of research promote cross-disciplinary knowledge flow and whether such research generates particularly influential knowledge. Empirical questions remain as to how to identify knowledge-flow mediating research and how to provide support for this research. This study contributes to addressing these gaps by proposing a new way to identify knowledge-flow mediating research at the individual research article level, instead of at more aggregated levels. We identify journal articles that link two mutually relevant disciplines in three ways-aggregating, bridging, and diffusing. We then examine the likelihood that these papers receive subsequent citations or h

SUBMITTER: Kwon S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5633153 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature