A measure of similarity between scientific journals and of diversity of a list of publications

2012/01/01 by Stéphane Cordier, Cordier, Stéphane
Decision Sciences · #scientometrics and bibliometrics research

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1210.6510

Abstract

The aim of this note is to propose a definition of the scientific diversity and corollarly, a measure of the "interdisciplinarity" of collaborations. With respect to previous studies, the proposed approach consists of 2 steps : first, the definition of similarity between journals and second, these similarities are used to characterize the homogeneity (or, on the contrary the diversity) of a publication list (that can be for one individual or a team).

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