The effect of multidisciplinary collaborations on research diversification

This work verifies whether research diversification by a scientist is in some measure related to their collaboration with multidisciplinary teams. The analysis considers the publications achieved by 5300 Italian academics in the sciences over the period 2004–2008. The findings show that a scientist’...

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Published in:Scientometrics 2018-07, Vol.116 (1), p.423-433
Main Authors: Abramo, Giovanni, D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea, Di Costa, Flavia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bibliometrics
Collaboration
Computer Science
Diversification
Information Storage and Retrieval
Library Science
Multidisciplinary practices
Publication output
Scientists
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Summary:This work verifies whether research diversification by a scientist is in some measure related to their collaboration with multidisciplinary teams. The analysis considers the publications achieved by 5300 Italian academics in the sciences over the period 2004–2008. The findings show that a scientist’s outputs resulting from research diversification are more often than not the result of collaborations with multidisciplinary teams. The effect becomes more pronounced with larger and particularly with more diversified teams. This phenomenon is observed both at the overall level and for the disciplinary macro-areas.
ISSN:0138-9130
1588-2861
DOI:10.1007/s11192-018-2746-2