Taking census of physics

F Battiston, F Musciotto, D Wang, AL Barabási… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Over the past decades, the diversity of areas explored by physicists has exploded,
encompassing new topics from biophysics and chemical physics to network science …

Surprising combinations of research contents and contexts are related to impact and emerge with scientific outsiders from distant disciplines

F Shi, J Evans - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
We investigate the degree to which impact in science and technology is associated with
surprising breakthroughs, and how those breakthroughs arise. Identifying breakthroughs …

New and atypical combinations: An assessment of novelty and interdisciplinarity

M Fontana, M Iori, F Montobbio, R Sinatra - Research Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
Novelty indicators are increasingly important for science policy. This paper challenges the
indicators of novelty as an atypical combination of knowledge (Uzzi et al., 2013) and as the …

Interdisciplinary researchers attain better long-term funding performance

Y Sun, G Livan, A Ma, V Latora - Communications Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Interdisciplinary research is on the rise globally. Yet, several studies have shown that it often
achieves lower impact compared to more specialized work, and is less likely to attract …

The mutation of the “Nobel Prize in Chemistry” into the “Nobel Prize in Chemistry or Life Sciences”: Several decades of transparent and opaque evidence of change …

JI Seeman, G Restrepo - Angewandte Chemie, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past several decades, the Nobel Prize program has slowly but steadily been
modified in both transparent and opaque ways. A transparent change has been the creation …

Delayed citation impact of interdisciplinary research

Y Zhang, Y Wang, H Du, S Havlin - Journal of Informetrics, 2024 - Elsevier
Interdisciplinary research increasingly fuels innovation, and is a key input for future
breakthroughs. Yet the timing of when interdisciplinary research achieves its highest citation …

Factors Influencing Interdisciplinary Research and Industry-Academia Collaborations at Six European Universities: A Qualitative Study

L Ursić, G Baldacchino, Ž Bašić, AB Sainz, I Buljan… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The introduction of interdisciplinarity and industry-academia collaborations (IAC) into higher
education institutions (HEIs) and curricula as tools for promoting sustainable development …

Transdiagnostic and illness-specific functional dysconnectivity across schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder

CC Huang, Q Luo, L Palaniyappan, AC Yang… - Biological Psychiatry …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Mental disorders are typically defined as distinct diagnostic entities, but similar
patterns of clinical and cognitive impairments are frequently found across diagnostic groups …

Does increased interdisciplinary contact among hard and social scientists help or hinder interdisciplinary research?

K Urbanska, S Huet, S Guimond - PLoS One, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Scientists across disciplines must often work together to address pressing global issues
facing our societies. For interdisciplinary projects to flourish, scientists must recognise the …

Exploration of an interdisciplinary scientific landscape

J Raimbault - Scientometrics, 2019 - Springer
Patterns of interdisciplinarity in science can be quantified through complementary
dimensions. This paper studies as a case study the scientific environment of a generalist …