Title
Interdisciplinary topics of information science: a study based on the terms interdisciplinarity index series
Abstract
Interdisciplinarity is increasingly widespread. Many technological frontiers and hotspots are emerging in the intersecting research areas. The existing measurement indexes of interdisciplinarity are mostly based on the co-occurrence of authors, institutions, or references, and most focus on the tendency to interdisciplinarity. This paper introduces a new measurement index entitled topic terms interdisciplinarity (TI) for interdisciplinarity topic mining. Taking Information Science & Library Science (LIS) as a case study, this paper identifies interdisciplinary topics by calculating TI values together with Bet values, term frequency values, and others, and analyzes the evolution of interdisciplinary sciences based on social network analysis and time series analysis. It was found that the intersections of external disciplines and pivots of internal topics for LIS can be identified by the utilization of TI value and Bet values. The research has shown that the TI value can identify interdisciplinary topic terms well, and it will be an efficient indicator for interdisciplinary analysis by being complementary to other methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/s11192-015-1792-2
Scientometrics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Interdisciplinary,TI value,Topic mining,Co-occurrence network,Information Science & Library Science
Topic mining,Interdisciplinarity,Data mining,Sociology,Social network analysis,Information science
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
106
2
0138-9130
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.42
10
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Haiyun Xu113015.77
Ting Guo2274.74
Zenghui Yue350.42
Lijie Ru450.42
Shu Fang5121.56