Interdisciplinarity in science: a tentative typology of disciplines and research areas
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Identifying a better measure of relatedness for mapping science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A global map of science based on the ISI subject categories
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A new approach for detecting scientific specialties from raw cocitation networks
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Toward a consensus map of science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Comparative study on methods of detecting research fronts using different types of citation
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A bibliometric chronicling of library and information science's first hundred years
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Intellectual diversity and the faculty composition of ischools
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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Disciplines vary in the types of communicative genres they use to disseminate knowledge and citing patterns used within these genres. However, citation analyses have predominately relied on the references and citations of one type of communicative genre. It is argued that this is particularly problematic for studies of interdisciplinarity, where analyses bias the disciplines that communicate using the genre under investigation. This may lead to inaccurate or incomplete results in terms of fully understanding the interrelationships between disciplines. This study analyzes a set of 15,870 references from 97 LIS dissertations, in order to demonstrate the difference in discipline and author rankings, based on the genre under investigation. This work encourages future work that takes into account multiple citing and cited works, especially where indicators of interdisciplinarity are used for the allocation of resources or ranking of scholars.