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Double-edged sword of interdisciplinary knowledge flow from hard sciences to humanities and social sciences: Evidence from China
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, PLoS ONE, Vol 12, Iss 9, p e0184977 (2017)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science, 2017.
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Abstract
- Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) increasingly absorb knowledge from Hard Sciences, i.e., Science, Technology, Agriculture and Medicine (STAM), as testified by a growing number of citations. However, whether citing more Hard Sciences brings more citations to HSS remains to be investigated. Based on China's HSS articles indexed by the Web of Science during 1998-2014, this paper estimated two-way fixed effects negative binomial models, with journal effects and year effects. Findings include: (1) An inverse U-shaped curve was observed between the percentage of STAM references to the HSS articles and the number of citations they received; (2) STAM contributed increasing knowledge to China's HSS, while Science and Technology knowledge contributed more citations to HSS articles. It is recommended that research policy should be adjusted to encourage HSS researchers to adequately integrate STAM knowledge when conducting interdisciplinary research, as over-cited STAM knowledge may jeopardize the readability of HSS articles.
- Subjects :
- Technology
Biomedical Research
Science Policy
Economics
Science
MEDLINE
lcsh:Medicine
Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Studies
Bibliometrics
Medical Law
050905 science studies
Research and Analysis Methods
Humanities
Citation analysis
Medicine and Health Sciences
Humans
Medical humanities
Sociology
Social science
SWORD
lcsh:Science
Scientific Publishing
Economic History
Multidisciplinary
Hard and soft science
lcsh:R
05 social sciences
Biology and Life Sciences
Agriculture
Research Assessment
Readability
Citation Analysis
lcsh:Q
Science policy
Law and Legal Sciences
0509 other social sciences
050904 information & library sciences
Medical Humanities
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....bd1108d32e6be01a8d3c6c510e93404b