The Influence of Interdisciplinarity on Citation Trajectory in Scientific Literature

  • Shi Yanqing ,
  • Zhao Yifang
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  • 1 College of Information Science&Technology, Nanjing Agriculture University, Nanjing 210095;
    2 Information Management School, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023

Received date: 2019-11-25

  Revised date: 2020-03-27

  Online published: 2020-07-20

Abstract

[Purpose/significance] This paper attempt to investigate differences among citation trajectories in subpopulations of articles in the field of library and information science, and analyze the underlying factors. [Method/process] Group-based trajectory modeling (GBTM) was applied to the citation curves of articles to distinguish among the development trajectories. The interdisciplinarity were measured to investigate the relationship between the interdisciplinary degree and the citation trajectory. [Result/conclusion] There are two citation modes, "persistent" and "temporary", at different cumulative cite levels. As a predictor variable, interdisciplinarity do not affect the levels of aggregated citations but only the persistence of citations.

Cite this article

Shi Yanqing , Zhao Yifang . The Influence of Interdisciplinarity on Citation Trajectory in Scientific Literature[J]. Library and Information Service, 2020 , 64(14) : 74 -84 . DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2020.14.008

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