Are top-cited papers more interdisciplinary?

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Highlights：

• We analyze the level of interdisciplinarity, compiled with the Simpson Index, of the top 1% most highly cited papers and of papers with lower citation percentile ranks.

• Results show that the top 1% most cited papers exhibit higher levels of interdisciplinarity than papers in other citation rank classes.

• The relationship is observed in more than 90% of NSF specialties.

摘要

•We analyze the level of interdisciplinarity, compiled with the Simpson Index, of the top 1% most highly cited papers and of papers with lower citation percentile ranks.•Results show that the top 1% most cited papers exhibit higher levels of interdisciplinarity than papers in other citation rank classes.•The relationship is observed in more than 90% of NSF specialties.

论文关键词：Interdisciplinarity,Percentile rank classes,Citation distribution,Top cited papers

论文评审过程：Received 17 April 2015, Accepted 11 September 2015, Available online 3 December 2015, Version of Record 3 December 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2015.09.003