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Import-export of knowledge between scientific subject categories: The iceberg hypothesis

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  • Vicente P. Guerrero-Bote

    (Universidad de Extremadura)

  • Felipe Zapico-Alonso

    (Universidad de Extremadura)

  • María Eugenia Espinosa-Calvo

    (Universidad de Extremadura)

  • Rocío Gómez-Crisóstomo

    (Universidad de Extremadura)

  • Félix Moya-Anegón

    (Universidad de Granada)

Abstract

The capacity to attract citations from other disciplines — or knowledge export — has always been taken into account in evaluating the quality of scientific papers or journals. Some of the JCR’s (ISI’s Journal Citation Report) Subject Categories have a greater exporting character than others because they are less isolated. This influences the rank/JIF (ISI’s Journal Impact Factor) distribution of the category. While all the categories fit a negative power law fairly well, those with a greater External JIF give distributions with a more sharply defined peak and a longer tail — something like an iceberg. One also observes a major relationship between the rates of export and import of knowledge.

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  • Vicente P. Guerrero-Bote & Felipe Zapico-Alonso & María Eugenia Espinosa-Calvo & Rocío Gómez-Crisóstomo & Félix Moya-Anegón, 2007. "Import-export of knowledge between scientific subject categories: The iceberg hypothesis," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 71(3), pages 423-441, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:scient:v:71:y:2007:i:3:d:10.1007_s11192-007-1682-3
    DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1682-3
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