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Article: The Relationship Between Interdisciplinarity and Journal Impact Factor in the Field of Communication During 1997–2016
Title | The Relationship Between Interdisciplinarity and Journal Impact Factor in the Field of Communication During 1997–2016 |
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Keywords | Citation Analysis Interdisciplinarity Journal Impact Factor Recurrent Neural Network Time Series Analysis |
Issue Date | 2019 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press. The Journal's web site is located at https://academic.oup.com/joc |
Citation | Journal of Communication, 2019, v. 69 n. 3, p. 273-297 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Some scholars argue that interdisciplinarity is a virtue for scholarship and impact, but others contend that interdisciplinarity undermines the development of core knowledge. This study examines 93 communication journals in the Social Science Citation Index, investigating their patterns of citing and being cited by other disciplines between 1997 and 2016. The analysis reveals that the percentages of issued and received out-field citations have remained stable—at around 60% and 51%, respectively—over the 20 years. Interdisciplinary citations are dominated by a few subjects—especially the founding disciplines of communication—and the social sciences receive four times more citations than the natural sciences. There was a significant decline in the dominance of psychological sciences, the long-lasting closest neighbor of communication. Citing highly interdisciplinary disciplines beyond the social sciences increases the journal citation impact more than citing other fields, while citing the founding disciplines hardly improves this indicator and the role of in-field citation is minimal. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/286722 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 6.1 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 2.658 |
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dc.contributor.author | ZHU, Y | - |
dc.contributor.author | Fu, KW | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-04T13:29:26Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-09-04T13:29:26Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Communication, 2019, v. 69 n. 3, p. 273-297 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0021-9916 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/286722 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Some scholars argue that interdisciplinarity is a virtue for scholarship and impact, but others contend that interdisciplinarity undermines the development of core knowledge. This study examines 93 communication journals in the Social Science Citation Index, investigating their patterns of citing and being cited by other disciplines between 1997 and 2016. The analysis reveals that the percentages of issued and received out-field citations have remained stable—at around 60% and 51%, respectively—over the 20 years. Interdisciplinary citations are dominated by a few subjects—especially the founding disciplines of communication—and the social sciences receive four times more citations than the natural sciences. There was a significant decline in the dominance of psychological sciences, the long-lasting closest neighbor of communication. Citing highly interdisciplinary disciplines beyond the social sciences increases the journal citation impact more than citing other fields, while citing the founding disciplines hardly improves this indicator and the role of in-field citation is minimal. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Oxford University Press. The Journal's web site is located at https://academic.oup.com/joc | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Communication | - |
dc.rights | Pre-print: Journal Title] ©: [year] [owner as specified on the article] Published by Oxford University Press [on behalf of xxxxxx]. All rights reserved. Pre-print (Once an article is published, preprint notice should be amended to): This is an electronic version of an article published in [include the complete citation information for the final version of the Article as published in the print edition of the Journal.] Post-print: This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in [insert journal title] following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version [insert complete citation information here] is available online at: xxxxxxx [insert URL that the author will receive upon publication here]. | - |
dc.subject | Citation Analysis | - |
dc.subject | Interdisciplinarity | - |
dc.subject | Journal Impact Factor | - |
dc.subject | Recurrent Neural Network | - |
dc.subject | Time Series Analysis | - |
dc.title | The Relationship Between Interdisciplinarity and Journal Impact Factor in the Field of Communication During 1997–2016 | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Fu, KW: kwfu@hkucc.hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Fu, KW=rp00552 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/joc/jqz012 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85071179946 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 314031 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 69 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 3 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 273 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 297 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000489559600006 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0021-9916 | - |