[Sigmetrics] measurement of interdisciplinarity; preprint version

[chudamani kuppahalli]

I have used the Lorenz curve approach in my paper " Lorenz curve approach to classification; a case study of nanotechnology" included in isko conference

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From: "Loet Leydesdorff" <loet at leydesdorff.net>
Sent: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 10:57:00 GMT+0530
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Subject: [Sigmetrics] measurement of interdisciplinarity; preprint version

 



 

Diversity and Interdisciplinarity: 

How Can One Distinguish and Recombine Disparity, Variety, and Balance?

The dilemma which remained unsolved using Rao-Stirling diversity, namely of
how variety and balance can be combined into "dual concept diversity"
(Stirling, 1998, pp. 48f.) can be clarified by using Nijssen et al.'s (1998)
argument that the Gini coefficient is a perfect indicator of balance. However,
the Gini coefficient is not an indicator of variety; this latter term can be
operationalized independently as relative variety. The three components of
diversity--variety, balance, and disparity--can thus be clearly distinguished
and independently operationalized as measures varying between zero and one. The
new diversity indicator ranges with more resolving power in the empirical case.



https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09317** apologies for cross-postings** a software routine is available at http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/diverse 











Loet
Leydesdorff 

Professor emeritus,
University of Amsterdam

Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)

loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ 

Associate Faculty, SPRU, University of Sussex; 

Guest Professor Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou; Visiting Professor, ISTIC, Beijing;

Visiting Fellow, Birkbeck,
University of London; 

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en


  
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