Measuring Scientific Broadness

Tom Price; Sabine Hossenfelder

Measuring Scientific Broadness

Physics and Society 2018-08-06 v2 Digital Libraries

Authors: Tom Price , Sabine Hossenfelder

Abstract

Who has not read letters of recommendations that comment on a student's `broadness' and wondered what to make of it? We here propose a way to quantify scientific broadness by a semantic analysis of researchers' publications. We apply our methods to papers on the open-access server arXiv.org and report our findings.

Keywords

scientometrics

Cite

@article{arxiv.1805.04647,
  title  = {Measuring Scientific Broadness},
  author = {Tom Price and Sabine Hossenfelder},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.04647},
  year   = {2018}
}

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18 pages, 2 figures, 6 tables

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