P. Van den Besselaar

Interdisciplinary and disciplinary identities: towards a theory of forms of knowledge change

This paper argues that interdisciplinarity is a temporary phase in knowledge development and proposes a mapping approach to analyze disciplinary and interdisciplinary identities.

Measuring researcher independence using bibliometric data: A proposal for a new performance indicator

This paper proposes two new bibliometric indicators to measure researcher independence, showing they can distinguish scholars with similar productivity and impact.