Exploring the evolution of interdisciplinary citation network by the colored network motifs: the case of Perovskite Materials

Qian Yu (), Rui Tao and Shan Jiang
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Qian Yu: Wuhan University of Technology
Rui Tao: Wuhan University of Technology
Shan Jiang: Wuhan University of Technology

Scientometrics, 2023, vol. 128, issue 8, No 10, 4446 pages

Abstract: Abstract The interdisciplinary knowledge integration has become a typical feature in the development of modern science, which has promoted the production of original scientific achievements and major breakthroughs. The interdisciplinary network describes the knowledge transmission between disciplines, and the colored motif is the repeated subgraph in the network, reflecting the basic pattern of interdisciplinary. By assigning different colors to the nodes in the network, this paper introduces the analysis method of colored motifs into interdisciplinary research to explain the formation and evolution mechanism of interdisciplinary network at the meso-scale. We collected a set of datasets from the core database of Web of Science that contains 27,546 articles related to Perovskite Materials published from 2001 to 2021. After constructing interdisciplinary citation network, we further color network nodes according to their different discipline properties, and analyze evolution characteristics of uncolored and colored network motifs. By statistically analyzing the number of published papers and the proportion of interdisciplinary papers, our results show that the interdisciplinary evolution of Perovskite Materials is divided into two stages: the budding period from 2001 to 2014 and the developing period from 2015 to 2021, where the former stage is featured by knowledge integration, and the latter is dominated by knowledge diffusion. After analyzing colored network motifs, we find that increasing disciplinary categories and citations to different disciplinary knowledge will increase disciplinary diversity, but have a significant negative impact on disciplinary cohesion at the same time, where the former can exert greater influence. In addition, with the expansion of interdisciplinary breadth and reduction of disciplinary diffusion, hub nodes are conductive to emerge, thereby enhancing the cohesion of disciplines.

Keywords: Perovskite Materials; Interdisciplinary evolution; Citation network; Colored network motifs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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