Mapping interdisciplinarity in demography: a journal network analysis Academic Article

abstract

• Despite increasing interest in studying the intellectual structures of interdisciplinary fields, mapping interdisciplinarity in demography remains an unexplored topic. This paper visualizes such a demographic intellectual structure through a citation analysis of 65 demography-related journals between 2000 and 2003. The journal citation data were collected from Journal Citation Reports. The subject relatedness of the journals was revealed through a cluster analysis, a network diagram, and an analysis of citation percentages between demography journals and all selected journals. Twelve clusters of subject specialties are identified. The network diagram largely matches the result of the cluster analysis. The results reveal closer connections between the demography journals and neighboring social sciences journals than with public health and medical science journals. Correlations between the citation matrices suggest stable demographic citation patterns over time.

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE

altmetric score

• 0.25

author list (cited authors)

• Liu, Z., & Wang, C. Z.

citation count

• 22

complete list of authors

• Liu, Z||Wang, CZ

publication date

• January 2005

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Information Science  Journal

keywords

• Citation Percentage
• Cited Frequency
• Citing Frequency
• Cluster Analysis
• Demography
• Interdisciplinarity
• Network Diagram
• Valued Directed Network

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/0165551505054176

start page

• 308

end page

• 316

volume

• 31

issue

• 4

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165551505054176