We introduce a measure of interdisciplinarity as the diversity of academic research production across scientific domains. Our dataset concerns more than 900 permanent researchers employed by a large French university which is ranked first among French universities in terms of impact. As expected...

Since multidisciplinary composition of scientific staff can be regarded as a precondition of interdisciplinary work, one indicator for interdisciplinarity in research is the multidisciplinary background of 1,349 University Louis Pasteur staff in 74 laboratories, covering five disciplinary...