CARAYOL, Nicolas; THI, Thuc Uyen NGUYEN - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA), … - 2004
This article provides a first empirical study of the determinants of the propensity to which academic scholars tend to perform interdisciplinarity research. For that purpose we introduce a measure of interdisciplinarity as the diversity of their research production across scientific domains. Our...