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Loet Leydesdorff, interdisciplinarity, and diversity
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Abstract
Diversity, as used in interdisciplinarity studies, has three components: variety, evenness, and dissimilarity. In 2019, Leydesdorff, Wagner, and Bornmann proposed an indicator, denoted as DIV*, that independently operationalized these three components and then combined them. Gini evenness is one factor in this formula. An important point is that Leydesdorff and his colleagues rejected so-called dual concepts, i.e. concepts that mix or are influenced by at least two of the three basic components of diversity. A few years ago Chao and Ricotta took a new look at “evenness” and showed that the Gini evenness measure, as well as the Lorenz curve, are dual concepts as they are influenced by variety. For this reason, I propose to replace the Gini evenness measure in DIV* with an evenness measure, actually an evenness profile, that is not influenced by variety.
Language
English
Source (journal)
El profesional de la información. - Barcelona, 1998, currens
Publication
Barcelona : Swets & Zeitlinger , 2023
ISSN
1386-6710 [print]
1699-2407 [online]
DOI
10.3145/EPI.2023.DIC.02
Volume/pages
32 :7 (2023) , p. 1-5
Article Reference
e320702
ISI
001156551800001
Medium
E-only publicatie
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