The role of mainstreamness and interdisciplinarity for the relevance of scientific papers

• Main Authors: Thurner, Stefan, Liu, Wenyuan, Klimek, Peter, Cheong, Siew Ann
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Science::Physics; Citation Analysis; Entropy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/147084
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Is it possible to tell how interdisciplinary and out-of-the-box scientific papers are, or which papers are mainstream? Here we use the bibliographic coupling network, derived from all physics papers that were published in the Physical Review journals in the past century, to try to identify them as m...