How do life sciences cite social sciences? Characterizing the volume and trajectory of citations

IF 2.8 2区管理学 Q2 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology Pub Date : 2024-04-05 DOI:10.1002/asi.24891

Hongyu Zhou, Beibei Sun, Raf Guns, Tim C. E. Engels, Ying Huang, Lin Zhang

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Abstract

Social sciences are increasingly recognized as significant for building a sustainable world since the social perspective can assist researchers in other fields in navigating public controversy and designing more responsible interaction mechanisms between the natural and social systems. However, the question arises: to what extent do natural sciences rely on social science research in their studies? Examining life science publications from seven PLoS journals, this paper attempts to characterize the volume and trajectory of citations from life sciences to social sciences. We explore three core questions: To what extent do life sciences cite social sciences? What actors in the life sciences are citing social sciences? Which actors in the social sciences are being cited? Our analysis estimates social sciences influence 15%–19% of life science publications, contributing to 1.1%–1.5% of references in 2018. Social science citers are found across peripheral and central topics of life science disciplines. Cited social science publications exhibit various levels of interdisciplinarity and achieve the greatest citation impact among peers. Citations to social sciences are prevalent in both theoretically and methodologically oriented sections. We show empirically the increasing impact of social sciences on the development of the life sciences.

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生命科学如何引用社会科学？描述引用的数量和轨迹

人们日益认识到，社会科学对于建设一个可持续发展的世界具有重要意义，因为社会视角可以帮助其他领域的研究人员驾驭公众争议，并在自然和社会系统之间设计出更负责任的互动机制。然而，问题来了：自然科学研究在多大程度上依赖于社会科学研究？本文通过研究 PLoS 七种期刊中的生命科学出版物，试图描述从生命科学到社会科学的引文数量和轨迹。我们探讨了三个核心问题：生命科学在多大程度上引用了社会科学？生命科学中的哪些参与者正在引用社会科学？社会科学中的哪些参与者被引用？我们的分析估计，社会科学影响了 15%-19%的生命科学出版物，占 2018 年引用量的 1.1%-1.5%。社会科学的引用者遍布生命科学学科的边缘和中心主题。被引用的社会科学出版物表现出不同程度的跨学科性，并在同行中取得了最大的引用影响力。在理论和方法论导向的章节中，对社会科学的引用都很普遍。我们通过实证研究表明，社会科学对生命科学的发展产生了越来越大的影响。

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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS-

CiteScore

8.30

自引率

8.60%

发文量

115

期刊介绍： The Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) is a leading international forum for peer-reviewed research in information science. For more than half a century, JASIST has provided intellectual leadership by publishing original research that focuses on the production, discovery, recording, storage, representation, retrieval, presentation, manipulation, dissemination, use, and evaluation of information and on the tools and techniques associated with these processes. The Journal welcomes rigorous work of an empirical, experimental, ethnographic, conceptual, historical, socio-technical, policy-analytic, or critical-theoretical nature. JASIST also commissions in-depth review articles (“Advances in Information Science”) and reviews of print and other media.