Intermediation of Units These slides expand the article How journal rankings can suppress interdisciplinary research. A comparison between innovation studies and business & management Available at: Ismael Rafols 1, Loet Leydesdorff 2, Alice O’Hare 1, Paul Nightingale 1 and Andy Stirling 1 1 SPRU —Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, 2 Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam,

Edinburgh ISSTI Sussex Manchester MIoIR Imperial ISSTI Warwick Business School London Business School SPRU # pubs with journals included % pubs with journals included90%95%91%92%73%84% Journals of publications Clustering Coefficient Std Error0.06% 0.04% Average similarity Std Error0.06%0.07% 0.04% # refs with journals included % refs with journals included21%29%28%42%56% Journals of references Clustering Coefficient Std Error0.05%0.04%0.05%0.04% Average similarity Std Error0.04%0.05% 0.04% # citations with journals included % citations with journals included47%58%65%57%56%61% Journals of citations Clustering Coefficient Std Error0.06%0.05%0.06%0.04% 0.03% Average similarity Std Error0.05%0.06% 0.04%0.03% Indicators of intermediation Note: Only a sub-set of 391 journals was used in these journal maps, which is reflected in the values for numbers and percentages of “publications with journals included”.

Intermediation as average Clustering Coefficient

Intermediation as average similarity

Heat-map of entire journal sub-set (391 journals), based on the cited similarities between journals (WoS 2009)

Journals of Unit’s Publication Proportion of publications per journal Note: Sum of node areas not consistent between maps

ISSTI Journals of Publications Normalised to total number publications

SPRU Journals of Publications Normalised to total number publications

MIoIR Journals of Publications Normalised to total number publications

Imperial Journals of Publications Normalised to total number publications

WBS Journals of Publications Normalised to total number publications

LBS Journals of Publications Normalised to total number publications

Journals of Unit’s References Proportion of references per journal

ISSTI Journals of References Normalised to total number references

SPRU Journals of References Normalised to total number references

MIoIR Journals of References Normalised to total number references

Imperial Journals of References Normalised to total number references

WBS Journals of References Normalised to total number references

LBS Journals of References Normalised to total number references

Journals of Unit’s citations Proportion of citations per journal

ISSTI Journals of citations Normalised to total number citations

SPRU Journals of citations Normalised to total number citations

MIoIR Journals of citations Normalised to total number citations

Imperial Journals of citations Normalised to total number citations

WBS Journals of citations Normalised to total number citations

LBS Journals of citations Normalised to total number citations