Interdisciplinary research and the societal visibility of science: The advantages of spanning multiple and distant scientific fields

Science policy discourse often encourages interdisciplinary research as an approach that enhances the potential of science to produce breakthrough discoveries and solutions to real-world, complex problems. While there is a large body of research examining the relationship between interdisciplinarity...

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Autores: D'Este Cukierman, Pablo, Robinson-García, Nicolás
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2023
País:España
Recursos:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
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Palavra-chave:Interdisciplinary research
Societal visibility
Altmetrics
Academic engagement
Science - society interactions
Scientific impact
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spelling Interdisciplinary research and the societal visibility of science: The advantages of spanning multiple and distant scientific fieldsD'Este Cukierman, PabloRobinson-García, NicolásInterdisciplinary researchSocietal visibilityAltmetricsAcademic engagementScience - society interactionsScientific impactScience policy discourse often encourages interdisciplinary research as an approach that enhances the potential of science to produce breakthrough discoveries and solutions to real-world, complex problems. While there is a large body of research examining the relationship between interdisciplinarity and scientific discovery, there is comparatively limited evidence on and understanding of the connection between interdisciplinarity and the generation of scientific findings that address societal problems. Drawing on a large-scale survey, we investigate whether scientists who conduct interdisciplinary research are more likely to generate scientific findings with high societal visibility - that is, research findings that attract the attention of non-academic audiences, as measured by mentions to scientific articles in blogs, news media and policy documents. Our findings provide support for the idea that two facets of interdisciplinarity - variety and disparity - are associated positively with societal visibility. Our results show, also, that the interplay between these two facets of interdisciplinarity has a systematic positive and significant association with societal visibility, suggesting a reinforcing effect of spanning multiple and distant scientific fields. Finally, we find support for the contingent role of scientists' collaboration with non-academic actors, suggesting that the positive association between interdisciplinary research and societal visibility is particularly strong among scientists who collaborate with actors outside academia. We argue that this study provides useful insights for science policy oriented to fostering the scientific and societal relevance of publicly funded research.The authors acknowledge funding from the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (CSO2013-48053-R); Nicolás Robinson-García is currently supported by a Ramón y Cajal grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science (RYC2019-027886-I).Peer reviewedElsevierMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad (España)Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España)Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]2023202320232023info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/337918reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Inglés#PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE##PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE#info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO//CSO2013-48053-Rinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI//RYC2019-027886-Ihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2022.104609Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/3379182026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Interdisciplinary research and the societal visibility of science: The advantages of spanning multiple and distant scientific fields
title Interdisciplinary research and the societal visibility of science: The advantages of spanning multiple and distant scientific fields
spellingShingle Interdisciplinary research and the societal visibility of science: The advantages of spanning multiple and distant scientific fields
D'Este Cukierman, Pablo
Interdisciplinary research
Societal visibility
Altmetrics
Academic engagement
Science - society interactions
Scientific impact
title_short Interdisciplinary research and the societal visibility of science: The advantages of spanning multiple and distant scientific fields
title_full Interdisciplinary research and the societal visibility of science: The advantages of spanning multiple and distant scientific fields
title_fullStr Interdisciplinary research and the societal visibility of science: The advantages of spanning multiple and distant scientific fields
title_full_unstemmed Interdisciplinary research and the societal visibility of science: The advantages of spanning multiple and distant scientific fields
title_sort Interdisciplinary research and the societal visibility of science: The advantages of spanning multiple and distant scientific fields
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv D'Este Cukierman, Pablo
Robinson-García, Nicolás
author D'Este Cukierman, Pablo
author_facet D'Este Cukierman, Pablo
Robinson-García, Nicolás
author_role author
author2 Robinson-García, Nicolás
author2_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)
Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España)
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Interdisciplinary research
Societal visibility
Altmetrics
Academic engagement
Science - society interactions
Scientific impact
topic Interdisciplinary research
Societal visibility
Altmetrics
Academic engagement
Science - society interactions
Scientific impact
description Science policy discourse often encourages interdisciplinary research as an approach that enhances the potential of science to produce breakthrough discoveries and solutions to real-world, complex problems. While there is a large body of research examining the relationship between interdisciplinarity and scientific discovery, there is comparatively limited evidence on and understanding of the connection between interdisciplinarity and the generation of scientific findings that address societal problems. Drawing on a large-scale survey, we investigate whether scientists who conduct interdisciplinary research are more likely to generate scientific findings with high societal visibility - that is, research findings that attract the attention of non-academic audiences, as measured by mentions to scientific articles in blogs, news media and policy documents. Our findings provide support for the idea that two facets of interdisciplinarity - variety and disparity - are associated positively with societal visibility. Our results show, also, that the interplay between these two facets of interdisciplinarity has a systematic positive and significant association with societal visibility, suggesting a reinforcing effect of spanning multiple and distant scientific fields. Finally, we find support for the contingent role of scientists' collaboration with non-academic actors, suggesting that the positive association between interdisciplinary research and societal visibility is particularly strong among scientists who collaborate with actors outside academia. We argue that this study provides useful insights for science policy oriented to fostering the scientific and societal relevance of publicly funded research.
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