Mendeley group as a new source of interdisciplinarity study: how do disciplines interact on mendeley?

In this paper, we studied interdisciplinary structures by looking into how online academic groups of different disciplines share members and followers. Results based on Mendeley online groups show clear interdisciplinary structures, indicating Mendeley online groups as a promising data source and a new perspective of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity studies.

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