Patterns of interdisciplinary citations and asymmetry between economics and the neighboring social sciences from 1959 to 2018

Cruz-e-Silva, Victor; Cavalieri, Marco Antônio Ribas

doi:10.1590/0103-6351/6591

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Articles • Nova econ. 32 (01) • Jan-Apr 2022 • https://doi.org/10.1590/0103-6351/6591 copy

Patterns of interdisciplinary citations and asymmetry between economics and the neighboring social sciences from 1959 to 2018

Padrões de citações e assimetria interdisciplinares entre a economia e as demais ciências sociais entre 1959 e 2018

Authorship SCIMAGO INSTITUTIONS RANKINGS

Abstract

This paper offers a quantitative study measuring, through citation analysis, the historical relationship between economics and the other social sciences (that is, anthropology, political science, psychology, and sociology). The exercise suggested here comprehends the period from 1959 to 2018 in order to understand both whether economics has opened more space for the other social sciences and, if so, the subtleties of this process. The paper also develops an original asymmetry measure for interdisciplinarity-the Coefficient of Interdisciplinary Asymmetry.

Keywords:
Interdisciplinarity; Social Sciences; Bibliometrics; Citation Analysis; Coefficient of Interdisciplinary Asymmetry

Decade	Journal	Discipline
Decade	Journal	Economics	Anthropology	Political Science	Psychology	Sociology	Overall Openness
1960s	AER	20.524%	0.000%	0.208%	0.062%	0.104%	0.374%
	AA	0.354%	7.274%	0.257%	0.386%	1.746%	2.742%
	APSR	0.675%	0.216%	7.900%	0.405%	2.404%	3.700%
	PR	0.132%	0.038%	0.038%	15.169%	0.338%	0.545%
	ASR	0.445%	0.586%	0.972%	0.878%	12.554%	2.881%
1970s	AER	27.394%	0.040%	0.261%	0.142%	0.602%	1.045%
	AA	0.043%	6.368%	0.120%	0.591%	0.780%	1.534%
	APSR	0.986%	0.212%	8.170%	0.546%	1.800%	3.544%
	PR	0.177%	0.098%	0.118%	12.341%	0.294%	0.687%
	ASR	1.008%	0.462%	1.277%	1.424%	10.327%	4.171%
1980s	AER	28.244%	0.020%	0.518%	0.222%	0.646%	1.406%
	AA	0.112%	7.305%	0.072%	0.693%	0.956%	1.832%
	APSR	2.358%	0.053%	9.592%	0.620%	0.980%	4.011%
	PR	0.376%	0.125%	0.063%	16.693%	0.141%	0.705%
	ASR	1.723%	0.482%	1.371%	0.992%	9.827%	4.569%
1990s	AER	23.045%	0.044%	0.513%	0.292%	0.364%	1.213%
	AA	0.122%	5.629%	0.096%	0.218%	0.488%	0.925%
	APSR	2.115%	0.035%	9.577%	0.541%	0.779%	3.471%
	PR	0.223%	0.083%	0.067%	9.585%	0.238%	0.611%
	ASR	2.088%	0.539%	1.701%	1.060%	9.614%	5.388%
2000s	AER	23.586%	0.056%	0.573%	0.545%	0.399%	1.573%
	AA	0.132%	4.489%	0.106%	0.143%	0.593%	0.974%
	APSR	3.142%	0.027%	8.380%	0.335%	0.671%	4.176%
	PR	0.175%	0.042%	0.056%	8.106%	0.112%	0.385%
	ASR	1.494%	0.316%	1.257%	0.531%	8.637%	3.598%
2010s	AER	21.904%	0.020%	0.666%	0.398%	0.337%	1.421%
	AA	0.054%	7.320%	0.095%	0.113%	0.613%	0.876%
	APSR	3.669%	0.139%	8.597%	0.614%	0.807%	5.229%
	PR	0.769%	0.096%	0.088%	10.800%	0.112%	1.065%
	ASR	2.468%	0.371%	1.323%	0.946%	8.014%	5.108%

Position	1960s		2010s		Δ%
Position	Discipline	Percentage	Discipline	Percentage	Discipline	Percentage
1	Political Science	3.70	Political Science	5.23	Economics	279.65
2	Sociology	2.88	Sociology	5.11	Psychology	95.33
3	Anthropology	2.74	Economics	1.42	Sociology	77.31
4	Psychology	0.55	Psychology	1.06	Political Science	41.32
5	Economics	0.37	Anthropology	0.88	Anthropology	-68.07

Decade	Average overall openness (%)	Growth rate (Δ%)	Average citations to economics (%)	Growth rate (Δ%)	Economics' openness (%)	Growth rate (Δ%)
1960s	2.05	-	0.40	-	0.37	-
1970s	2.20	7.20	0.55	37.88	1.04	179.14
1980s	2.50	14.05	1.14	106.42	1.41	34.55
1990s	2.32	-7.30	1.14	-0.47	1.21	-13.68
2000s	2.14	-7.77	1.24	8.71	1.57	29.65
2010s	2.74	27.95	1.74	40.77	1.42	-9.67
Growth rate	-	33.74	-	333.52	-	279.65
Average growth rate	-	5.99	-	34.09	-	30.58

Decade	SS Overall ID citations (with economics’)	Economics’ ID citations to the SS	Economics’ ID citations within the SS network (%)	SS Overall ID citations (without economics’)	Overall ID citations to economics from the SS	ID citations to economics within the SS network (%)
1960s	823	18	2.19	805	128	15.90
1970s	1,589	132	8.31	1,457	340	23.34
1980s	1,982	209	10.54	1,773	779	43.94
1990s	2,017	220	10.91	1,797	809	45.02
2000s	1,978	390	19.72	1,588	818	51.51
2010s	2,564	493	19.23	2,071	1,160	56.01

Decade	Economics vs Anthropology (%)		Economics vs Political Science (%)		Economics vs Sociology (%)		Economics vs Psychology (%)
1960s	0.000	0.354	0.208	0.675	0.104	0.445	0.062	0.132
1970s	0.040	0.043	0.261	0.986	0.602	1.008	0.142	0.177
1980s	0.020	0.112	0.518	2.358	0.646	1.723	0.222	0.376
1990s	0.044	0.122	0.513	2.115	0.364	2.088	0.292	0.223
2000s	0.056	0.132	0.573	3.142	0.399	1.494	0.545	0.175
2010s	0.020	0.054	0.666	3.669	0.337	2.468	0.398	0.769
Growth rate	-	-84.84	220.20	443.36	224.36	454.66	537.63	484.10
Average growth rate	-	-31.43	26.21	40.29	26.53	40.87	44.85	42.33

Decade	Anthropology	Political Science	Psychology	Sociology
1960s		-1.11	0.37	-0.59
1970s	-0.30	0.11	0.63	-0.87
1980s	1.44	0.47	1.22	-0.20
1990s	1.29	0.37	0.41	0.26
2000s	1.33	0.73	0.27	0.49
2010s	1.46	0.40	0.95	0.71

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[1] Sobre os autores

Victor Cruz-e-Silva - victor.cruzesilva@ufpr.br

Departamento de Economia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2504-5980

Marco Antônio Ribas Cavalieri - cavaga@bol.com.br

Departamento de Economia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4251-6879