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Interdisciplinarity: who reaps the benefits?

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  • Thomas Grebel

    (TU Ilmenau)

  • Uwe Cantner

    (University of Jena
    University of Southern Denmark)

  • Julia Schumm

    (Department of Cardiology)

Abstract

Interdisciplinary research has become increasingly popular in medical science. It offers a large potential for new perspectives, new inventions, and for researchers more opportunities to publish. Whether all researchers benefit equally from this opportunity when doing interdisciplinary research is unclear. Using data from a survey on German researchers in medical clinics and institutes, we investigate the determinants of research success measured by publication. We control for organizational differences and researchers’ experience level. Running negative binomial regressions, the results suggest that interdisciplinary research is beneficial for researchers on the executive level at institutes with little patient care. On lower hierarchical levels, interdisciplinary research contributes less to publication performance.

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  • Thomas Grebel & Uwe Cantner & Julia Schumm, 2019. "Interdisciplinarity: who reaps the benefits?," Eurasian Business Review, Springer;Eurasia Business and Economics Society, vol. 9(1), pages 103-114, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:eurasi:v:9:y:2019:i:1:d:10.1007_s40821-018-0102-3
    DOI: 10.1007/s40821-018-0102-3
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    Keywords

    Knowledge creation; Basic research; Interdisciplinarity; Research incentives; Empirical research;
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    JEL classification:

    • I00 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - General - - - General
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • D01 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles

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