National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [71804135, 71921002, 71874129, 71790612]; world class discipline of the Ministry of Education "Library, Information, and Data Science"
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信息管理学院
摘要：
Knowledge flow between disciplines is typically measured through citations among publications. In this study, we quantify cross-disciplinary knowledge diffusion from the novel perspective of content by introducing knowledge memes, a special type of knowledge unit. Diffusion cascade is proposed to model the diffusion process of knowledge memes. By taking Medical Informatics (MI) as an exemplary interdisciplinary discipline, we measure the knowledge relationships between it and four related disciplines. The diffusion patterns of cross-disciplinary memes are also identified by analyzing the netwo...
