Measuring interdisciplinarity of research grant applications An indicator developed to model this selection criterion in the ERC's peer-review process

Ivana Roche (1) , Dominique Besagni (1) , Claire François (1) , Marianne Hörlesberger (2) , Edgar L. Schiebel (2) , Dirk Holste (2)

1 INIST - Institut de l'information scientifique et technique
2 AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology [Vienna]

Scientific experts having to evaluate the interest of research projects submitted for grant to the European Research Council (ERC) must lean on the four "frontier research" criteria among which: "... it pursues questions irrespective of established disciplinary boundaries, involves multi-, inter- or trans-disciplinary research that brings together researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds, with different theoretical and conceptual approaches, techniques, methodologies and instrumentation, perhaps even different goals and motivations", according to the EC's High Level Expert Group report (2005) assertions and that we defined in our DBF project (Hörlesberger et al., 2013) as interdisciplinarity.

Mots clés: Infométrie; Indicateur; Interdisciplinarité; Modélisation; Critère; Sélection

Domaines: Sciences de l'information et de la communication; Applications [stat.AP]

Ivana Roche, Dominique Besagni, Claire François, Marianne Hörlesberger, Edgar L. Schiebel, et al.. Measuring interdisciplinarity of research grant applications An indicator developed to model this selection criterion in the ERC's peer-review process. 14th ISSI, Jul 2013, Vienne, Austria. ⟨hal-00960072⟩