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arXiv:1805.04647physics.soc-ph

Measuring Scientific Broadness

Tom Price, Sabine Hossenfelder

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Abstract

Who has not read letters of recommendations that comment on a student's `broadness' and wondered what to make of it? We here propose a way to quantify scientific broadness by a semantic analysis of researchers' publications. We apply our methods to papers on the open-access server arXiv.org and report our findings.

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18 pages, 2 figures, 6 tables
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physics.soc-phPhysics and Society cs.DLDigital Libraries

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