Purpose: “Interdisciplinarity” is a hot topic in science- and technology-policy. However, the concept of “Interdisciplinarity” is both abstract and complex, and therefore difficult to measure using a single indicator. A variety of measures for diversity and interdisciplinarity have been...

China's approach to developing a world-class science system includes a vigorous set of programmes to attract back Chinese researchers who have overseas training and work experience. No analysis is available to show the performance of these mobile researchers nor do we know the exact impact of...

Purpose - Expanding the research on traditional history of economic ideology into the research on the history of economics composed of three elements - history of ideology, history of policies and events - is a new idea for researching the history of socialist political economy with Chinese...