Reference Diversity

Per-paper diversity of the cited references (disciplinary / temporal breadth).

Reference Diversity

The Reference Diversity widget.

Overview

Measures how diverse each paper’s reference list is — a proxy for interdisciplinarity and knowledge integration. From the cited references it computes per-paper diversity metrics (variety, balance and disparity, plus the age spread of references) and an aggregate summary for the corpus.

Inputs

  • Data (Table) — data with a references column.

Outputs

  • Per-paper Metrics (Table) — diversity scores per document.

  • Data (Table) — the input with diversity columns appended.

  • Summary (Table) — corpus-level diversity summary.

Controls

  • Max papers — cap the number of papers processed (speed on large corpora).

  • Max refs / paper — cap references parsed per paper.

  • Current year — reference year used to compute reference age.

Actions: Compute Diversity, Cancel.