 diffusion score of academic citations diffusion score of academic citations 49 admin mon 10142019 1831 diffusion score of the applicability of new knowledge balance and distribution of citations from various fields the indicator measures the applicability of research findings across subject areas represents the robustness of the findings incorporates features of traditional measures of diversity in assessing the balance and distribution of citations arising from different topic subject categories for example if an article a is cited by physics and chemistry and an article b by math music and forestry the diffusion score would be greater for article b since there is greater heterogeneity among its citing subject categories additional quantitative n a google scholar web of science wos scopus number and disparateness of the fields from citing publications summarized in a diffusion score developed by carley and porter score ranges from  to 1 for more information see carley s porter a 2012 table with percentage disaggregated per categories outcome percentage annually it will be automatically managed by specific services the information is timely calculation requires a complex formula and additional citation searching no innovative medicine initiative 2012 bibliometric analysis of ongoing projects innovative medicines initiative joint undertaking imi see p 11 available at  https wwwimieuropaeu sites default files uploads documents referencedocuments imi 20ju 20bibliometric 20report 201finalpdf  carley s porter a 2012 a forward diversity index scientometrics 90407427 available at  https linkspringercom article 101007 s1119201105281  see a bibliometric analysis of citations of papers in differentes disciplines by innovative medicines initiative joint undertaking imi p 25 this data can be used to compute the indicator available at  https wwwimieuropaeu sites default files uploads documents referencedocuments imi 20ju 20bibliometric 20report 201finalpdf citations 