Documentation, Informaiton & Knowledge ›› 2026, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (3): 91-103.doi: 10.13366/j.dik.2026.03.091

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A Study on Measuring the Interdisciplinary Impact of Digital Humanities Research Institutions

CHEN Baitong, WANG Yinuo   

  1. School of Cultural Heritage and Information Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444
  • Online:2026-05-10 Published:2026-07-26
  • Contact: Correspondence should be addressed to CHEN Baitong, Email: baitongchen@shu.edu.cn, ORCID: 0000-0002-1470-7272
  • Supported by:
    This is an outcome of the Youth Project "Research on the Evolutionary Patterns of Academic Innovation based on Distributed Semantic Analysis"(21CTQ037)supported by National Social Science Foundation of China.

Abstract: [Purpose/Significance] This study systematically analyzes the interdisciplinary impact of digital humanities research institutions, providing a basis for promoting knowledge innovation and academic exchange. [Design/Methodology] This study integrates the dimensions of diversity and impact to construct a comprehensive index system consisting of the number of disciplines, Gini coefficient, Brillouin index, institutional publication volume, and average citations per paper.It conducts a comprehensively assessment of the interdisciplinary practices of digital humanities research institutions. [Findings/Conclusion] The results show that the overall disciplinary distribution of digital humanities research is uneven. In terms of diversity, domestic institutions have broader coverage of disciplines, while foreign institutions are more balanced distributed, with similar overall levels of diversity for both domestic and foreign institutions; in terms of impact, domestic institutions show a concentration, while foreign institutions exhibit a dispersion. Institutions with higher comprehensive scores have significant advantages in team building and academic exchange. [Originality/Value] This study proposes a comprehensive measurement framework for the interdisciplinary impact of digital humanities research institutions, and provides references for the improvement of the digital humanities disciplinary system and the development of institutions from the perspectives of institutional differences, characteristics, and development paths.

Keywords: Digital Humanities, Interdisciplinarity, Institutional evaluation, Knowledge exchange