Fragmentation
¡ Motivation from academia
l The “popularity contest”
l Getting others to use your intellectual property and
credit you with it
¡ Spread your knowledge wide across
disciplines
l Academic yardstick for tenure (and for hiring)
¡ The more the better – __________________
¡ The higher quality the better – ___________
To think about: what is fragmentation’s relation to the
aforementioned bibliometric laws?