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ASIS&T Citation Analysis Research Award goes to Cassidy Sugimoto
Oct. 14, 2009 - The 2009 Thomson Reuters Citation Analysis Research Grant from the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) has been awarded to Cassidy Sugimoto, SILS doctoral student, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for her project, "Measuring interdisciplinarity: an exploration of a novel metric applied to ILS dissertations."
The grant, given by Thomson Reuters, awards $3,000 to support research based on citation analysis, as well as $500 towards travel expenses to the grant recipient. Sugimoto will formally receive the award at the annual ASIS&T meeting on November 6-11, 2009, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Her project will describe the constructs of disciplinarity and interdisicplinarity and explore measurements used in empirical studies of interdisciplinarity, with a particular emphasis on those studies that focus on interdisicplinarity indices. An interdisciplinarity index will be proposed along with a study for validating and applying the index.
“I am grateful to Thomson Reuters and ASIS&T for supporting bibliometric research and I am excited for the opportunity to investigate metrics of interdisciplinarity,” Sugimoto said. “I look forward to presenting the results of this research.”
Sugimoto holds a B.A. in Music and Music Performance from UNC-Chapel Hill and received her MSLS degree from SILS in 2007.