What is a discipline? The conceptualization of research areas and their operationalization in bibliometric research

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What is a discipline?

There are many definitions and

operationalizations of a what a

academic discipline is (Krishna,

2009; Sugimoto & Weingart,

2015). In this paper I argue that

institutional manifestation is the

most distinctive criteria..