Modeling interdisciplinary interactions among Physics, Mathematics &
  Computer Science
Rima Hazra Mayank Singh Pawan Goyal Bibhas Adhikari Animesh Mukherjee
Interdisciplinarity has over the recent years have gained tremendous
importance and has become one of the key ways of doing cutting edge research.
In this paper we attempt to model the citation flow across three different
fields -- Physics (PHY), Mathematics (MA) and Computer Science (CS). For
instance, is there a specific pattern in which these fields cite one another?
We carry out experiments on a dataset comprising more than 1.2 million articles
taken from these three fields. We quantify the citation interactions among
these three fields through temporal bucket signatures. We present numerical
models based on variants of the recently proposed relay-linking framework to
explain the citation dynamics across the three disciplines. These models make a
modest attempt to unfold the underlying principles of how citation links could
have been formed across the three fields over time.