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Since researchers with very high levels of multi\/inter-disciplinarity might be able to target complex problems, we would expect them to receive more credits than their colleagues with a stronger disciplinary orientation. We analysed Web of Science (WoS) indexed publications of all associate and full professors from a random sample of Australian universities in physics, chemistry and biology (1980\u20132014). Australian Fields of Research (FoR) codes assigned to journals were used to calculate the diversification of authors\u2019 publications. The number of citations in the first 3\u2009years, number of 10% most frequently cited papers, and citation impact percentile were used for impact assessment. 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