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An interdisciplinary research work usually involves ideas and approaches from multiple disciplines of knowledge applied to solve a specific problem. In many cases the interdisciplinary areas eventually emerge as full-fledged disciplines. In the last two decades, several approaches have been proposed to measure the Interdisciplinarity of a scientific article, such as propositions based on authorship, references, set of keywords etc. Among all these approaches, reference-set based approach is most widely used. The diversity of knowledge in the reference set has been measured with three parameters, namely\n                    <jats:italic>variety<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>balance<\/jats:italic>\n                    , and\n                    <jats:italic>disparity<\/jats:italic>\n                    . Different studies tried to combine these measures in one way or other to propose an aggregate measure of interdisciplinarity, called\n                    <jats:italic>integrated diversity<\/jats:italic>\n                    . However, there is a lack of understanding on inter-relations between these parameters. This paper tries to look into inter-relatedness between the three parameters by analytical study on an important interdisciplinary research area, Internet of Things (IoT). Research articles in IoT, as obtained from Web of Science for the year 2018 have been analyzed to compute the three measures and understand their inter-relatedness. Results obtained show that\n                    <jats:italic>variety<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>balance<\/jats:italic>\n                    are negatively correlated,\n                    <jats:italic>variety<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>disparity<\/jats:italic>\n                    do not show a stable relatedness and\n                    <jats:italic>balance<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>disparity<\/jats:italic>\n                    are negatively correlated. Further, the\n                    <jats:italic>integrated diversity<\/jats:italic>\n                    measure is negatively correlated with\n                    <jats:italic>variety<\/jats:italic>\n                    and weakly positively correlated with\n                    <jats:italic>balance<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>disparity<\/jats:italic>\n                    . 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