Abstract: In the era of interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary research is constantly emerging. However, the underlying mechanism of the interaction between disciplines has not yet been fully investigated yet. Nowadays, not only the number of interdisciplinary research published in multidisciplinary journals grows up, but also the disciplinary diversity of authors’ affiliations and the knowledge base of articles published in journals in a specific field increases, which means the phenomenon of interdisciplinary publishing becomes increasingly prevalent. Under this context, this study constructs a classification framework of interdisciplinary publication patterns based on the organizational and cognitive perspectives. Articles published in Scientometrics, a professional journal in the field of quantitative science studies, within years 2015-2019 are selected as samples. They are classified into different patterns of interdisciplinary publishing (PIP) based on authors’ affiliations and references. With the combination of multiple data sources such as OpenAlex and mixed methods including generative AI, research contribution, research topics and multidimensional impact of articles with different PIP are compared. Results show that the PIP with collaboration across domains and high disciplinary consistency in the knowledge base is increasingly prevalent. The level of topic momentous and research impact of articles with this PIP is relatively higher. These articles also produce more contribution in methodological innovation. Participation of authors from distant disciplines and references of literature from distant disciplines promote regularity-type contribution. The former tends to use quantitative methods to explore the phenomena or mechanisms closely related to their career development. The latter tends to integrate knowledge from other disciplines to solve problems concerned by scholars in the target field, or use bibliometric methods to solve problems concerned by scholars in other disciplines. These studies usually produce lower academic impact but higher societal impact. Based on empirical results and case study, we discuss on possible implications for scholars’ research activity, journals’ publication activity, and the cross-disciplinary integration.