Interdisciplinarity: A critical assessment

JA Jacobs, S Frickel - Annual review of Sociology, 2009 - annualreviews.org
This article draws together disparate research and theorizing on interdisciplinarity. We first
describe widespread efforts to promote interdisciplinarity in US universities and critically …

Examining the usage, citation, and diffusion patterns of bibliometric mapping software: A comparative study of three tools

X Pan, E Yan, M Cui, W Hua - Journal of informetrics, 2018 - Elsevier
This study investigates the use, citation and diffusion of three bibliometric mapping software
tools (CiteSpace, HistCite and VOSviewer) in scientific papers. We first conduct a content …

Diversity and network coherence as indicators of interdisciplinarity: case studies in bionanoscience

I Rafols, M Meyer - Scientometrics, 2010 - akjournals.com
The multidimensional character and inherent conflict with categorisation of interdisciplinarity
makes its mapping and evaluation a challenging task. We propose a conceptual framework …

Betweenness centrality as an indicator of the interdisciplinarity of scientific journals

L Leydesdorff - Journal of the American Society for Information …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
In addition to science citation indicators of journals like impact and immediacy, social
network analysis provides a set of centrality measures like degree, betweenness, and …

Science overlay maps: A new tool for research policy and library management

I Rafols, AL Porter, L Leydesdorff - Journal of the American …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We present a novel approach to visually locate bodies of research within the sciences, both
at each moment of time and dynamically. This article describes how this approach fits with …

A global map of science based on the ISI subject categories

L Leydesdorff, I Rafols - Journal of the American Society for …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The decomposition of scientific literature into disciplinary and subdisciplinary structures is
one of the core goals of scientometrics. How can we achieve a good decomposition? The ISI …

Major trends in knowledge management research: a bibliometric study

P Akhavan, NA Ebrahim, MA Fetrati, A Pezeshkan - Scientometrics, 2016 - Springer
This study provides an overview of the knowledge management literature from 1980 through
2014. We employ bibliometric and text mining analyses on a sample of 500 most cited …

How interdisciplinary is sustainability research? Analyzing the structure of an emerging scientific field

ED Schoolman, JS Guest, KF Bush, AR Bell - Sustainability Science, 2012 - Springer
Sustainability research is expected to incorporate concepts, methods, and data from a
diverse array of academic disciplines. We investigate the extent to which sustainability …

Organizational and institutional influences on creativity in scientific research

T Heinze, P Shapira, JD Rogers, JM Senker - Research Policy, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper explores institutional and organizational influences on creativity in scientific
research. Using a method for identifying creative scientific research accomplishments in two …

Interdisciplinarity in science: A tentative typology of disciplines and research areas

F Morillo, M Bordons, I Gómez - Journal of the American …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Interdisciplinarity is considered the best way to face practical research topics since synergy
between traditional disciplines has proved very fruitful. Studies on interdisciplinarity from all …