Authors: Shiji Chen Clément Arsenault Yves Gingras Vincent Larivière
Publish Date: 2014/11/05
Volume: 102, Issue: 2, Pages: 1307-1323
Abstract
This study explores interdisciplinarity evolution of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology BMB over a onehundredyear period on several fronts namely change in interdisciplinarity identification of core disciplines disciplinary emergence and potential discipline detection in order to assess the evolution of interdisciplinarity over time Science overlay maps and a StreamGraph were used to visualize interdisciplinary evolution Our study confirms that interdisciplinarity evolves mainly from neighbouring fields to distant cognitive areas and provides evidence of an increasing tendency of BMB researchers to cite literature from other disciplines Additionally from our results we can see that the top potential interdisciplinary relations belong to distant disciplines of BMB their share of references is small but is increasing markedly On the whole these results confirm the dynamic nature of interdisciplinary relations and suggest that current scientific problems are increasingly addressed using knowledge from a wide variety of disciplines
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