Crossing disciplinary boundaries in forest research: An international challenge

A Passage Through Science: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries HENRYSMALL

A METHODOLOGY IS PRESENTED FOR CREATING pathways through the scientific literature following strong co-citation links. A specific path is described starting in economics and ending in astrophysics traversing 331 documents. Special attention is given to where the path crosses disciplinary boundaries and how analogy can be used to model the thought processes involved in such transitions. Implicat...

Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries: A Epilegomenon for Lockett and McWilliams

Collaborative Research Across Disciplinary and Organizational Boundaries

Scientific and engineering research increasingly involves multidisciplinary collaboration, sometimes across multiple organizations. Technological advances have made such crossboundary projects possible, yet they can carry high coordination costs. This study investigated scientific collaboration across disciplinary and university boundaries to understand the need for coordination in these collab...

Divorce: An International Multi-dimensional Challenge

  Divorce is one the most important public health problems which may affect many people especially parents, children, and their close relatives. To emphasize the importance of divorce worldwide, the world figures of some countries have been compared. According to transition from a traditional ...

Disciplinary Research: Crossing the Social, Clinical and Geospatial Domains

Supporting security-oriented, inter-disciplinary research: crossing the social, clinical and geospatial domains. How many people have had a chronic disease for longer than 5-years in Scotland? How has this impacted upon their choices of employment? Are there any geographical clusters in Scotland where a high-incidence of patients with such long-term illness can be found? How does the life expec...