Evaluation of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research: a literature review.

S valuation of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary esearch Literature Review

bstract: Interdisciplinarity has become a widespread mantra for research, accompanied by a growing body of publications. Evaluation, however, remains one of the least-understood aspects. This review of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research evaluation catego­ rizes lessons from the emergent international literature on the topic reviewed in 2007. It defines parallels between research p...

Afterword: the emergent literature on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research evaluation

Experimental Methods of Antiquities Dating

Archaeological researches have been started as an interdisciplinary approach in the field of cultural heritage sciences (especially archaeology as an original field) for more than half a century. It has gathered together the researchers of different fields of human sciences, basic sciences, engineering and art according to their interests in archaeological findings and curiosity in solving huma...

Defining Terms for Integrated (Multi-Inter-Trans-Disciplinary) Sustainability Research

Our contemporary social and ecological problems, including climate change, peak oil and food security, necessitate solutions informed by multiple backgrounds that singular disciplines seem unable to provide, and possibly, are even incapable of providing. The increasing occurrence of multi-, interand transdisciplinary (MIT) research projects speak to the recognition of that necessity. But as the...

Maturity model of transdisciplinary knowledge management

In this article amaturitymodel for themanagementof transdisciplinaryknowledge ispresented, although research nowadays is transdisciplinary the different maturity models proposed in the literature are oriented towards interdisciplinary knowledgemanagement, and, at most, they are oriented towardmultidisciplinary knowledge management. The objective is proposing an evolutionary model which accepts ...