The paper reviews the literature on disciplinary credit assignment practices, and presents the results of a longitudinal study of credit assignment practices in the fields of economics, high energy physics, and information science. The practice of alphabetization of authorship is demonstrated to vary significantly between the fields. A slight increase is found to have taken place in economics d...

Interdisciplinary cooperation and collaboration have proven to be desirable yet difficult goals to achieve in academic research. The nuanced differences among the domains, frameworks, assumptions, and methods of the various fields of study that comprise such research often hinder attempts to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue that is both meaningful and productive. We show that demography, ec...

Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, this paper highlights the importance of taking into account the role of non-domestic elements in an innovation system, which is traditionally studied by using the nation-state as the unit of analysis. Learning and knowledge accumulation is often assisted by inward and outward FDI, although this is sometimes overlooked in the study of innovation systems. Mul...

With the fast development of Visualization Technology, massive data need to be converted into intuitive graphics in more and more areas, such as in oil and geological exploration fields. In order to achieve highly efficient visualization of 2D seismic data, the following important methods are employed to improve the speed of rendering. The first method is to process massive data in point coordi...