Researchers' networks have been subject to active modeling and analysis. Earlier literature mostly focused on citation or co-authorship networks reconstructed from annotated scientific publication databases, which have several limitations. Recently, general-purpose web search engines have also been utilized to collect information about social networks. Here we reconstructed, using web search en...

Perhaps no more powerful concept seems to represent today's world than the In-ternet's tearing down of the borders of the nation-state. Even beyond the ability to engage in international commerce, images, and texts from within, otherwise-secretive regimes threaten tyranny, erase difference, and strive to unite us in common humanity. It is, then, only fitting that cutting-edge, modern, technolog...

The objective of this article is to further the study of journal interdisciplinarity, or, more generally, knowledge integration at the level of individual articles. Interdisciplinarity is operationalized by the diversity of subject fields assigned to cited items in the article’s reference list. Subject fields and subfields were obtained from the Leuven-Budapest (ECOOM) subject-classification sc...

This article presents a condensed evolution of the interdisciplinarity of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (BMB) by showing its chronological sequence of cited disciplines from 1910 until 2012. Interdisciplinary research has become a general approach for solving complex problems in modern science. The results of our research might help policy makers and funding agencies understand more comprehe...

What is interdisciplinarity? What to make of it? What forms does it take? What drives it? The remarks to follow seek to offer a relatively broad overview of selected key concepts and key issues that together help identify and assess the very complex and non-unitary phenomenon of interdisciplinarity. In the literature on interdiscplinarity, there has been a pressing need for more systematic and ...

Introduction In recent years, there has been a growing recognition of the necessity for interdisciplinary research that crosses disciplinary boundaries to deal with increasingly complex social issues (Rafols & Meyer, 2010). The relationship between the changes in interdisciplinarity of research over the years and researchers’ attributions has rarely been investigated. Understanding the relation...

Disciplinarity” and “interdisciplinarity” have become keywords for knowledge and education in the twenty-first century. This development requires that administrators, curriculum planners, and teachers at all levels of the educational system have a common understanding of both terms and their relationship. The primary case study is the school level in the United States. Yet, comparisons with oth...