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Choice of data, methodology and indicators can produce seriously inconsistent results despite a common set of disciplines and countries.
A collection of case studies on various aspects of interdisciplinarity in science.
A paper exploring the dynamics of interdisciplinary research in Italy over 10 years of scientific collaboration on research projects.
The answer is what I call “epistemic rent-seeking,” namely, the tendency for disciplines to become increasingly proprietary in their relationship to organized inquiry.
An analysis of Australian Research Council data reveals grant proposals that integrate a broad array of academic fields are less likely to be funded.
Problems of modern society demand collaborative research.
How can interdisciplinary research proposals be more effectively assessed through peer review?
Efforts to promote interdisciplinary research that addresses complex interactions between humans and their environment have become commonplace in recent years, but success is often elusive.
A method that could be used by funding agencies, universities and scientific policy decision makers for hiring and funding purposes, and to complement existing methods to rank universities and countries.
The fashion for making employees collaborate has gone too far.
An analysis of WoS data spanning more than 100 years reveals the rapid growth and increasing multidisciplinarity of physics, as well its internal map of subdisciplines.
A new book argues for less focus on structures and funding for interdisciplinarity, and more on the everyday highs and lows of collaboration.
Gender studies as an interdisciplinary field has a distinctive engagement with interdisciplinarity.
Turn the fraught flirtation between the social and biophysical sciences into fruitful partnerships with five principles.
Interdisciplinarity is often framed as an unquestioned good within and beyond the academy, one to be encouraged by funders and research institutions alike. And yet there is little research on how interdisciplinary projects actually work—and do not work—in practice.
Science hackathons can help academics, particularly those in the early stage of their careers, to build collaborations and write research proposals.
[21]New analysis of interdisciplinary collaboration across the UK research landscape highlights important questions about how we organise, fund and assess research.
Many academics have internalised the pressure to police disciplinary boundaries, and keep their heads down and in their faculties.
When making decisions about funding and jobs the scientific community should recognise that most of the tools used to evaluate scientific excellence are biased in favour of established disciplines and against interdisciplinary research.
Cross-disciplinarity is found particularly in research project proposals of fields of science with clearly overlapping content and mainly in research proposals submitted by fields of science within the humanities and social sciences.
Researchers working at the interface of disciplines can pursue insights without sacrificing career progress.
One of the loudest buzzwords in current science politics is interdisciplinarity. Government extols its virtues. Research councils clamour about its value. Academics parade their credentials.
Launch of the new interdisciplinary Francis Crick Institute in central London.
Higher education needs to break down the barriers that block pathways to cross-subject study.
This paper analyses an approach to fostering the skills required for successful cross-disciplinary collaboration from the perspective of an interdisciplinary group of early-career researchers.
Academics concerned universities are excluding interdisciplinary research from the Research Excellence Framework exercise.
Everyone, it seems, loves the idea of scholars interdisciplinary work. But does academe reward those -- particular young scholars -- who actually do it?
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Marie and Pierre Curie, Watson and Crick, Brin and Page. Collaboration pays, so funding agencies are promoting team research. At the same time, fields that demand multidisciplinary cooperation such as translational medicine, climate science, and systems biology are on the rise.
