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Multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, and patterns of research collaboration in nanoscience and nanotechnology
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| Venue: | Scientometrics |
| Citations: | 33 - 4 self |
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@ARTICLE{Schummer_multidisciplinarity,interdisciplinarity,,
author = {Joachim Schummer},
title = {Multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, and patterns of research collaboration in nanoscience and nanotechnology},
journal = {Scientometrics},
year = {},
pages = {425--465}
}
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Abstract
This paper first describes the recent development that scientists and engineers of many disciplines, countries, and institutions increasingly engage in nanoscale research at breathtaking speed. By co-author analysis of over 600 papers published in “nano journals ” in 2002 and 2003, I investigate if this apparent concurrence is accompanied by new forms and degrees of multi- and interdisciplinarity as well as of institutional and geographic research collaboration. Based on a new visualization method, patterns of research collaboration are analyzed and compared with those of classical disciplinary research. I argue that current nanoscale research reveals no particular patterns and degrees of interdisciplinarity and that its apparent multidisciplinarity consists of different largely mono-disciplinary fields which are rather unrelated to each other and which hardly share more than the prefix “nano”. 1.
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research collaboration apparent multidisciplinarity apparent concurrence particular pattern recent development nanoscale research mono-disciplinary field prefix nano geographic research collaboration current nanoscale research new visualization method classical disciplinary research many discipline nano journal new form co-author analysis
