Category: Interdisciplinarity
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Identification and Prediction of Interdisciplinary Research Topics: A Study Based on the Concept Lattice Theory
Formal concept analysis (FCA) and concept lattice theory (CLT) are introduced for constructing a network of IDR topics and for evaluating their effectiveness for knowledge structure exploration. We introduced the theory and applications of FCA and CLT, and then proposed a method for interdisciplinary knowledge discovery based on CLT. As an example of empirical analysis,…
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Interdisciplinarity and collaboration: on the relationship between disciplinary diversity in departmental affiliations and reference lists
This study explores the characteristics of scientific activity patterns through co-author affiliations to obtain new insights into interdisciplinary research. To classify the interdisciplinarity in research, we explored and compared two different approaches: the diversity of disciplines reflected in the listed affiliations of the authors and the diversity of the subject categories reflected in the reference…
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Changes in the Intellectual Structure of Service Innovation and Service System in The Digital Age: An Interdisciplinary Analysis From 1986 To 2015 (full-text)
In the past thirty years, growth in all service sectors and rapid advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) have revealed new challenges for improving service systems through service innovation. Although, these areas of researches are closely related, few studies have investigated the relationship between these areas. This study aims to analyse the changes in…