𝔖 Bobbio Scriptorium
✦   LIBER   ✦

Structures and strategies of interdisciplinary science

✍ Scribed by Palmer, Carole L.

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
149 KB
Volume
50
Category
Article
ISSN
0002-8231

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This study explores the information processes and work situations of interdisciplinary scientists. The analysis focuses on structural and strategic elements of information exchange between intellectual domains. Interview data reveal that scientists undertake individual and cooperative boundary-crossing research. Four research modes are identified and associated with different approaches to seeking information and knowledge base development. Probing for information, consultation, and learning are among the scientists' central interdisciplinary research practices. In spite of these work strategies, research progress is complicated by the tension between researchers' efforts to maintain a broad perspective and a high level of productivity. Information initiatives can provide "leeway" to help researchers shift their efforts away from their core specialization to the peripheral domains that infuse their interdisciplinary work.

πŸ“œ SIMILAR VOLUMES

Intervention research: Science, skills,
Intervention research: Science, skills, and strategies
✍ P. A. Schulte; L. M. Goldenhar; L. B. Connally πŸ“‚ Article πŸ“… 1996 πŸ› John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English βš– 341 KB πŸ‘ 1 views

Despite a rich history of etiological research, thefield of occupational safety and health does not a have a rigorous history of research on what works and does not work to prevent and control occupational diseases and injuries. National and global transformations of economies and workplaces with en

Types and levels of collaboration in int
Types and levels of collaboration in interdisciplinary research in the sciences
✍ Qin, Jian ;Lancaster, F. W. ;Allen, Bryce πŸ“‚ Article πŸ“… 1997 πŸ› John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English βš– 342 KB πŸ‘ 1 views

It is common today for scientists to conduct research in 20th century, significant research on this phenomenon collaboration with their colleagues from different institudid not begin until the 1950s. Researchers in sociology, tions and disciplines. This study collected a sample of psychology, and th

On social structure and science
On social structure and science
✍ Stephan Fuchs πŸ“‚ Article πŸ“… 1998 πŸ› John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English βš– 369 KB πŸ‘ 1 views

The clinical trial is one of the pinnacles of modern scientific medicine, but, as J. Rosser Matthews persuasively shows in his Quantification and the Quest for Medical Certainty, the union of statistics and medicine followed an extended, often stormy, courtship that lasted well over a century and in