Interdisciplinary research networks: Difference between revisions
From Santa Fe Institute Events Wiki
(Created page with '= Summary = Fields of Research are more often than not isolated from one another in terms of their community, jargon, perspective, research programme (in the sense of Lakatos) an…') |
Horstmeyerl (talk | contribs) |
||
| (15 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown) | |||
| Line 15: | Line 15: | ||
Jennifer Hellmann <br> | Jennifer Hellmann <br> | ||
Anna Olson <br> | Anna Olson <br> | ||
Lin Li <br> | Lin Li (linnlii2495 at gmail dot com) <br> | ||
Stefan Pfenninger <br> | Stefan Pfenninger <br> | ||
Catherine Bale <br> | Catherine Bale <br> | ||
| Line 25: | Line 25: | ||
[http://arxiv.org/ '''arXiv'''] | [http://arxiv.org/ '''arXiv'''] | ||
Data from | Data from 1991-2007 <br> | ||
Includes: doi journal_ref primary_category category id link published summary title updated names | Includes: doi, journal_ref, primary_category, category, id, link, published, summary title, updated names <br> | ||
[http://arxiv.org/help/prep Info on metadata]<br> | |||
[http://journals.aps.org/datasets '''APS'''] | [http://journals.aps.org/datasets '''APS'''] | ||
Data from 1893-2010 | Data from 1893-2010 <br> | ||
Includes: | Includes: Authors, Affiliation, DOI, title,[http://www.aip.org/pacs subject classifications] | ||
== Specific research questions == | == Specific research questions == | ||
'''Static network''': | '''Static network''':<br> | ||
Q1. Is there a difference in the likelihood of getting published in disciplinary vs interdisciplinary work? <br> | |||
Q2. | |||
'''Dynamical network:''' | '''Dynamical network:''' | ||
| Line 41: | Line 45: | ||
'''General:''' | '''General:''' | ||
Q1. How can interdisciplinary work be supported? | Q1. How can interdisciplinary work be supported? <br> | ||
Q2. Do interdisciplinary paper take longer to review? | |||
== Analysis == | |||
- Someone of the other groups posted this python-based dynamic systems simulator : http://pycx.sourceforge.net/<br> | |||
- check this out. An ngram with the words interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, intradisciplinary etc https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=intradisciplinary,multidisciplinary,interdisciplinary,transdisciplinary&year_start=1940&year_end=2013&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share& | |||
For static networks:<br> | |||
Choose a 5-year subset | |||
'''Assumptions:'''<br> | |||
'''ArXiv''' data | |||
If a paper is published, there is no bias as to whether people update <br> | |||
Cut off analysis post end-2012 (to allow for long review periods, people not updating records)- assume all previous are published if they are going to be. <br> | |||
Measure of interdisciplinary? affiliations, tagged in different categories | |||
e.g. interdisciplinarity of an author is fraction of papers published in interdisciplinary fields <br> | |||
or represent links - the links represent interdisciplinary <br> | |||
Q. Multidisciplinary vs interdisciplinary?? | |||
== Logistics == | == Logistics == | ||
== Code/models == | == Code/models == | ||
Latest revision as of 18:26, 22 June 2014
Summary
Fields of Research are more often than not isolated from one another in terms of their community, jargon, perspective, research programme (in the sense of Lakatos) and their journals and lots more. This isolation stands in the way of a fruitful merging and interaction of fields. One needs to understand the obstructions.
Objectives
• To understand the factors that lead to interdisciplinary work
• To compare the success of interdisciplinary papers with single discipline papers
• To apply network methods to citation datasets
• To gain insight into how interdisciplinary research might be better supported
Members
Leo Horstmeyer (horstmey@mis.mpg.de )
Jennifer Hellmann
Anna Olson
Lin Li (linnlii2495 at gmail dot com)
Stefan Pfenninger
Catherine Bale
Methods
Datasets
Data from 1991-2007
Includes: doi, journal_ref, primary_category, category, id, link, published, summary title, updated names
Info on metadata
Data from 1893-2010
Includes: Authors, Affiliation, DOI, title,subject classifications
Specific research questions
Static network:
Q1. Is there a difference in the likelihood of getting published in disciplinary vs interdisciplinary work?
Q2.
Dynamical network:
General:
Q1. How can interdisciplinary work be supported?
Q2. Do interdisciplinary paper take longer to review?
Analysis
- Someone of the other groups posted this python-based dynamic systems simulator : http://pycx.sourceforge.net/
- check this out. An ngram with the words interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, intradisciplinary etc https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=intradisciplinary,multidisciplinary,interdisciplinary,transdisciplinary&year_start=1940&year_end=2013&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share&
For static networks:
Choose a 5-year subset
Assumptions:
ArXiv data
If a paper is published, there is no bias as to whether people update
Cut off analysis post end-2012 (to allow for long review periods, people not updating records)- assume all previous are published if they are going to be.
Measure of interdisciplinary? affiliations, tagged in different categories
e.g. interdisciplinarity of an author is fraction of papers published in interdisciplinary fields
or represent links - the links represent interdisciplinary
Q. Multidisciplinary vs interdisciplinary??