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Facilitating social and natural science cross-disciplinarity: Assessing the human and social dynamics program

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  • Jon Garner
  • Alan L. Porter
  • Maura Borrego
  • Elizabeth Tran
  • Rita Teutonico

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Research that integrates the social and natural sciences is vital to address many societal challenges, yet is difficult to arrange, conduct, and disseminate. This article analyses the cross-disciplinary character of the research supported by a unique US National Science Foundation program on Human and Social Dynamics (HSD). It presents evidence that research publications deriving from this support chiefly pertain to the Social and Behavioral Sciences, but extend widely into the Bio and Medical Sciences, Environmental Sciences, and Physical Sciences and Engineering. Integration scores, based on the diversity of references cited, indicate that the HSD-derived publications are notably more interdisciplinary than those of comparable programs. Diffusion scores, together with science overlay maps, show that uptake of the HSD publications extends into the natural, as well as social, sciences. Research networking analyses, together with a new composite mapping approach, point toward successful catalysis of a new research community. The measures and maps of cross-disciplinary research activity that are advanced here may prove useful in other research assessments. Copyright The Author 2013. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com, Oxford University Press.

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  • Jon Garner & Alan L. Porter & Maura Borrego & Elizabeth Tran & Rita Teutonico, 2013. "Facilitating social and natural science cross-disciplinarity: Assessing the human and social dynamics program," Research Evaluation, Oxford University Press, vol. 22(2), pages 134-144, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:rseval:v:22:y:2013:i:2:p:134-144
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    1. Shiji Chen & Clément Arsenault & Yves Gingras & Vincent Larivière, 2015. "Exploring the interdisciplinary evolution of a discipline: the case of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 102(2), pages 1307-1323, February.
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