This study explores the information processes and work situations of interdisciplinary
scientists. The analysis focuses on structural and strategic elements of information exchange …

Interdisciplinary inquiry has become more pervasive in recent decades, yet we still know
little about the conduct of this type of research or the information problems associated with it …

It is common today for scientists to conduct research in collaboration with their colleagues
from different institutions and disciplines. This study collected a sample of 846 scientific …

Interdisciplinary collaboration has become of particular interest as science and social
science research increasingly crosses traditional boundaries, raising issues about what …

The authors describe a large‐scale, longitudinal citation analysis of intellectual trading
between information studies and cognate disciplines. The results of their investigation reveal …

Successful interdisciplinary research performance, it is suggested, depends on such
structural and process factors as leadership, team characteristics, study bounding, iteration …

Interdisciplinarity is considered the best way to face practical research topics since synergy
between traditional disciplines has proved very fruitful. Studies on interdisciplinarity from all …

A~ STRACT BEFOREINFORMATION PROFESSIONALS CAN BEGIN to improve existing
services in research libraries, they need to understand the information work involved in the …

Organizing for interdisciplinary research must overcome two challenges to collaboration: the
cognitive incommensurability of knowledge and the political economy of research based in …

Collaboration is often a critical aspect of scientific research, which is dominated by complex
problems, rapidly changing technology, dynamic growth of knowledge, and highly …