Interdisciplinary research by the numbers

Van Noorden, Richard

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Interdisciplinary research by the numbers

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Research methods from different disciplines continue to merge.
“Nowadays, interdisciplinary research is on the rise (Van Noorden, 2015), and research methods from different disciplines also continue to merge.”
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Interdisciplinary research is on the rise.
“Nowadays, interdisciplinary research is on the rise (Van Noorden, 2015), and research methods from different disciplines also continue to merge.”
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Authors: Van Noorden, R.
Venue: Nature
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2015-09-16
Volume: 525
Issue: 7569
Pages: 306-307
ISSN: 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/525306a
OpenAlex: W1869470212
Cited by: 443
References: 0
Citations by year: 2026: 27 · 2025: 49 · 2024: 59 · 2023: 47 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 41 · 2020: 44 · 2019: 38 · 2018: 33 · 2017: 46 · 2016: 21 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 1
Type: other
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/text-and-data-mining (tdm)
www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/text-and-data-mining (vor)
Locations: Nature (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Research, Science, and Academia
Keywords: interdisciplinary research, research impact, citation analysis, bibliometric analysis, research collaboration
MeSH terms: Publishing, Research, Bibliometrics, Interdisciplinary Communication, Internationality, Interdisciplinary Studies

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