GERALD LEMAINE, ROY MACLEOD, MICHAEL MULKAY and PETER WEINGART (editors), Perspectives on the emergence of scientific disciplines, The Hague and Paris, Mouton, (West Berlin, W. de Gruyter), 1976, 8vo, pp. xi, 281, DM.50.00. The disciplines represented in the twelve essays which comprise this book include agricultural chemistry, thermodynamics, physical chemistry, biophysics, x-ray protein cryst...

This paper discovers patterns of knowledge dissemination among scientific disciplines. While the transfer of knowledge is largely unobservable, citations from one discipline to another have been proven to be an effective proxy to study disciplinary knowledge flow. This study constructs a knowledge flow network in that a node represents a Journal Citation Report subject category and a link denot...

A novel interface design approach is presented for navigating and exploring salient intellectual structures inherited in scientific literature. We describe the development of a 3-dimensional knowledge space based on domain modelling and analysis. This is a generic and extensible approach. It demonstrates the potential of a novel interface design metaphor for tracking research frontiers in scien...

Throughout the development of the sociology of science, the study of normal scientific activity has focused on the general stratification and communication system in science. This seems to affect all scientific fields and manifests itself most clearly in the skewed distributions of productivity and rewards. There have been productivity studies on scientists of a variety of disciplines, includin...

This article analyzes the effect of interdisciplinarity on the scientific impact of individual articles. Using all the articles published in Web of Science in 2000, we define the degree of interdisciplinarity of a given article as the percentage of its cited references made to journals of other disciplines. We show that although for all disciplines combined there is no clear correlation between...