ABS: Steele, The impact of interdisciplinary research in the environmental sciences: A forestry case study."

[Gretchen Whitney]

Authors' email addresses are:
tsteele at facstaff.wisc.edu
jcstier at facstaff.wisc.edu

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AU Steele, TW
TI The impact of interdisciplinary research in the environmental
   sciences: A forestry case study
SO JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
NR 40
C1 Univ Wisconsin, Kemp Bat Resiyrces Stb, 8031 Kemp Woods Rd,
   Woodruff, WI 54568 USA.
   Univ Wisconsin, Kemp Bat Resiyrces Stb, Woodruff, WI 54568 USA.
   Univ Wisconsin, Dept Forest Ecol & Management, Madison, WI 53706 USA.
ID CITATION ANALYSIS
AB Interdisciplinary research has been identified as a critical
   means of addressing some of our planet's most urgent
   environmental problems. Yet relatively little is known about
   the processes and impacts of interdisciplinary approaches to
   environmental sciences. This study used citation analysis and
   ordinary least squares regression to investigate the
   relationship between an article's citation rate and its degree
   of interdisciplinarity in one area of environmental science;
   viz., forestry. Three types of interdisciplinarity were
   recognized-authorship, subject matter, and cited literature-and
   each was quantified using Brillouin's diversity index. Data
   consisted of more than 750 articles published in the journal
   Forest Science during the 10-year period 1985-1994. The results
   indicate that borrowing was the most influential method of
   interdisciplinary information transfer. Articles that drew
   information from a diverse set of journals were cited with
   greater frequency than articles having smaller or more narrowly
   focused bibliographies. This finding provides empirical
   evidence that interdisciplinary methods have made a measurable
   and positive impact on the forestry literature.
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PG 9
JI J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.
PY 2000
PD MAR 15
VL 51
IS 5
GA 287FK
RP Steele TW
   Univ Wisconsin, Kemp Bat Resiyrces Stb, 8031 Kemp Woods Rd, Woodruff, WI
54568 USA.
J9 J AMER SOC INFORM SCI
UT ISI:000085495700007
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