Types and levels of collaboration in interdisciplinary research in the sciences

Journal of the American Society for Information Science

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 893-916

  Qin, Jian ^a   Lancaster, F W ^b   Allen, Bryce ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIES; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION USE; RESEARCH; SURVEYS;

INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; RESEARCH COLLABORATION;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031258747     PISSN: 00028231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199710)48:10<893::AID-ASI5>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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