Interdisciplinary in science: A tentative typology of disciplines and research areas

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 1237-1249

  Morillo, Fernanda ^a   Bordons, María ^a   Gómez, Isabel ^a  

^a Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INFORMATION THEORY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; INTERDISCIPLINARITY;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 0142155057     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.10326     Document Type: Article

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