Literature-Related Discovery (LRD): Introduction and background

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 165-185

  Kostoff, Ronald N ^a  

^a OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cataracts; Discovery; Disparate disciplines; Information retrieval; Innovation; Interdisciplinary; Literature assisted discovery; Literature based discovery; Multidisciplinary; Multiple Sclerosis; Parkinson's Disease; Radical discovery; Raynaud's Phenomenon; Science and technology; Solicitations; Text mining; Unconnected disciplines

Indexed keywords

EID: 38649130176     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2007.11.004     Document Type: Short Survey

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