Quality issues in cross-disciplinary research: Towards a two-pronged approach to evaluation

Social Epistemology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 165-176

  Aagaard Hansen, Jens ^a   Svedin, Uno ^b  

^a DANISH BILHARZIASIS LABORATORY   (Denmark)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Criteria; Cross disciplinarity; Evaluation; Inter disciplinarity; Multi disciplinarity; Research; Trans disciplinarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 68249088186     PISSN: 02691728     EISSN: 14645297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02691720902992323     Document Type: Article

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