Academic genealogy as an indicator of interdisciplinarity: An examination of dissertation networks in Library and Information Science

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1808-1828

  Sugimoto, Cassidy R ^a   Ni, Chaoqun ^a   Russell, Terrell G ^b   Bychowski, Brenna ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC CAREERS; COMMITTEE MEMBERS; INTERDISCIPLINARITY; LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; NETWORK DATA;

EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; HISTORY; INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EDUCATION;

EID: 80051667215     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21568     Document Type: Article

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