Facilitating social and natural science cross-disciplinarity: Assessing the human and social dynamics program

Research Evaluation

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 134-144

  Garner, Jon ^a   Porter, Alan L ^a,b   Borrego, Maura ^c,d   Tran, Elizabeth ^d   Teutonico, Rita ^e  

^a Search Technology Inc   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Directorate for Education and Human Resources   (United States)

^d NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^e UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

human and social dynamics program; interdisciplinary research indicators; research profiling; science overlay maps; social network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875193167     PISSN: 09582029     EISSN: 14715449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/reseval/rvt001     Document Type: Article

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