Post-interdisciplinary frames of reference: exploring permeability and perceptions of disciplinarity in the social sciences

Scientometrics

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1695-1714

  Bowman, Timothy D ^a   Tsou, Andrew ^a   Ni, Chaoqun ^a   Sugimoto, Cassidy R ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disciplinarity; Disciplines; Permeability; ProQuest; Subject categories

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939883876     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-014-1338-z     Document Type: Article

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