Cross-disciplinary research: What configurations of fields of science are found in grant proposals today?

Research Evaluation

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 30-36

  Mutz, Rüdigger ^a   Bornmann, Lutz ^b   Daniel, Hans Dieter ^a,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coding system; Cross disciplinarity; Latent class analysis; Research evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84982253578     PISSN: 09582029     EISSN: 14715449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/reseval/rvu023     Document Type: Article

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