What makes interdisciplinarity difficult? Some consequences of domain specificity in interdisciplinary practice.
Research on interdisciplinary science has for the most part concentrated on the institutional obstacles that discourage or hamper interdisciplinary work, with the expectation that interdisciplinary interaction can be improved through institutional reform strategies such as through reform of peer rev...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 195; no. 2; pp. 697 - 721 |
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Feb2018
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