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Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration

Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration is a research topic within Information Systems and Management. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the theory, practice, and challenges of interdisciplinary research, team science, and transdisciplinarity. It covers topics such as evaluation, funding, collaboration, education, and the role of philosophical dialogue in fostering collaborative science. The papers also delve into the barriers and strategies for successful interdisciplinary research in various fields, including health research.

  • Interdisciplinary Research
  • Team Science
  • Transdisciplinarity
  • Collaboration
  • Education
  • Evaluation
  • Funding
  • Philosophical Dialogue
  • Health Research
  • Barriers and Strategies
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+35%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
45% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration

Which countries lead Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.1k and 278 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 278 works
  3. 3 China 208 works
  4. 4 Germany 194 works
  5. 5 Canada 140 works
  6. 6 Australia 115 works
  7. 7 Netherlands 109 works
  8. 8 France 99 works
  9. 9 India 95 works
  10. 10 Italy 77 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 45.3%United Kingdom: 11.6%China: 8.6%Germany: 8.1%6 others listed: 26.4%45%largest
United States1,089 · 45.3%United Kingdom278 · 11.6%China208 · 8.6%Germany194 · 8.1%6 others listed634 · 26.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration research, followed by Aalborg University and University of Michigan.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 29 works
  2. 2 Aalborg UniversityDenmark 18 works
  3. 3 University of MichiganUnited States 17 works
  4. 4 University of TorontoCanada 16 works
  5. 5 Virginia TechUnited States 14 works
  6. 6 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 14 works
  7. 7 Aarhus UniversityDenmark 13 works
  8. 8 Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 13 works
  9. 9 Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway 12 works
  10. 10 The University of SydneyAustralia 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration include David Moher, Jeremy Grimshaw and Gordon Brent Mills.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  3. 3 Gordon Brent Mills United States 265k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration?

The most cited paper in Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration is "Key competencies in sustainability: a reference framework for academic program development" (Arnim Wiek, Lauren Withycombe, Charles L. Redman, 2011), with 2,949 citations. Next come "Transdisciplinary research in sustainability science: practice, principles, and challenges" (2,931) and "Why genes in pieces?" (2,339).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Key competencies in sustainability: a reference framework for academic program development Arnim Wiek, Lauren Withycombe, Charles L. Redman · Sustainability Science 18 May 2011 2,949
2 Transdisciplinary research in sustainability science: practice, principles, and challenges Daniel J. Lang, Arnim Wiek, Matthias Bergmann et al. · Sustainability Science Open access Feb 2012 2,931
3 Why genes in pieces? Walter Gilbert · Nature Feb 1978 2,339
4 The Structure of Science Ernest Nagel, David Hawkins · American Journal of Physics Oct 1961 2,235
5 Team Effectiveness 1997-2007: A Review of Recent Advancements and a Glimpse Into the Future John E. Mathieu, M. Travis Maynard, Tammy L. Rapp et al. · Journal of Management 7 Mar 2008 2,095
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Where is Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration research done?

The largest centres of Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), Washington D.C. (United States) and New York (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 83 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 40 works
  3. 3 Washington D.C.United States 33 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 33 works
  5. 5 MelbourneAustralia 30 works
  6. 6 BerlinGermany 29 works
  7. 7 TorontoCanada 28 works
  8. 8 SydneyAustralia 27 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 27 works
  10. 10 CopenhagenDenmark 23 works
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Where is the best place to study Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration?

Among universities, judged by research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The University of Sydney and Aalborg University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 20.28%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Vrije Universiteit A…The University of Sy…Monash UniversityAalborg University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands 70.733.7%7.1×9 +166.3%
2The University of SydneyAustralia 64.926.5%3.2×12 +18.3%
3Aalborg UniversityDenmark 64.114.8%10.3×18 -1.2%
4Monash UniversityAustralia 63.122.1%3.9×12 +27.0%
5Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway 59.515.4%7.0×12 +147.9%
6Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 55.520.5%4.6×10 +48.2%
7University of WashingtonUnited States 55.020.8%3.4×12 +18.6%
8Colorado State UniversityUnited States 54.322.0%8.3×9 +206.9%
9University of HelsinkiFinland 54.217.0%5.3×12 +5.2%
10University of MichiganUnited States 52.010.0%3.6×17 +51.5%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration, country by country

Is Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 35% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration0.018% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration9.9% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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