A framework for knowledge integration and diffusion

Liu, Yuxian; Ràfols, Ismael; Rousseau, Ronald

doi:10.1108/00220411211200310

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“…They extended and generalized the first approach (e.g., Rafols, Leydesdorff , et al 2012;Liu, Rafols & Rousseau 2012), and focus on interdisciplinarity as knowledge integration (Porter et al 2006). Their aim is to develop set of generic measures for interdisciplinarity, which has been applied on, for example, individual papers or sets of papers (Rafols & Meyer 2010) and on research groups (Rafols, Leydesdorff, et al 2012).…”

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The dynamics of interdisciplinary research fields: the case of river research

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Besselaar³

2014

Scientometrics

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Interdisciplinarity results from dynamics at two levels. Firstly, research questions are approached using inputs from a variety of disciplinary fields. Secondly, the results of this multidisciplinary research feed back into the various research fields. This may either contribute to the further development of these fields, or may lead to disciplinary reconfiguration. If the latter is the case, a new interdisciplinary field may emerge. Following this perspective, the scientific landscape of river research and river science is mapped to assess to which current river research is a multi-disciplinary endeavor, and to which extent it results in a new emerging (inter)disciplinary field of river science. The paper suggests that this two level approach is a useful method to study interdisciplinary research and, more generally, disciplinary dynamics.With respect to river research, we show that it is mainly performed in several fields (limnology, fisheries & fish research, hydrology & water resources, and geomorphology) that hardly exchange knowledge. The different river research topics are multidisciplinary in nature, as they are shared by different fields. However, river science does not emerge as an interdisciplinary field, and often-mentioned new interdisciplinary fields such as hydroecology or hydromorphology are not (yet) visible. There is hardly any involvement of social within river research. Finally, the field of ecology occupies a central position within river research, whereas an expected engineering field is shown absent. This together may signal the acceptance of the ecosystem-based paradigm in river management, replacing the traditional engineering paradigm.

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The dynamics of interdisciplinary research fields: the case of river research

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2014

Scientometrics

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“…Leydesdorff (2007) explored network centralities as indicators of interdisciplinarity. Liu et al (2012) saw interdisciplinarity as one side of the knowledge integration (via interdisciplinary work) and knowledge diffusion duality and proposed a general framework for their study.…”

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A general framework for describing diversity within systems and similarity between systems with applications in informetrics

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Building on the ideas of Stirling (J R Soc Interface, 4(15), [707][708][709][710][711][712][713][714][715][716][717][718][719] 2007) and Rafols and Meyer (Scientometrics, 82(2), 263-287, 2010), we borrow models of genetic distance based on gene diversity and propose a general conceptual framework to investigate the diversity within and among systems and the similarity between systems. This framework can be used to reveal the relationship of systems weighted by the similarity of the corresponding categories. Application of the framework to scientometrics is explored to evaluate the balance of national disciplinary structures, and the homogeneity of disciplinary structures between countries.

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“…Chini indicates human behaviour lead by rules of organization situation and social resources. The knowledge transferred by individual behaviour matches the receiving element situation needs [5]. Therefore, the reciprocal action on factors of knowledge, personality and environmental will affect member knowledge associated integration by influencing the members to absorb knowledge.…”

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The Mechanism of Knowledge Associated Integration of Interdisciplinary Research Team Based on Absorption Ability

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Abstract. Interdisciplinary research team (IDRT) to solve complex, major multidisciplinary problem, is an important organization form. Members thought fusion and multidisciplinary knowledge integration is the key of implementing interdisciplinary team sustainable competitive advantage. According to the theory of knowledge absorptive capacity, this paper has analyzed knowledge associated integration mechanism of interdisciplinary team. First, the paper analyses the characteristics of absorbing ability cognitive mediation, subject link together mechanism, dimension conversion mechanism and reciprocal decision mechanism. Second, this paper builds an absorption evolution model of knowledge associated integration of interdisciplinary research team. Finally, it simulates and analyzes the evolution characteristics of interdisciplinary team knowledge network, and proposes management strategy.

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A framework for knowledge integration and diffusion

Cited by 50 publications

References 26 publications

The dynamics of interdisciplinary research fields: the case of river research

The dynamics of interdisciplinary research fields: the case of river research

A general framework for describing diversity within systems and similarity between systems with applications in informetrics

The Mechanism of Knowledge Associated Integration of Interdisciplinary Research Team Based on Absorption Ability

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