Interdisciplinarity in Cognitive Science: A Document Similarity Analysis

Alaşehir, Oğuzhan; Acartürk, Cengiz

doi:10.1111/cogs.13222

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“…More recently, new studies show that, during the period between 2000 and 2019, the contributions to the Cognitive Science Society have become increasingly integrated, that is, more interdisciplinary and less multidisciplinary (DeStefano, Oey, Brockbank, & Vul, 2021). In addition, Alasehir and Acarturk (2022) also highlight that the scholarly domain of cognitive science has been exhibiting more manifest interdisciplinarity over the last decades. This paper addresses an important issue for research in cognitive science: identifying scholars' intellectual character strengths that favor the realization of any collaborative interdisciplinary work.…”

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Intellectual Virtues for Interdisciplinary Research: A Consensual Qualitative Analysis

Vanney,

Mesurado,

Sáenz

et al. 2023

Cognitive Science

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Through a qualitative approach, this study identified a specific subgroup of intellectual virtues necessary for developing interdisciplinary research. Cognitive science was initially conceived as a new discipline emerging from various fields, including philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, and anthropology. Thus, a frequent debate among cognitive scientists is whether the initial multidisciplinary program successfully developed into a mature interdisciplinary field or evolved into a set of independent sciences of cognition. For several years, interdisciplinarity has been an aspiration for the academy, although the difficulties limiting the success of interdisciplinary collaborations have begun to erode that initial optimism. Our analysis suggests that the problems hindering the success of interdisciplinarity can be overcome by fostering certain intellectual character strengths in scholars. The Consensual Qualitative Research method was used to analyze nine semi‐structured interviews involving researchers with a long personal trajectory of interdisciplinary research between the sciences and the humanities. Three virtue domains emerged from the interviews’ analysis: (i) intellectual virtues, (ii) social virtues, and (iii) interpersonal intellectual virtues. The virtues of the third domain intersect with intellectual and social ones. They are intellectual because they pursue epistemic goods. But, unlike other intellectual virtues, they only develop in interpersonal settings, so they can also be considered to have a social component. Interpersonal intellectual virtues can be thus defined as intellectual character traits that facilitate the acquisition of knowledge (intellectual motivation) with and through other people in a reciprocal way (social environment). These virtues are essential for developing any successful collective epistemic enterprise, interdisciplinary research being a privileged context where these qualities manifest themselves in a relevant way.

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Intellectual Virtues for Interdisciplinary Research: A Consensual Qualitative Analysis

Vanney,

Mesurado,

Sáenz

et al. 2023

Cognitive Science

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Female early-career scientists have conducted less interdisciplinary research in the past six decades: evidence from doctoral theses

Liu,

Yang,

et al. 2023

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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Interdisciplinary research is a driving force of transformative and innovative science, yet it remains unclear how early-career scientists pursue interdisciplinary research paths. Analyzing data from 675,135 doctoral theses of U.S. Ph.D. graduates who graduated from 1950 to 2016, we study the development of interdisciplinary doctoral theses in the five scientific domains of behavioral sciences, biological sciences, engineering, health and medical sciences, and mathematical and physical sciences. We propose an indicator to measure the degree of interdisciplinarity embedded in the doctoral research by employing co-occurrence matrices of subjects assigned to doctoral theses in the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Database. This study finds that interdisciplinary doctoral theses have exhibited a growing trend across different scientific domains, and universities of varying research intensity. Since the 1990s, interdisciplinary research has played a dominant role in doctoral theses within the five scientific domains. The results of multivariate regression models suggest persistent gender disparities in the interdisciplinarity level of doctoral theses. Specifically, male-authored doctoral theses demonstrate a higher level of interdisciplinarity than female-authored doctoral theses. In addition, this study suggests that being supervised by female advisors may amplify gender disparities in the interdisciplinarity level of their students’ doctoral theses. The findings indicate the potential underrepresentation of female scientists in pursuing interdisciplinary research at the early stages of their careers. Given that funding agencies have promoted interdisciplinary research and its potential benefits, the lower level of interdisciplinarity in the doctoral theses of female students may hinder their career advancement. Furthermore, our findings indicate that offering increased support to female faculty members may not only directly benefit their career development but also hold considerable significance in promoting future generations of female scientists. The findings of this study have important policy implications for advancing the careers of female scientists.

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Interdisciplinarity in Cognitive Science: A Document Similarity Analysis

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Intellectual Virtues for Interdisciplinary Research: A Consensual Qualitative Analysis

Intellectual Virtues for Interdisciplinary Research: A Consensual Qualitative Analysis

Female early-career scientists have conducted less interdisciplinary research in the past six decades: evidence from doctoral theses

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