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External, Not Internal Challenges to Interdisciplinary Research
Author(s) -
Shinn Marybeth
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1007/s10464-006-9057-0
Subject(s) - health psychology , work (physics) , engineering ethics , public health , sociology , psychology , public relations , political science , medicine , engineering , nursing , mechanical engineering
This commentary draws on personal experience with interdisciplinary collaborations to suggest that Maton, Perkins, and Saegert (this issue) may overstate the challenges internal to interdisciplinary work groups. It supports their discussion of external challenges, and comments on the efforts they suggest to further interdisciplinary work.