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Developing a new publishing model for interdisciplinary research
Author(s) -
PIDGEON Sean
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
learned publishing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.06
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-4857
pISSN - 0953-1513
DOI - 10.1087/095315108x378721
Subject(s) - publishing , teamwork , engineering ethics , sociology , division (mathematics) , knowledge management , computer science , management science , political science , engineering , law , arithmetic , mathematics
It is widely recognized that interdisciplinary collaboration in science is crucial to the success of the research endeavor, but that long‐established institutional structures based on a firm division of the disciplines tend to make such teamwork difficult to achieve in practice. The development of the Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews publishing model highlights some of the opportunities and challenges of crossing these traditional lines of demarcation.