Multi s interdiszciplinarits az orvosi s llatorvosi szakirodalomban: megkzeltsek s megllaptsok

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Title: Multi s interdiszciplinarits az orvosi s llatorvosi szakirodalomban: megkzeltsek s megllaptsok

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Multi- és interdiszciplinaritás az orvosi és
állatorvosi szakirodalomban megközelítések és
megállapítások Multi- and interdisciplinarity
in medical and veterinary literature
approaches and assertions SCHUBERT ANDRÁS
MTAKSZI, Budapest
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Contents
Significance of multidisciplinarity
Possibilities of scientometrics in studying
multidisciplinarity
Statistics on multidisciplinarity in title
Institutional multidisciplinarity and
reference multidisciplinarity case
studies in dentistry, surgery and
veterinary medicine
Summary and conclusions

The significance of inter- and multidisciplinary
research cannot be overestimated in the 21st
century science.
Interdisciplinary research (IDR) can be one of
the most productive and inspiring of human
pursuitsone that provides a format for
conversations and connections that lead to new
knowledge. NAS US, Committee on Science,
Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP) (2004)
Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research
Interdisciplinary research integrates the
analytical strengths of two or more often
disparate scientific disciplines to create a new
hybrid discipline. By engaging seemingly
unrelated disciplines, traditional gaps in
terminology, approach, and methodology might be
gradually eliminated. NIH Office of Portfolio
Analysis and Strategic Initiatives (OPASI) (2006)
NIH Roadmap for Medical Research
Multidisciplinary research takes place at the
edges of traditional disciplines and across
traditional subject boundaries. The Research
Councils believe that novel multidisciplinary
research is needed to solve many, if not all, of
the next decades major research challenges.
Research Councils UK (2006) Multidisciplinary
Research

Scientometrics has unique possibilities both in
the quantitative characterization and in the
impact assessment of inter- and multidisciplinary
research.
Multidisciplinarity can be studied on different
objects and levels
Researchers, research groups, institutions
Research areas, subfields, fields
Papers, journals, etc.
Multidisciplinarity can be characterized by
Use of specific keywords
Collaboration of authors, institutions from
various disciplines
Publication in journals from various disciplines
Citing references from various disciplines
Being cited by papers from various disciplines
The impact of multidisciplinary works can be
assessed, e.g., by their citation rate as
compared to the average of the respective
discipline(s)

In a recent publication, the occurence of the
words interdisciplinarity and
multidisciplinarity has been studied in the
titles of scientific and scholarly publications
(6183 papers between 19752006).
T. Braun, A. Schubert The growth of research
on inter- and multidisciplinarity in science and
social science papers, 19752006, Scientometrics,
Vol. 73, No. 3 (2007) 345351.

Among the major regions of the world, Europe
appears to be the most dynamically growing.

Strikingly, the majority of the most active
subfields were health related.

A more articulated picture can be obtained by
comparing the multi papers to the subfield
totals both in publication counts and in citation
rate.
Both publications and citations were counted for
the period 19962006 ESI subfield
categorization was used.

In what follows, multidisciplinarity in three
medical subfields are studied in greater detail
dentistry
surgery
veterinary medicine
Three samples of 1000 papers published in 2003
were taken from journals having the stems DENT,
SURG and VETERIN in their titles,
respectively.
For each sample, three criteria of
multidisciplinary were considered
keyword multidisciplinarity special keywords
in title, abstract, etc.
institutional multidisciplinarity
off-disciplinary co-authoring institutions
reference multidisciplinarity
off-disciplinary references

Keyword multidisciplinarity inter- and
multidisciplinarity were searched as key terms in
the title, abstracts and keywords of the papers.
Publications were counted for the period
19752007.

Institutional multidisciplinarity at least one
(but not all) of the contributing institutions
are off-discipline.
Samples of 1000 papers published in 2003

Reference multidisciplinarity more than 50
(but not all) of the cited references are
off-discipline.
Samples of 1000 papers published in 2003

Subfield shares of institutional
multidisciplinarity and its effect on citation
impact
Publication year 2003 citations were counted
for the period 20032007.

Subfield shares of reference multidisciplinarity
and its effect on citation impact
Publication year 2003 citations were counted
for the period 20032007.

Summary and conclusions
Scientometrics has various effective tools to
assess the extent and impact of multi- and
interdisciplinarity. It can be asserted that both
are remarkable and are constantly growing.
Among the three medical subfields studied in
detail, dentistry shows the lowest, surgery the
highest level of multidisciplinarity, the latter
successfully challenged by veterinary medicine in
reference multidisciplinarity.
The citation impact of papers with higher
institutional or reference multidisciplinarity
is definitely higher than the subfield average.
This is not the case for keyword
multidisciplinarity, suggesting that, among
others, multidisciplinarity is also more
effective if practiced than if just talked about.