The construction of interdisciplinarity: The development of the knowledge base and programmatic focus of the journal Climatic Change, 1977–2013
The construction of interdisciplinarity: The development of the knowledge base and programmatic focus of the journal Climatic Change, 1977–2013
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DOI：
10.1002/asi.23528
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发表时间：
2014-11
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
I. Hellsten;L. Leydesdorff
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作者：
I. Hellsten;L. Leydesdorff
气候变化作为一个复杂的物理和社会问题，在自然科学和社会科学中受到越来越多的关注。作为典型的模式2科学，气候变化研究已经变得更加跨学科，甚至是跨学科，这也依赖于其进一步发展的应用环境。我们建议在1977-2013年气候变化科学核心期刊《气候变化》的社论中，将跨学科作为参考模式和规划重点的知识库的共同构建。首先，我们对期刊知识库进行了分析，并在文章参考文献的基础上绘制了期刊关系图。其次，我们通过分析社论的语义来跟踪纲领焦点的发展。我们认为，跨学科是不同议程之间共同构建的结果：选择出版物进入期刊知识库，以及在社论中调整计划重点以适应政治背景。我们的研究结果表明，从引用多学科期刊《自然》和《科学》到引用专业领域期刊的知识库正在扩大。规划重点遵循政策导向的问题，并结合公共隐喻。
Climate change as a complex physical and social issue has gained increasing attention in the natural as well as the social sciences. Climate change research has become more interdisciplinary and even transdisciplinary as a typical Mode‐2 science that is also dependent on an application context for its further development. We propose to approach interdisciplinarity as a co‐construction of the knowledge base in the reference patterns and the programmatic focus in the editorials in the core journal of the climate‐change sciences—Climatic Change—during the period 1977–2013. First, we analyze the knowledge base of the journal and map journal–journal relations on the basis of the references in the articles. Second, we follow the development of the programmatic focus by analyzing the semantics in the editorials. We argue that interdisciplinarity is a result of the co‐construction between different agendas: The selection of publications into the knowledge base of the journal, and the adjustment of the programmatic focus to the political context in the editorials. Our results show a widening of the knowledge base from referencing the multidisciplinary journals Nature and Science to citing journals from specialist fields. The programmatic focus follows policy‐oriented issues and incorporates public metaphors.