Neuroscience bridging scientific disciplines in health: Who builds the bridge, who pays for it?
Neuroscience bridging scientific disciplines in health: Who builds the bridge, who pays for it?
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DOI：
10.1007/s11192-018-2887-3
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发表时间：
2018-11-01
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3.9
通讯作者：
Ghaffarzadegan, Navid
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作者：
Xu, Ran;Ghaffarzadegan, Navid
本研究的目的是探讨受个人和机构因素影响的健康相关领域的跨学科研究动态。我们研究了1996-2014年间来自美国六个主要学科的50多万篇博士论文的主题。研究发现：(1)近年来，生物科学与工程、生物科学与行为科学的交叉研究呈上升趋势，而生物科学与工程、生物科学与行为科学的交叉研究呈上升趋势；(2)在学科层面，围绕神经科学的跨学科研究正在迅速增加，神经科学正在成为各学科之间最重要的桥梁之一。进一步的调查表明，跨学科神经科学研究的趋势是由跨部门的机构趋势驱动的，并且在落后的神经科学资金投入与跨学科神经科学论文的产出之间存在关联。总体而言，我们的研究结果为健康领域跨学科研究的动态性质、主题作为连接不同学科的作用以及构建桥梁的人力和资金资本提供了新的见解。
The purpose of this study is to investigate the dynamics of cross-disciplinary research in health-related fields as affected by individual and institutional factors. We examine the topics of more than 500,000 doctoral dissertations from U.S. institutions in six major disciplines in 1996-2014. We find that (1) the overall extent of cross-disciplinary studies has remained steady over the years, while there is an increasing trend of cross-disciplinary research between biological sciences and engineering, as well as biological sciences and behavioral sciences, especially in recent years; and (2) at the subject level, the cross-disciplinary research around neuroscience is rapidly increasing, and neuroscience is becoming one of the most important bridges across subjects in various disciplines. A further investigation shows that the tendency to conduct cross-disciplinary neuroscience research is driven by an institutional trend that occurs across various departments, and there is an association between lagged neuroscience funding input and the production of cross-disciplinary neuroscience dissertations. Overall, our results offer new insights into the dynamic nature of cross-disciplinary research in health, the role of topics as bridging different disciplines, and human and funding capital in building the bridges.