Boundary object or bridging concept? A citation network analysis of resilience
Boundary object or bridging concept? A citation network analysis of resilience
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DOI：
10.5751/es-07484-200202
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发表时间：
2015-01-01
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Hellebrandt, Denis
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作者：
Baggio, Jacopo A.;Brown, Katrina;Hellebrandt, Denis
许多最近的研究观察到越来越多的重要性，影响力和弹性作为一个概念来理解系统或个人的能力，以应对变化的分析。该术语在不同的科学领域以及公共话语和政策领域都取得了突出地位。因此，复原力被称为一个边界对象或桥接概念，能够促进跨学科的沟通和理解，协调行为者或利益攸关方群体，并就特定政策问题建立共识。我们提出了一个网络分析的文献计量学数据，以了解在何种程度上可以被认为是一个边界对象或桥接概念的跨学科和科学领域的联系。我们分析了994篇论文和它们之间的35，952次引用，以揭示领域之间和领域内的联系和联系。我们根据不同的领域，模块和子领域分析了网络，显示出高度聚集的引文网络。分析介数使我们能够识别特定的论文如何跨越领域，以及不同的领域如何联系在一起。除了少数特定的论文外，大多数论文都只引用自己领域内的文章。我们的结论是，弹性在一定程度上是一个边界对象，因为有不同的学科和领域的共同理解。然而，它作为一个桥接概念的局限性更大，因为跨领域的引用集中在特定的学科和论文中，因此不同的领域不会广泛或经常地相互引用。有一些迹象表明，复原力正被用作一个跨学科概念，以连接科学领域，特别是社会生态系统，这本身可能构成一个新兴的分领域。
Many recent studies observe the increasing importance, influence, and analysis of resilience as a concept to understand the capacity of a system or individual to respond to change. The term has achieved prominence in diverse scientific fields, as well as public discourse and policy arenas. As a result, resilience has been referred to as a boundary object or a bridging concept that is able to facilitate communication and understanding across disciplines, coordinate groups of actors or stakeholders, and build consensus around particular policy issues. We present a network analysis of bibliometric data to understand the extent to which resilience can be considered as a boundary object or a bridging concept in terms of its links across disciplines and scientific fields. We analyzed 994 papers and 35,952 citations between them to reveal the connectedness and links between and within fields. We analyzed the network according to different fields, modules, and sub-fields, showing a highly clustered citation network. Analyzing betweenness allowed us to identify how particular papers bridge across fields and how different fields are linked. With the exception of a few specific papers, most papers cite exclusively within their own field. We conclude that resilience is to an extent a boundary object because there are shared understandings across diverse disciplines and fields. However, it is more limited as a bridging concept because the citations across fields are concentrated among particular disciplines and papers, so the distinct fields do not widely or routinely refer to each other. There are some signs of resilience being used as an interdisciplinary concept to bridge scientific fields, particularly in social-ecological systems, which may itself constitute an emerging sub-field.