Disciplinary Roots of 300 Top-Ranked Scientific Contributors to Gerontology: From Legacy to Enriching Our Discovery.
Disciplinary Roots of 300 Top-Ranked Scientific Contributors to Gerontology: From Legacy to Enriching Our Discovery.
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300 位老年学顶级科学贡献者的学科根源：从遗产到丰富我们的发现。
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10.1093/gerona/glac129
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2022
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Ferraro,KennethF
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许多人认为老年学是一个多学科的研究领域，但哪些学科对该领域的研究影响最大？结合综合评分的数据，包括多个引用指标和最高学位的信息，我们检查了300名排名靠前的老年学学者的学科来源。尽管人们努力将老年学与老年病学区分开来，但在过去的60年里，超过30%的老年学最有影响力的学者拥有医学学位。老年学的其他主要贡献者包括心理学、社会学、生物学、生物化学和遗传学。尽管老年学的学科起源可能在未来几十年发生变化，但我们认为生物医学科学可能仍然是老年学发展的核心。为了在老年学领先学者的科学贡献的基础上，未来的研究应反映概念的准确性和科学创新，同时优先考虑方法的严谨性和透明度。
Gerontology is viewed by many as a multidisciplinary field of inquiry, but which disciplines have had the greatest impact on research in the field? Combining data from a composite score incorporating multiple citation indicators with information on the highest degree, we examine the disciplinary origins of the 300 top-ranked scholars in gerontology. Despite efforts for gerontology to be distinct from geriatrics, more than 30 percent of the most influential scholars in gerontology during the past 6 decades hold a degree in medicine. Other fields of the leading contributors to gerontology include psychology, sociology, biology, biochemistry, and genetics. Although the disciplinary origins of gerontology will likely shift in the coming decades, we conclude that biomedical sciences are likely to remain core to the development of gerontology. To build on the scientific contributions of leading scholars in gerontology, future research should reflect conceptual precision and scientific innovation while prioritizing methodological rigor and transparency.