Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Academic Cartography of Sugar Sweetened Beverages: Scientific and Technical Interdisciplinarity

博士论文研究：含糖饮料的学术制图：科学技术跨学科性

• 批准号: 1633509
• 负责人: Monica Gaughan
• 金额: $ 0.74万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1633509&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Academic; Cartography

This research investigates the interaction between scientific and legal academic publications to understand interdisciplinary communication and illuminate how science can inform and influence government policy through legal academic papers. While many researchers have studied patterns in scientific articles, little research contemplates how legal academic articles fit into the publication enterprise. Legal publications are housed in different academic databases, and are the product of a different publication structure primarily curated by law students. Unlike scientific articles, many legal articles specifically target statutory, regulatory, and judicial policy. These articles can and do influence government policy. Additionally, articles on the same topic may discuss that topic in vastly different ways in legal versus scientific papers due to a difference in training and academic culture. This research looks at one specific topic 'sugar sweetened beverages' that is currently trending in both scientific and academic publications to serve as a case study. It examines the network patterns of how scientific and legal articles cite one another across two academic publication databases (SCOPUS and LexisNexis). In addition to looking at the citation patterns, this research also looks at the textual content of these articles using a natural language processing technique and creates a second network that maps the articles based on their content similarity. By looking at the differences between the citation patterns and the textual content similarity of the articles, this research can identify papers and authors that straddle the boundaries between science and the law. These boundary-spanning authors will then be interviewed about their research process. These citation and content network maps, along with qualitative data about key interdisciplinary authors will explore a key area of interaction between scientific researchers and legal researchers. A better understanding of these relationships can lead to better communication between scientists, legal scholars, and even policy makers with improved impacts for scientific research.

这项研究调查了科学和法律学术出版物之间的相互作用，以了解跨学科交流并阐明科学如何通过法律学术论文来告知和影响政府政策。 尽管许多研究人员研究了科学文章中的模式，但很少有研究考虑法律学术文章如何融入出版企业。 法律出版物存放在不同的学术数据库中，是主要由法学院学生策划的不同出版物结构的产物。 与科学文章不同，许多法律文章专门针对法律、监管和司法政策。 这些文章可以而且确实影响政府政策。 此外，由于培训和学术文化的差异，关于同一主题的文章在法律论文和科学论文中可能会以截然不同的方式讨论该主题。 这项研究着眼于当前科学和学术出版物中流行的一个特定主题“含糖饮料”，作为案例研究。 它研究了两个学术出版物数据库（SCOPUS 和 LexisNexis）中科学和法律文章如何相互引用的网络模式。 除了查看引用模式之外，这项研究还使用自然语言处理技术查看这些文章的文本内容，并创建第二个网络，根据内容相似性映射文章。 通过查看文章的引用模式和文本内容相似性之间的差异，这项研究可以识别跨越科学和法律界限的论文和作者。 然后，这些跨界作者将接受有关他们研究过程的采访。 这些引文和内容网络图以及有关关键跨学科作者的定性数据将探索科学研究人员和法律研究人员之间互动的关键领域。更好地理解这些关系可以促进科学家、法律学者甚至政策制定者之间更好的沟通，从而提高科学研究的影响力。