Interdisciplinarity at the journal and specialty level: The changing knowledge bases of the journal cognitive science

• Published in: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Vol. 65; no. 1; pp. 164 - 177
• Main Authors: Leydesdorff, Loet, Goldstone, Robert L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.01.2014; Wiley; Wiley Periodicals Inc
• Subjects: Animation; Artificial intelligence; Bibliometrics. Scientometrics; Bibliometrics. Scientometrics. Evaluation; Cognition; Cognitive psychology; Cognitive science; Comparative analysis; Delineation; Discriminant analysis; Exact sciences and technology; Expert systems; Factor analysis; Information and communication sciences; Information science. Documentation; Interdisciplinary Approach; Interdisciplinary aspects; Interdisciplinary subjects; Knowledge bases (artificial intelligence); knowledge representation; Library and information science. General aspects; Psychology; Referencing; Scholarly publishing; Sciences and techniques of general use; Studies; Subject fields; Tubes; Visualization; Factor analysis; Follow up study; Periodical; Interdisciplinary field

Using the referencing patterns in articles in Cognitive Science over three decades, we analyze the knowledge base of this literature in terms of its changing disciplinary composition. Three periods are distinguished: (A) construction of the interdisciplinary space in the 1980s, (B) development of an...