Vocabulary sharing among subjects belonging to the hierarchy of sciences

• Published in: Scientometrics Vol. 125; no. 3; pp. 1965 - 1982
• Main Author: Benjafield, John G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.01.2020; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Anglophones; Astronomy; Between-subjects design; Biology; Chemistry; Computer Science; Economics; Information Storage and Retrieval; Language; Library Science; Linguistics; Mathematical analysis; Mathematics; Philosophy; Philosophy of language; Physics; Political science; Psychology; Scientometrics; Sociology; Hierarchy of the sciences; Vocabulary sharing; Principle of proximity; Polysemy

To what extent do the vocabularies of mathematics, computing, astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, sociology, economics, political science, philosophy, and linguistics overlap? To explore this question, samples of the anglophone vocabularies of these subjects were created using the Ox...