TY - JOUR
T1 - Promoting interdisciplinary research collaboration
T2 - a systematic review, a critical literature review, and a pathway forward
AU - Newman, Joshua
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Interdisciplinary research has been a topic of interest for many decades–perhaps longer. And yet, even now, there is still much we do not understand about how to stimulate collaboration across research disciplines. This article reports the results of a systematic review of the academic literature on strategies for promoting new interdisciplinary research collaborations, which returned only a very small number of empirical studies. A broader review of the scholarship in this area reveals a literature that is highly theorized, but not adequately operationalized for empirical investigation of how to enable new collaborations. A shift toward a better formulation of research questions, with a view toward generating more empirical data on practical strategies for connecting researchers and encouraging them to work together across disciplinary boundaries, will be required to further the research agenda on interdisciplinary collaboration.
AB - Interdisciplinary research has been a topic of interest for many decades–perhaps longer. And yet, even now, there is still much we do not understand about how to stimulate collaboration across research disciplines. This article reports the results of a systematic review of the academic literature on strategies for promoting new interdisciplinary research collaborations, which returned only a very small number of empirical studies. A broader review of the scholarship in this area reveals a literature that is highly theorized, but not adequately operationalized for empirical investigation of how to enable new collaborations. A shift toward a better formulation of research questions, with a view toward generating more empirical data on practical strategies for connecting researchers and encouraging them to work together across disciplinary boundaries, will be required to further the research agenda on interdisciplinary collaboration.
KW - Interdisciplinary research
KW - multidisciplinary research
KW - research collaboration
KW - transdisciplinary research
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85148282041&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/02691728.2023.2172694
DO - 10.1080/02691728.2023.2172694
M3 - Review Article
AN - SCOPUS:85148282041
SN - 0269-1728
VL - 38
SP - 135
EP - 151
JO - Social Epistemology
JF - Social Epistemology
IS - 2
ER -