Conceptualizing the interdisciplinary diffusion and evolution of emerging fields: The case of systems biology

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Highlights：

• Systems biology's interdisciplinary diffusion is studied using network analyses.

• Journals and their subject categories are the units of the temporal analyses.

• A core–intermediary–periphery structure is detected using betweenness centrality.

• Cluster analysis is used to model interdisciplinary evolution within the structure.

• A typology of journals’ functional roles in interdisciplinary diffusion is presented.

摘要

•Systems biology's interdisciplinary diffusion is studied using network analyses.•Journals and their subject categories are the units of the temporal analyses.•A core–intermediary–periphery structure is detected using betweenness centrality.•Cluster analysis is used to model interdisciplinary evolution within the structure.•A typology of journals’ functional roles in interdisciplinary diffusion is presented.

论文关键词：Diffusion,Interdisciplinarity,Network analysis,Systems biology

论文评审过程：Received 25 June 2013, Revised 22 October 2013, Accepted 25 October 2013, Available online 16 November 2013.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2013.10.009