Understanding interdisciplinary knowledge integration through citance analysis: A case study on eHealth

Highlights：

• lThe citances were applied to investigate what and how knowledge from source disciplines was integrated into the eHealth field.lThe noun phrases shared between the citances and the corresponding references were identified and categorized into seven categories.lCitation location and citation age reflect how knowledge was used in the interdisciplinary field.lThe role of source disciplines can be revealed by the location and content of the in-text references.lA correlation between knowledge categories and the sections they are used is observed.