SynthesisHealth services research2007
Defining interdisciplinary research: conclusions from a critical review of the literature.
Synthesis in Health services research, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
67 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Area-Level Variation and Human Papillomavirus Vaccination among Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States: A Systematic Review.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2021Pooled it
- The effectiveness of large language models in medical AI research for physicians: A randomized controlled trial.Cell reports. Medicine · 2025Trial
- A conceptual methodological approach for addressing complex interdisciplinary challenges.Royal Society open science · 2026Article
- Navigating the research landscape: How paradigms shape health professions education research.Medical education · 2025Review
- Mental Health of Young People in the Post-Pandemic Era: Perspective Based on Positive Psychology and Resilience.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Review
- Inter- and transdisciplinary knowledge is critical for nature-based solutions to contribute to just urban transformations.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Using Corpus Linguistics to Investigate Approaches to Oyster Fishery Management Across Political Boundaries.Environmental management · 2025Article
- Mapping the mHealth Nexus: A Semantic Analysis of mHealth Scholars' Research Propensities Following an Interdisciplinary Training Institute.Applied sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The impact of teaching approach on horse and rider biomechanics during riding lessons.Heliyon · 2025Article
- The CeHRes Roadmap 2.0: Update of a Holistic Framework for Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of eHealth Technologies.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- An interdisciplinary team's experiences of a university-led community engagement intervention in the Tshwane district.Health SA = SA Gesondheid · 2025Article
- Research gaps and priorities for quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA).Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2024Article
- Understanding disciplinary perspectives: a framework to develop skills for interdisciplinary research collaborations of medical experts and engineers.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- Defining Practice Capacity for Cancer Care Delivery to Adolescents and Young Adults in the Community Setting: 2022 Landscape Assessment Results.Journal of adolescent and young adult oncology · 2024Article
- The Lancet Psychiatry Commission: transforming mental health implementation research.The lancet. Psychiatry · 2024Review
- Primary Care Academy: lessons learned from a large-scale innovative primary care project.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Towards a Feminist Global Health Policy: Power, intersectionality, and transformation.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Understanding and Balancing Generalist-Specialist Approaches in Dementia Research and Care Practice, Qualitative Research with 44 Dementia Professors in The Netherlands.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- The progress and trend of pro-environmental behavior research: a bibliometrics-based visualization analysis.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2023Article
- Examining the impacts of public transit on healthy aging through a natural experiment: study protocols and lessons learned from the Active El Paso project.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
7 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Authors and funding
8 authors.
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Abstract
objectiveTo summarize findings from a systematic exploration of existing literature and views regarding interdisciplinarity, to discuss themes and components of such work, and to propose a theoretically based definition of interdisciplinary research. DATA SOURCES/STUDY
settingTwo major data sources were used: interviews with researchers from various disciplines, and a systematic review of the education, business, and health care literature from January 1980 through January 2005. STUDY
designSystematic review of literature, one-on-one interviews, field test (survey). DATA COLLECTION/EXTRACTION
methodsWe reviewed 14 definitions of interdisciplinarity, the characteristics of 42 interdisciplinary research publications from multiple fields of study, and 14 researcher interviews to arrive at a preliminary definition of interdisciplinary research. That definition was then field tested by 12 individuals with interdisciplinary research experience, and their responses incorporated into the definition of interdisciplinary research proposed in this paper. PRINCIPAL
findingsThree key definitional characteristics were identified: the qualitative mode of research (and its theoretical underpinnings), existence of a continuum of synthesis among disciplines, and the desired outcome of the interdisciplinary research.
conclusionExisting literature from several fields did not provide a definition for interdisciplinary research of sufficient specificity to facilitate activities such as identification of the competencies, structure, and resources needed for health care and health policy research. This analysis led to the proposed definition, which is designed to aid decision makers in funding agencies/program committees and researchers to identify and take full advantage the interdisciplinary approach, and to serve as a basis for competency-based formalized training to provide researchers with interdisciplinary skills.
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