Zhijun Ning
Angewandte Chemie (International ed.),
July 26, 2021, Volume:
60, Issue:
31
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
“My favorite thing about my lab group is interdisciplinary research atmosphere. … My biggest inspiration is walking along the grand gallery in ShanghaiTech campus …” Find out more about Zhijun Ning ...in his Introducing … Profile.
The term interdisciplinarity is frequently used to describe the nature of new research fields. But it is not always clear what these terms mean and whether new research fields do fulfill the criteria ...for truly interdisciplinary research.
This article analyses the effect of degree of interdisciplinarity on the citation impact of individual publications for four different scientific fields. We operationalise interdisciplinarity as ...disciplinary diversity in the references of a publication, and rather than treating interdisciplinarity as a monodimensional property, we investigate the separate effect of different aspects of diversity on citation impact: i.e. variety, balance and disparity. We use a Tobit regression model to examine the effect of these properties of interdisciplinarity on citation impact, controlling for a range of variables associated with the characteristics of publications. We find that variety has a positive effect on impact, whereas balance and disparity have a negative effect. Our results further qualify the separate effect of these three aspects of diversity by pointing out that all three dimensions of interdisciplinarity display a curvilinear (inverted U-shape) relationship with citation impact. These findings can be interpreted in two different ways. On the one hand, they are consistent with the view that, while combining multiple fields has a positive effect in knowledge creation, successful research is better achieved through research efforts that draw on a relatively proximal range of fields, as distal interdisciplinary research might be too risky and more likely to fail. On the other hand, these results may be interpreted as suggesting that scientific audiences are reluctant to cite heterodox papers that mix highly disparate bodies of knowledge--thus giving less credit to publications that are too groundbreaking or challenging.
The protection of minors based on the prevention of child sexual assault and crisis intervention is worthy of research and attention. Based on reviewing the existing literature, the necessity of ...strengthening the interdisciplinary research of related issues is expounded. It discusses the feasibility of strengthening the interdisciplinary research from the research ideas, contents and methods. It is concluded that “to strengthen based on child sexual assault prevention and crisis intervention of the protection of minors research to realistic innovation” the basic conclusion, put forward “Suggestions to concrete, measures to be effective, this is to ensure that the research work to achieve the expected priority” point of view.
Zhijun Ning
Angewandte Chemie,
July 26, 2021, Volume:
133, Issue:
31
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
“My favorite thing about my lab group is interdisciplinary research atmosphere. … My biggest inspiration is walking along the grand gallery in ShanghaiTech campus …” Find out more about Zhijun Ning ...in his Introducing … Profile.
A Survey of Fake News Zhou, Xinyi; Zafarani, Reza
ACM computing surveys,
09/2021, Volume:
53, Issue:
5
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
The explosive growth in fake news and its erosion to democracy, justice, and public trust has increased the demand for fake news detection and intervention. This survey reviews and evaluates methods ...that can detect fake news from four perspectives: the false knowledge it carries, its writing style , its propagation patterns, and the credibility of its source . The survey also highlights some potential research tasks based on the review. In particular, we identify and detail related fundamental theories across various disciplines to encourage interdisciplinary research on fake news. It is our hope that this survey can facilitate collaborative efforts among experts in computer and information sciences, social sciences, political science, and journalism to research fake news, where such efforts can lead to fake news detection that is not only efficient but, more importantly, explainable.
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