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I NVESTIGATING INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH DISCOURSE Aug 2013 Aug 2015 ESRC-funded project: ES/K007300/1 Paul Thompson and Dominik Vajn with Susan Hunston, Akira Murakami M AIN AIM to achieve a fuller understanding of the distinctive

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INVESTIGATING INTERDISCIPLINARY

RESEARCH DISCOURSE

Aug 2013 – Aug 2015 ESRC-funded project: ES/K007300/1

Paul Thompson and Dominik Vajn

with Susan Hunston, Akira Murakami

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MAIN AIM

to achieve a fuller understanding of the

distinctive features of discourse practices in interdisciplinary research and of how they differ from discourse practices in conventional disciplines Global Environmental Change – a successful interdisciplinary

journal published by Elsevier

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BROAD QUESTIONS

To what extent does the field of ‘global environmental

change’ operate as a unified whole?

Do authors in the field broaden their messages to a

multidisciplinary audience, or do they write in the same way that they would if they were writing for a monodisciplinary audience?

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DATA

* Full holdings of a successful IDR journal, Global

Environmental Change, 1990-2010

676 articles * Samples from 5 IDR journals and 5 specialist

journals, 2001-2010

Surveys, interviews with editors, board members,

authors

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SELECTION PROCEDURE

Scopus (abstract and citation database of peer-

reviewed literature)

GEC is associated with: Ecology; Global and Planetary Change; Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law; Geography, Planning and Development Observation: many articles in GEC deal with social policy and with

international relations;

  • nly about 20 percent of the articles have mathematical

equations and other symbolic formulae in them

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Look for monodisciplinary journals with a high clustering coefficient, and multidisciplinary journals with a low clustering coefficient.

Journals with connections to journals which are themselves well- connected to one another are said to have a high clustering coefficient

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  • Sketch

Engine

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THIS PAPER VS THIS STUDY

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% AEE B CEUS EP GEC JRS AWR JSIS PS REE TRTE

this paper this study

find confirm reveal indicate explore argue discuss

  • utline

In this paper – a key trigram for GEC

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Multidisciplinary journals 7K 6K 5K 4K

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Similarity of linguistic profile between EP and PS:

  • ne multidisciplinary, the other monodisciplinary
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GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE (GEC)

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ABOUT THE JOURNAL

Total number of papers: 676 Range: 1990/1 - 2010 All original research articles (Scopus)

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GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

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HOWEVER…

107 papers were non-research articles (mainly

viewpoint articles)

569 papers used in labelling

  • nly 434 used in multi-dimensional analysis, as

papers needed to be >2000 words

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PROJECT CORPUS

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INTERDISCIPLINARITY

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INTERDISCIPLINARITY

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INTERDISCIPLINARITY

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INTERDISCIPLINARITY IN GEC

ske.li/interdisciplinary

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NUMBER OF AUTHORS

Collaboration between disciplines implies that

papers should generally be multi-authored

Multinational, collaborative, cooperative,

intergovernmental – all imply multiple parties

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NUMBER OF AUTHORS

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PROPORTION OF AUTHORS

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NUMBER OF AUTHORS

Single authorship is predominant in early years Increase in multiple authors is a general trend in all

disciplines (Elsevier)

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PAPER LABELLING

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LABELLING

Initial categories: Issues Policy discussion Quantitative empirical study and modelling Qualitative study Research agenda Research framework Other

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55% AGREEMENT

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SECOND CATEGORISATION

4 categories: Empirical Research agenda and frameworks Policy discussion Other

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66%-85% AGREEMENT

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LABELLING

Analysed 400 papers 169 to go Covering the whole 20 year period

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PAPER TYPES PER YEAR

2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18

1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Empirical Other Policy Agenda

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LABELLING

Early years agenda setting Defining the journal’s purpose and goals Kyoto protocol – increase in policy papers The notion of vulnerability – discussed in 2003 and

redefined in 2007

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LABELLING

The increase in agenda and policy papers is

marked by a decrease in empirical papers

However, setting out the agenda is followed by an

increase in empirical papers

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PAPER TYPES PER YEAR

2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18

1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Empirical Other Policy Agenda

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CONCLUSION

not labels to categorise all the types of academic

papers

rather a useful framework for our analysis based on the types of papers included in the GEC

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