In this paper, we investigate how the choice to conduct interdisciplinary work affects a researcher's career. Using data on 23,926 articles published by 6,105 researchers affiliated with the University of Florida in the period 2008-2013, we show that synthesizing knowledge from diverse fields...

A transdisciplinary case study focuses on a particular phenomenon in its social, cultural, economic and ecological context. Transdisciplinary means, first of all, that people from different fields - such as science, administration, art or business - conduct research together on socially relevant...

Interdisciplinary research is a popular mode of knowledge production that becomes intensively promoted by research centers all across the globe. Despite the facilitation of interdisciplinary research, however, scholars working in these centers are ‘disciplined.’ Career promotions, funding...

In this qualitative paper, we have undertaken an interdisciplinary approach to review certain fundamental assumptions of Economics and certain fundamental concepts of Islam in order to obtain novel and holistic insights about humanity and its experience with religion. We have found that certain...