Purpose: “Interdisciplinarity” is a hot topic in science- and technology-policy. However, the concept of “Interdisciplinarity” is both abstract and complex, and therefore difficult to measure using a single indicator. A variety of measures for diversity and interdisciplinarity have been...

Climate change as a complex physical and social issue has gained increasing attention in the natural as well as the social sciences. Climate change research has become more interdisciplinary and even transdisciplinary as a typical Mode-2 science that is also dependent on an applicational context...

We provide an overview of the common origins of qualitative and quantitative forms of STS, offering a discursive account of this history. We then demonstrate how scientometric techniques can be used to address substantive research questions, and we provide examples relevant both to the origins...