Validating Measures of Interdisciplinarity: Linking Bibliometric Measures to Ethnographic Studies of Engineering Research Labs

Abstract

This paper reflects the results to date of an ongoing project that is examining how the results of specific examples of interdisciplinary research are reflected in scholarly publications over time. We seek to compare knowledge based on ethnographic studies of a well-established researcher and his colleagues against bibliometric indicators of cognitive integration in specific papers produced by this researcher over time.