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Interdisciplinary
collaboration, Public
Health and Climate
Change
GAIA conference working
group
Nathan Bos, moderator
This session:
 Rise of team science
 Co-citation analysis of IPCC reports
 What does Bjurstrom’s correspondence analysis
mean?
 What should the role of medicine and public health
be?
 What are the barriers to multidisciplinary
collaborations?
 What are success stories known to participants?
 How did they overcome barriers?
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Milton S. Eisenhower Research Center (MERC)
Science and Technology Business Area (S&T BA)
Increase in number of authors of papers
and patents
 Multi-authored papers also receive more citations
Wuchty, S., Jones, B.F., Uzzi, B. (2007). The Increasing
dominance of teams in production of knowledge. Science, 316.
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Milton S. Eisenhower Research Center (MERC)
Science and Technology Business Area (S&T BA)
Co-authorship across institutions
Wuchty, S., Jones, B.F., Uzzi, B. (2008). Multi-University
research teams: shifting impact, geography, and
stratification in science. Science, 322.
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Milton S. Eisenhower Research Center (MERC)
Science and Technology Business Area (S&T BA)
Basic types of bibliographic studies
 Co-authorship
 Co-reference
 Documents
reference the
same sources
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good men to
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Now is the
time for all
good men to
come to the
aid of their
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Now is the
time for all
good men to
come to the
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 Co-citation
 Documents cited
by the same
sources
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Now is the
time for all
good men to
come to the
aid of their
country
Now is the
time for all
good men to
come to the
aid of their
country
Milton S. Eisenhower Research Center (MERC)
Now is the
time for all
good men to
come to the
aid of their
country
Science and Technology Business Area (S&T BA)
Co-citation study of journals cited in 3rd
IPCC reports
 Three reports from the 2001 3rd IPCC reports, 43 chapters
 96 most-cited journals (not journal articles), (6,413 references)
 Journals categorized by subject categories of Journal Citation
Reports
 What journals tend to get cited in the same chapters?
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Milton S. Eisenhower Research Center (MERC)
Science and Technology Business Area (S&T BA)
Journal clustering
 Correspondence analysis of
journal co-citation in the 43
x 96 matrix
 What does this mean for the
role of medicine and public
health within climate
change research?
Bjurström, A, and Polk, M. (2010) Climate
change and interdisciplinarity: a cocitation analysis of IPCC Third
Assessment Report. Scientometrics.
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Milton S. Eisenhower Research Center (MERC)
Science and Technology Business Area (S&T BA)
Scientific basis
Chapters
1 The Climate System: an Overview
2 Observed Climate Variability and
Change
3 The Carbon Cycle and Atmospheric
Carbon Dioxide
4 Atmospheric Chemistry and
Greenhouse Gases
5 Aerosols, their Direct and Indirect
Effects
6 Radiative Forcing of Climate Change
7 Physical Climate Processes and
Feedbacks
8 Model Evaluation
9 Projections of Future Climate Change
10 Regional Climate Information Evaluation and Projections
11 Changes in Sea Level
12 Detection of Climate Change and
Attribution of Causes
13 Climate Scenario Development
14 Advancing Our Understanding
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Impacts, adaptation and
vulnerability
Mitigation
1. Overview of Impacts, Adaptation, and
Vulnerability to Climate Change
2. Methods and Tools
3. Developing and Applying Scenarios
4. Hydrology and Water Resources
5. Ecosystems and Their Goods and Services
6. Coastal Zones and Marine Ecosystems
7. Human Settlements, Energy, and Industry
8. Insurance and Other Financial Services
9. Human Health
10. Africa
11. Asia
12. Australia and New Zealand
13. Europe
14. Latin America
15. North America
16. Polar Regions (Arctic and Antarctic)
17. Small Island States
18. Adaptation to Climate Change in the
Context of Sustainable Development and
Equity
19. Vulnerability to Climate Change and
Reasons for Concern: A Synthesis
1. Setting the Stage: Climate Change
and Sustainable Development
2. Greenhouse Gas Emission
Mitigation Scenarios and Implications
3. Technological and Economic
Potential of Greenhouse Gas
Emissions Reduction
4. Technological and Economic
Potential of Options to Enhance,
Maintain, and Manage Biological
Carbon Reservoirs and Geoengineering
5. Barriers, Opportunities, and
Market Potential of Technologies and
Practices
6. Policies, Measures, and
Instruments
7. Costing Methodologies
8. Global, Regional, and National
Costs and Ancillary Benefits of
Mitigation
9. Sector Costs and Ancillary
Benefits of Mitigation
10. Decision-making Frameworks
Milton S. Eisenhower Research Center (MERC)
Science and Technology Business Area (S&T BA)
More from Bjurstrom
 Country of origin and
influence of authors and
editors
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Milton S. Eisenhower Research Center (MERC)
Science and Technology Business Area (S&T BA)
What are the barriers to multidisciplinary
collaboration?
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Milton S. Eisenhower Research Center (MERC)
Science and Technology Business Area (S&T BA)
What are success stories of
multidisciplinary collaboration?
 What elements enabled these projects to
succeed despite barriers?
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Milton S. Eisenhower Research Center (MERC)
Science and Technology Business Area (S&T BA)
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Milton S. Eisenhower Research Center (MERC)
Science and Technology Business Area (S&T BA)
Growth of climate change science
Stanhill, G. 2001. The growth of climate change
science: A scientometric study 48, no. 2.
Climatic change: 515 - 524.
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Milton S. Eisenhower Research Center (MERC)
Science and Technology Business Area (S&T BA)
Stanhill 2001 study of Climate Change
publications
 Doubling period from
1970-1995 doubled
every 7 years
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Science and Technology Business Area (S&T BA)