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Published on: May 30, 2025
Social network analysis of interdisciplinarity in obesity research
Michael Bales1, Stephen B Johnson, Chunhua Weng
1Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA .
Abstract:
Transdisciplinary research accelerates scientific progress. Despite the value of social network analysis to characterize interdepartmental collaboration, institutions have been slow to adopt the approach. We use the approach to characterize collaboration among obesity researchers at our institution, identifying cores of researchers engaged in frequent collaborations. Providing an objective view of research across an institution, social network analysis is a baseline for efforts to facilitate transdisciplinary collaboration.
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