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On Disciplinary Fragmentation and Scientific Progress

Why are some scientific disciplines, such as sociology and psychology, more fragmented into conflicting schools of thought than other fields, such as physics and biology? Furthermore, why does high fragmentation tend to coincide with limited scientific progress? We analyzed a formal model where scie...

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Autores principales: Balietti, Stefano, Mäs, Michael, Helbing, Dirk
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4366147/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25790025
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0118747