{"pk":29424,"title":"Formalizing Interdisciplinary Collaboration in the CogSci Community","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Is cognitive science interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary? Wecontribute to this debate by examining the authorship struc-ture and topic similarity of contributions to the Cognitive Sci-ence Society from 2000 to 2019. We compare findings fromCogSci to abstracts from the Vision Science Society over thesame time frame. Our analysis focuses on graph theoretic fea-tures of the co-authorship network—edge density, transitivity,and maximum subgraph size—as well as clustering within thetopic space of CogSci contributions. We also combine struc-tural and semantic information with an analysis of homophily.We validate this approach by predicting new collaborations inthis year’s CogSci proceedings. Our results suggest that cog-nitive science has become increasingly interdisciplinary in thelast 19 years. More broadly, we argue that a formal quantita-tive approach which combines structural co-authorship infor-mation and semantic topic analysis provides inroads to ques-tions about the level of interdisciplinary collaboration in thecognitive science community.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"co-authorship networks; topic modeling; interdis-ciplinarity; multidisciplinarity; scientometrics"}],"section":"Complex Dynamics","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3pd556nv","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Lauren","middle_name":"","last_name":"Oey","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, San Diego","department":""},{"first_name":"Isabella","middle_name":"","last_name":"DeStefano","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, San Diego","department":""},{"first_name":"Erik","middle_name":"","last_name":"Brockbank","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, San Diego","department":""},{"first_name":"Edward","middle_name":"","last_name":"Vul","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, San Diego","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29424/galley/19284/download/"}]}