Cross-disciplinary research: co-evaluation and co-publication practices of the CNRS laboratories

摘要: A major stake for national or international research organisations and R&D systems is to keep on funding traditional scientific disciplines while promoting inter-disciplinarity. Characterisation of cross-disciplinary relationships between communities an essential step be able identify areas which are promising technological innovation. In the present paper, we try observe such links through co-evaluation co-publication practices CNRS laboratories their evolution during 1990s. Our work based 40 sub-disciplinary assessment committees multidisciplinary organisation. Results show numerous reveal multiple types behaviour. Sub-disciplines material engineering sciences relatively well established sub-disciplines life evolving towards a more less stable alliance with other disciplines. Moreover, geo-sciences tend contrasted co-publications practices. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.