PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Trujillo, Caleb M.
AU  - Long, Tammy M.
TI  - Document co-citation analysis to enhance transdisciplinary research
AID  - 10.1126/sciadv.1701130
DP  - 2018 Jan 01
TA  - Science Advances
PG  - e1701130
VI  - 4
IP  - 1
4099  - http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/1/e1701130.short
4100  - http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/1/e1701130.full
SO  - Sci Adv2018 Jan 01; 4
AB  - Specialized and emerging fields of research infrequently cross disciplinary boundaries and would benefit from frameworks, methods, and materials informed by other fields. Document co-citation analysis, a method developed by bibliometric research, is demonstrated as a way to help identify key literature for cross-disciplinary ideas. To illustrate the method in a useful context, we mapped peer-recognized scholarship related to systems thinking. In addition, three procedures for validation of co-citation networks are proposed and implemented. This method may be useful for strategically selecting information that can build consilience about ideas and constructs that are relevant across a range of disciplines.