Contingencies for Interdisciplinary Research: Matching Research Questions with Research Organizations
基于67个美国与加拿大跨学科团队的样本，发现跨学科研究更适合解决极难的研究问题和研究早期阶段，但在有明确客户时反而抑制论文、书籍等产出。
The conditions under which interdisciplinary research helps improve research performance are explored in a heterogeneous sample of 67 ongoing academic interdisciplinary teams from the United States and Canada. We conclude that interdisciplinary research is more appropriate for very difficult research questions and at early stages of the research process. Interdisciplinary research was found to inhibit the outputs of articles, books, papers, and technical reports when the research had a clearly identified client prior to the start of the project. Interdisciplinary research was not found to be more helpful for either applied or pure research. It was not found to be helpful either at the concluding stage of research or when used throughout the research process.