Patterns of Interdisciplinary Relationships in The Social Sciences: Citation Analysis

Abstract

The paper is examining patterns of interdisciplinary relationship in thirteen disciplines such an: economy, business, history, geography, acounting, Law, psychology, social sciences, education, political science, philosophy, library and information science, and management by using citation analysis method. All the reliable scientific journals of the disciplines for the five year period from 1997 - 2001 were selected to be analyzed. From this, a sample of 3829 cited items have been analysed. The result of the research showed that the social sciences in Iran are integrated, and some disciplines are fairly receptive to the literatures out of the social sciences.