Nature features a piece on the connections between academic disciplines by looking at data on whose clicking on what online. The long and the short is that academics are reading much more widely than they're letting on in their works cited pages. The graphic shows connections between disciplines with pretty clear clustering around the hard sciences, life sciences and social sciences; social sciences seem to be perhaps the most 'promiscuous.'On a related note, here's an article suggesting how academic journals of psychological research can encourage interdisciplinary exchange of ideas. This comes from the most recent Perspectives on Pscyhological Science which has been opened up for free viewing online. It's a special issue dedicated to a discussion of how the field as a whole can be improved. There's a lot of great stuff in there.
[photo: Nature; hat tip: Zero Intelligence Agents / BPS Research Digest Online]
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