{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,29]],"date-time":"2025-12-29T22:21:38Z","timestamp":1767046898755,"version":"3.38.0"},"reference-count":63,"publisher":"SAGE Publications","issue":"3","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2009,3,24]],"date-time":"2009-03-24T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1237852800000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/page\/policies\/text-and-data-mining-license"}],"content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Journal of Information Science"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2009,6]]},"abstract":"<jats:p> Constructing interdisciplinary knowledge is particularly difficult because scientific knowledge is situated in its discipline. Researchers must find common ground to share, and this causes high transaction costs. This article reports a method of conceptual analysis to elicit, analyse and compare conceptual models used by individual researchers, with the ultimate aim to facilitate researchers in sharing these models. Using this method, an analyst derives concepts and their mutual relations from documents, and defines them in natural language. We qualitatively analysed all writings of four researchers from an interdisciplinary research project and validated the resulting conceptual models in semi-structured interviews. The method was found to be effective in eliciting concepts, even those used implicitly. The interviews also revealed mechanisms by which researchers adopt new concepts or choose particular terms. The analysis costs are high but not prohibitive, and are shown to diminish with each researcher added to the analysis. <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1177\/0165551508099087","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,3,25]],"date-time":"2009-03-25T02:18:20Z","timestamp":1237947500000},"page":"259-278","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":27,"title":["Eliciting conceptual models to support interdisciplinary research"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"35","author":[{"given":"Pieter J.","family":"Beers","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands,"}]},{"given":"Pieter W.G.","family":"Bots","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Cemagref, Montpellier Regional Centre, France, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2009,3,24]]},"reference":[{"issue":"11","key":"atypb1","first-page":"20","volume":"1","author":"M. Du","year":"2007","journal-title":"Journal of Knowledge Management"},{"volume-title":"The Theory of Knowledge - A Thematic Introduction","year":"1998","author":"P.K. Moser","key":"atypb2"},{"issue":"11","key":"atypb3","first-page":"61","volume":"6","author":"E. Rosch","year":"1999","journal-title":"The Journal of Consciousness Studies"},{"volume-title":"Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy","year":"1996","author":"S. Blackburn","key":"atypb4"},{"key":"atypb5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1207\/s15516709cog1302_7"},{"key":"atypb6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1051\/nss:2004039"},{"key":"atypb7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1287\/isre.7.1.111"},{"key":"atypb8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s00267-005-0038-0"},{"key":"atypb9","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1017\/CBO9780511803932"},{"volume-title":"The Present and the Promise of Knowledge Management","year":"2000","author":"C. Despres","key":"atypb10"},{"key":"atypb11","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1108\/13673270310492967"},{"key":"atypb12","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1287\/orsc.2.1.40"},{"key":"atypb13","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3102\/0013189X018001032"},{"key":"atypb14","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/030631289019003001"},{"key":"atypb15","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/11812289_15"},{"key":"atypb16","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s10021-001-0081-5"},{"volume-title":"Group Model Building: Facilitating Team Learning Using System Dynamics","year":"1996","author":"J.A.M. Vennix","key":"atypb17"},{"key":"atypb18","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1057\/palgrave.jors.2601581"},{"key":"atypb19","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0263-7863(02)00090-X"},{"issue":"2","key":"atypb20","first-page":"32","volume":"2","author":"R. McDermott","year":"1999","journal-title":"Knowledge Management Review"},{"key":"atypb21","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"E. Motta, The knowledge modelling paradigm in knowledge engineering. In: S.K. Chang (ed.), Handbook of Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 1 (World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore, 2002) 589-614.","DOI":"10.1142\/9789812389718_0024"},{"key":"atypb22","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0169-023X(97)00056-6"},{"key":"atypb23","unstructured":"P.H. Speel, A.T. Schreiber, W. van Joolingen, G. van Heijst and G.J. Beijer, Conceptual modelling for knowledge-based systems. In: A. Kent and J.G. Williams (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, Vol. 44 ( Marcel Dekker, New York, 2001) 107-132."},{"volume-title":"Knowledge Engineering And Management: The CommonKADS Methodology","year":"2000","author":"A.T. Schreiber","key":"atypb24"},{"key":"atypb25","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1142\/S0218843003000711"},{"key":"atypb26","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1504\/IJMSO.2006.008766"},{"key":"atypb27","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S1389-1286(03)00226-3"},{"key":"atypb28","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"M. Vargas-Vera , E. Motta, J. Domingue, M. Lanzoni, A. Stutt and F. Ciravegna, MnM: Ontology driven semi-automatic and automatic support for semantic markup. In: Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management: Ontologies and the Semantic Web. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2473 (Springer, Berlin, 2002) 213-221.","DOI":"10.1007\/3-540-45810-7_34"},{"key":"atypb29","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1006\/ijhc.1995.1081"},{"key":"atypb30","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1006\/ijhc.1995.1066"},{"key":"atypb31","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1109\/69.971187"},{"key":"atypb32","first-page":"287","volume":"8","author":"J.M. Bradshaw","year":"1993","journal-title":"International Journal of Intelligent Systems"},{"key":"atypb33","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.12775\/ths.2002.036"},{"issue":"7","key":"atypb34","volume":"6","author":"W.Y. Arms","year":"2000","journal-title":"D-Lib Magazine: The Magazine of Digital Library Research"},{"key":"atypb35","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/016555150102700101"},{"volume-title":"The Professional Quest for Truth: A Social Theory of Science and Knowledge","year":"1992","author":"S. Fuchs","key":"atypb36"},{"key":"atypb37","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0167-9236(00)00120-2"},{"key":"atypb38","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1207\/s15327809jls0303_3"},{"key":"atypb39","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1038\/227669a0"},{"key":"atypb40","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/(SICI)1097-4571(1999)50:9<799::AID-ASI9>3.0.CO;2-G"},{"key":"atypb41","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/(SICI)1097-4571(198707)38:4<228::AID-ASI2>3.0.CO;2-G"},{"key":"atypb42","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0004-3702(97)00008-8"},{"key":"atypb43","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/0165551506067125"},{"key":"atypb44","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.websem.2005.10.002"},{"key":"atypb45","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.0307755101"},{"key":"atypb46","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ijhcs.2005.09.004"},{"key":"atypb47","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/11603412_5"},{"volume-title":"A framework for comparing conceptual models, presented at the Workshop on Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architecture","year":"2005","author":"D. Pfeiffer","key":"atypb48"},{"volume-title":"Learning with Multiple Representations","year":"1998","author":"M.W. Van Someren","key":"atypb49"},{"key":"atypb50","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s10726-006-9030-1"},{"volume-title":"Ontology lerning form text: An overview","year":"2005","author":"P. Buitelaar","key":"atypb51"},{"volume-title":"Ethics: A Defence of Conceptual Analysis","year":"1998","author":"F. Jackson","key":"atypb52"},{"volume-title":"The theory underlying concept maps and how to construct them, Technical Report IHMC CmapTools 2006-01 (Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, 2006)","author":"J.D. Novak","key":"atypb53"},{"key":"atypb54","first-page":"28","volume":"21","author":"F. Marton","year":"1986","journal-title":"Journal of Thought: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly"},{"key":"atypb55","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1017\/CBO9780511557842"},{"volume-title":"The Intentional Stance","year":"1987","author":"D.C. Dennett","key":"atypb56"},{"key":"atypb57","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1017\/S0140525X00005756"},{"key":"atypb58","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1468-0394.1996.tb00279.x"},{"volume-title":"40th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","author":"J. Novak","key":"atypb59"},{"volume-title":"Proceedings of the Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web, International Semantic Web Conference","author":"P. Haase","key":"atypb60"},{"key":"atypb61","unstructured":"A. Lenci, S. Montemagni, V. Pirrelli and G. Venturi, NLP-based ontology learning from legal texts. A case study. In: P. Casanovas, M. A. Biasiotti , E. Francesconi, and M.T. Sagri (eds) Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Legal Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Techniques (LOAIT'07) (Stanford University, Stanford, CA, US, 2007) 113-129."},{"key":"atypb62","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1108\/13673270610670894"},{"volume-title":"4th International Conference of the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE)","author":"P.J. Beers","key":"atypb63"}],"container-title":["Journal of Information Science"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1177\/0165551508099087","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1177\/0165551508099087","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,3]],"date-time":"2025-03-03T14:20:43Z","timestamp":1741011643000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/0165551508099087"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2009,3,24]]},"references-count":63,"journal-issue":{"issue":"3","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2009,6]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1177\/0165551508099087"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0165551508099087","relation":{},"ISSN":["0165-5515","1741-6485"],"issn-type":[{"type":"print","value":"0165-5515"},{"type":"electronic","value":"1741-6485"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2009,3,24]]}}}