The law of knowledge creation and flow in the formation and development of interdisciplinary fields can be explored by mining the interdisciplinary literature of scientific knowledge.Based on the location functions of terms in the literature,we propose literature spatia...MORE The law of knowledge creation and flow in the formation and development of interdisciplinary fields can be explored by mining the interdisciplinary literature of scientific knowledge.Based on the location functions of terms in the literature,we propose literature spatial theory and a knowledge growth process model for in...