Recent research has shifted to investigating knowledge integration in an interdisciplinary field and measuring the interdisciplinarity. Conventional citation analysis does not consider the context of citations, which limits the understanding of interdisciplinary knowledge integration. This study introduces a novel analytical framework to characterize interdisciplinary knowledge integration by both the content, i.e., integrated knowledge phrases (IKPs), and location of citances (i.e., citing sentences) in addition to citations. Seven knowledge categories are used to classify IKPs, including Res...
