Table 5 Representative articles for each interdisciplinary emergent topic.

From: Identifying interdisciplinary emergence in the science of science: combination of network analysis and BERTopic

Science Categories-Emergent Topic

Representative Article

LSB-TE

Mechanical Properties and Composition of Natural Fibrous Materials

0–1: Kain et al. (2015)

0–2: Lavalette et al. (2016)

0–3: Candelier et al. (2017)

Sustainable Environmental Technologies and Resource Management

1–1: Egle et al. (2015)

1–2: Palma-Rojas et al. (2017)

1–3: Harijani et al. (2017)

Cancer Biomarker Expression in Clinical Patient Groups

2–1: Liu et al. (2017)

2–2: Liu and Li (2017)

2–3: Qi et al. (2017)

LSB-PS

Marine Biodiversity and Climate Impact Studies

0–1: Chen et al. (2016)

0–2: Bataille et al. (2016)

0–3: Lowery et al. (2017)

Clinical Trial Modeling and Simulation Techniques

1–1: French et al. (2016)

1–2: Luo et al. (2016)

1–3: Lu (2017)

Chitosan Bioactivity and Drug Delivery Applications

2–1: Zhao et al. (2016)

2–2: Berah et al. (2017)

2–3: Gomes et al. (2017)

PS-TE

Adsorption and Membrane Processes for Water Treatment

0–1: Ahmed (2016)

0–2: Zhang et al. (2016)

0–3: Saadati et al. (2017)

Heat Transfer Modeling and Analysis in Fluid Systems

1–1: Colombo and Fairweather (2016)

1–2: Wu et al. (2017).

1–3: Daabo et al. (2017)

LSB-PS-TE

Flood Risk Assessment and Spatial Modeling

0–1: Ding et al. (2017)

0–2: Chian and Wilkinson (2015)

0–3: Rizeei et al. (2016)

Protein-Molecule Docking and Interaction Dynamics

1–1: Shamim et al. (2015)

1–2: Khan et al. (2017)

1–3: Bobovská et al. (2016)

  1. Note: The representative articles are preceded by the topic number and a number index, e.g., “0-1”.