Scientific disciplines
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What are the main divisions of science and how do they relate to each other?
When does a new research area stop being a subfield and become an independent discipline?
Why do branches of science split as a field matures and its methods diversify?
Being interdisciplinary: a field of its own or just a meeting point of disciplines?
What is the newest branch of science to have formed in the last thirty years?
How do interdisciplinary fields become disciplines in their own right over time?
Which disciplines are currently splitting into two - and what drives the split?
Is biochemistry a branch of biology or of chemistry?
Where do computer science and data science belong in a traditional map of science?
Why is neuroscience treated as separate from both biology and psychology?
Why do outlines of science keep adding new top level categories every decade?
Why do citation patterns reveal discipline boundaries better than department names do?
Is an outline of science just a list of fields or does it need a hierarchy?
Can a two author paper bridging physics and economics count as interdisciplinary research?
What exactly falls under applied science compared with engineering and pure science?
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