Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2006
Abstract
An active learning project in an introductory graduate course used multidimensional scaling of the name index in Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century, by Gary Gaile and Cort Willmott, to reveal some features of the discipline's recent intellectual structure relevant to the relationship between human and physical geography. Previous analyses, dating to the 1980s, used citation indices or Association of American Geographers spe- cialty-group rosters to conclude that either the regional or the methods and environmental subdisciplines bridge human and physical geography. The name index has advantages over those databases, and its analysis reveals that the minimal connectivity that occurs between human and physical geography has recently operated more through environmental than through either methods or regional subdisciplines.
Pages
594-608
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Geographical Review
Volume
96
Number
34
Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Recommended Citation
Sluyter, A., Augustine, A. D., Bitton, M. C., Sullivan, T. J., & Wang, F. (2006). The recent intellectual structure of geography. Geographical Review, 96 Retrieved from https://repository.lsu.edu/geoanth_pubs/34