The phrase "narrow discipline" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a specific, limited area of study or expertise within a broader field.
Example: "The research focused on a narrow discipline of environmental science, specifically the impact of urbanization on local ecosystems."
Alternatives: "specific field" or "limited area of study."
The narrow discipline of the doctorate might, one may surmise, have desiccated his intellect.
Foreign policy-making should not be a narrow discipline: we should bring a wide range of experts into the process.
When you view engineering as a narrow discipline, the chances are that it is not communicated in the most exciting way to students either.
As a value investor, Wigmore keeps to a narrow discipline that shuns many Internet stocks.
In the modern and fast developing world of science, when researchers frequently specialize in a unique and narrow discipline, scientists like Joseph Fenstermacher are unusual.
Mr Khurana worries that business-school academics have become too entrenched in their narrow disciplines to play the leading role they once did in defining a new body of management science for practitioners.His colleague, Pankaj Ghemawat, has written a new book that comes encouragingly close to that ideal.
However, there remain disconnects between some regulatory and other bodies, which appear to be related to their tradition of looking at issues from a more narrow, discipline-specific perspective.
The OA figures obtained for a few select narrow disciplines are interesting but don't give the broad picture.
Some of the isolation results from academic structures that allow hiring and promotion to be controlled by narrow disciplines.
Primary care continues to need more research to answer essential questions: its clinical practice remains unsupported by evidence to a greater degree than in other more narrow disciplines.
Echoing the problems captured in the literature on the economics of attention (Lanham, 2006), our interviewees complained about not being able to read everything that was published even in their own narrow disciplines.
