An increasing amount of studies focuses on the difficulties to develop transdisciplinary approaches due to the sub-division and specialization of research disciplines.
Owing to the specialization of research activities of each nation, international collaboration could be effective in promoting the creation, transmission, and sharing of knowledge, and in posing a serious obstacle to the diverse types of collective, exchangeable, and integrated knowledge [ 45].
This need not be taken as an indication of the increasing atheism among process philosophers, but merely as an effect of the increasing specialization of academic research.
Increased specialization of scientific research, pressure to pursue mainstream topics, and the difficulty of obtaining grant money for the most audacious projects encourage scientists to focus on the incremental.
For example, Ron Sun in [66] has stated that "integrative computational cognitive modelling may serve in the future as an antidote to the increasing specialization of scientific research" [66], p. 14.
His areas of research specialization are in the use of econometric, experimental, and game-theoretic tools to analyze the impact of development programs.
Reviewer and editor selection for peer review is getting harder for authors and publishers due to the specialization onto narrower areas of research carried by the progressive growth of the body of knowledge.
Teaching suits generalists rather than specialists, thereby reducing incentives for the kind of specialization research requires.
Table 2 contains detailed results.> -wrap-foot> a p < .05, Cohen's d = 0.472 b p = .08 Data about students' professional plans consisted of their responses to five questions concerning: preferred sector and setting of work, planned choice of specialization, consideration of a research career, and desire to work abroad.
Finding experts for anonymous peer review is becoming harder due to progressive specialization of scientists on narrow research fields and other issues, such as author name ambiguity.
This current dilemma for policy-makers on the specialization of HSAs warrants further research and debate - especially in light of the new moves to also have HSAs take on roles in chronic disease surveillance and management [ 24, 25].
