Identifying social science engagement within agroecology: Classifying transdisciplinary literature with a semi-automated textual classification method.

ABSTRACT: Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary fields of inquiry and action have been important academic frontiers in recent years. The field of agroecology is a prime example of transdisciplinarity. With roots in the biophysical sciences, social sciences, and peasant movements, publications in agroecology have been growing rapidly in recent decades. Here we explain a method-the script-expert adaptive classification (SEAC) method-that allows us to examine the engagements between agroecology and the social sciences by identifying publications within the agroecological literature that engage with social science at various levels. Using the term "agroecology" and its iterations, we gathered a corpus of agroecology literature up to and including 2019 with 12,398 unique publications from five publicat

SUBMITTER: Pinzon N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9897586 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature