Academic Categories in Microsoft Academic Search
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Friday, 16 December 2011 2:21 PMOwner
Academic Categories in Microsoft Academic Search
Below comes a general classification of academic research domains used in by Microsoft Academic Search to help users discover influential publications, authors, conferences, journals and organizations. We would like to remind all the users that such a classification is rather a reference than a strict ontology, since there is no consensus on how the universe of research should be divided, i.e. how many top domains there are, and to which top domains certain subdomains should belong. One subdomain may be linked to two or even more top domains. Take the biochemistry branch for example. While some consider it as part of biology, others may consider it as a part of chemistry.
Therefore, to resolve such dispute, we classified such subdomain to one of the possible top domains and marked it with an asterisk.
·Agronomy ·Animal Science ·Fishery
·Food Science ·Forestry ·Irrigation & Water Management
·Soil Science ·Waste Management
·Archaeology ·Art History ·Classical Studies ·History
·Linguistics ·Literature ·Performance Art ·Philosophy
·Plastic Arts ·Regional Study ·Religion ·Sports & Recreation
· Biology
·Biophysics ·Biotechnology ·Cell Biology
·Ecology* ·Evolutionary Studies ·Genetics & Genealogy
·Microbiology ·Molecular Biology ·Plant & Animal Science
·Taxonomy ·Toxicology ·Virology
·Analytical Chemistry ·Applied Chemistry ·Biochemistry*
·Chromatography ·Combinatorial Chemistry ·Computational Chemistry
·Crystallography ·Inorganic Chemistry ·Mass Spectrometry
·Medicinal Chemistry ·Nuclear Magnetic Resonance ·Organic Chemistry
·Petroleum ·Photochemistry ·Physical Chemistry
·Polymer Chemistry ·Radiochemistry ·Stereochemistry
·Algorithms & Theory ·Artificial Intelligence
·Bioinformatics & Computational Biology* ·Computer Education
·Databases ·Distributed & Parallel Computing
·Graphics ·Hardware & Architecture
·Human-Computer Interaction ·Information Retrieval
·Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition ·Multimedia
·Natural Language & Speech ·Networks & Communications
·Operating Systems ·Programming Languages
·Real-Time & Embedded Systems ·Scientific Computing
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·Agricultural & Environmental Economics ·Business Administration & Economics
·Development Economics ·Economic History
·Economic Systems ·Financial Economics
·General Economics & Teaching ·Health, Education, and Welfare
·Industrial Organization ·International Economics
·Labor & Demographic Economics ·Law & Economics
·Macroeconomics & Monetary Economics ·Mathematical & Quantitative Methods
·Microeconomics ·Public Economics
·Aeronautics & Aerospace Engineering ·Biomedical Engineering
·Chemical Engineering* ·Civil Engineering
·Construction ·Electrical & Electronic Engineering
·Energy ·Industrial Engineering
·Manufacturing Technology ·Mechanical Engineering
·Mining Engineering ·Nanotechnology
·Nuclear Engineering ·Ocean Engineering
·Reliability & Risk Analysis ·Transportation Engineering
·Climate Research ·Environmental Biology & Biotechnology*
·Environmental Chemistry* ·Environmental Conservation
·Environmental Engineering* ·Environmental Health
·Environmental Medicine* ·Environmental Physics*
·Environmental Planning & Management
·Atmospheric Sciences ·Geochemistry
·Geodesy & Remote Sensing ·Geology
·Geotechnical Engineering ·Hydrology
·Meteorology ·Mineralogy & Petrology
·Glass ·Material Synthesis & Processes
·Wood
·Algebra ·Mathematical Analysis
·Control & Optimization ·Discrete Mathematics
·Mathematical Modelling ·Mathematics Education
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Friday, 16 December 2011 2:26 PMOwner
· Medicine
·Diseases ·Emergency & Critical Care
·Endocrinology ·Family Medicine
·Gynecology & Obstetrics ·Immunology
·Medical Education & Training ·Neuroscience
·Physiology ·Psychiatry & Psychology
· Physics
·Astrophysics & Space Science ·Atomic & Molecular Physics
·Chemical Physics & Material Physics ·Computational Physics
·Condensed Matter Physics ·Mathematical Physics
·Nuclear Energy ·Nuclear Physics
·Optics & Optoelectronics ·Radiation
·Geography ·Gerontology & Demography
·Law & Criminology ·Library Science
·Management ·Methodology of Social Science
·Political Science ·Public Affairs
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Friday, 21 September 2012 9:12 AM
As human knowledge grows, we discover many new fields of study which are multidisciplinary, just like Biochemistry, robotics, etc. But I agree that we still need to have high-level taxonomy of disciplines for many reasons: Scoping of search results, restricting a person's interest, etc.
So, I thought all these should be under the 'Multidisciplinary' domain. But unfortunately there are no 'subdomain' under the 'Multidisciplinary' domain. Currently biochemistry is under Chemistry & not under Biology, but I feel that all these multidisciplinary domains should be subdomains of it.
