ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the historical and recent state of interdisciplinarity in cognitive science. Cognitive Science is a high quality journal that has citation impact levels among the upper tiers of social science journals. The descriptions of the journal suggest that the journal should be quite interdisciplinary. One measure of disciplinary membership is departmental affiliation. To examine disciplinary participation in the journal, they coded the departmental affiliations of the first authors of all articles excluding editorials, commentaries, and special issues. Another measure of interdisciplinary activity is the extent to which new work builds on previous work in other disciplines. A third measure of interdisciplinarity of the journal involves the methodologies of the work reported in the journal articles. There is also no particular reason why the many constituent disciplines and possible pairwise combinations among constituent disciplines of cognitive science should cohere at the level of one big cognitive science social world.
