a specialist field of study or work within a broader discipline
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subdiscipline
The evolution of this subdiscipline has been described in relation to social gerontology.
Tobiasz-Adamczyk Beata 2015, 'Relation between medical sociology and sociology of ageing or later life. A new challenges,social expectations and dilemmas', Anthropological Reviewhttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/anre.2015.78.issue-3/anre-2015-0018/anre-2015-0018.xml?format=INT. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In many ways, this subdiscipline relies on results from related disciplines such as ecology, sociology and psychology.
Marko Porčić 2016, 'Ethnoarchaelogy – the Present as Key to the Past', Etnoantropološki Problemihttp://eap-iea.org/index.php/eap/article/view/451. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The underlying theories are those that affect the subdiscipline of literary history, especially the theories within the deconstructive paradigm.
Muhri Muhri 2017, 'Perkembangan Tema Puisi-Puisi Penyair Bangkalan: Kajian Sejarah Sastra', Atavismehttp://atavisme.web.id/index.php/atavisme/article/view/305. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Lack of interest in ageing has resulted in the necessity to develop a new subdiscipline - sociology of aging.
Tobiasz-Adamczyk Beata 2015, 'Relation between medical sociology and sociology of ageing or later life. A new challenges,social expectations and dilemmas', Anthropological Reviewhttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/anre.2015.78.issue-3/anre-2015-0018/anre-2015-0018.xml?format=INT. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Scholars often engage with a small fragment of graffiti writing using ideas popular in their own-subdiscipline.
Jannes Van Loon 2014, '“Just writing your name?” An analysis of the spatial behaviour of graffiti writersin Amsterdam', Belgeohttp://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/13062. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Nonetheless, the economy of high-throughput sequencing cannot be fully leveraged in the subdiscipline of functional metagenomics.
Kathy N Lam, Michael W Hall, Katja Engel, Gregory Vey, Jiujun Cheng, Josh D Neufeld,Trevor C Charles 2014, 'Evaluation of a pooled strategy for high-throughput sequencing of cosmid clones frommetagenomic libraries.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4049660?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We then use bibliometric analyses to describe each subdiscipline and investigate trends in collaboration and productivity.
Mason Youngblood, David Lahti 2018, 'A bibliometric analysis of the interdisciplinary field of cultural evolution', Palgrave Communicationshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41599-018-0175-8. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)