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  • Is cross‑disciplinary research worth investing in for early‑career scholars?

    Nowadays, most innovative research achievements come from interdisciplinary fields. Yet cross‑disciplinary study requires more time to accumulate knowledge across different domains and faces higher publication difficulty. Would you recommend new researchers to try interdisciplinary projects?

    Yong Wu, Wen Ren and 26 others
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    • It’s definitely worthy in the long run. Interdisciplinary research has more innovation space than saturated single fields.

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      • The learning curve is really steep. I spent half a year learning basic knowledge of a neighboring discipline for my cross‑project.

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