Journal Articles
Note that many of these are available at https://era.library.ualberta.ca/ Papers published in Knowledge Organization more than three years ago are available at https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/zeitschrift/0943-7444. Papers published in Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies (previously Issues in Integrative Studies) more than two years ago are available at https://interdisciplinarystudies.org/issues/
Claudio Gnoli, Richard Smiraglia, and Rick Szostak “Phenomenon-based Classification” Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Forthcoming.
Richard Griscom, Joshua Henry, Deborah Lee, Richard Smiraglia, Rick Szostak, and Brad Young, “Classifying Musical Medium of Performance.” Forthcoming, March 2024, Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association.
"Why teach World History?,” World History Connected, October 2023.
Deborah Lee & Rick Szostak “Classifying Musical Genres. Building Musical Form and Genre into BCC: Repurposing LCGFT Terms for Music into the Basic Concepts Classification” Knowledge Organization 49 (4):257-272, 2022.
"World History and Future Studies" World History Connected, October 2021. https://worldhistoryconnected.press.uillinois.edu/
“A Synthetic Approach to the Classification of Music” El Profesional de la Information January 2020. http://www.elprofesionaldelainformacion.com/contenidos/2020/ene/szostak.pdf
"Interdisciplinarity versus Anti-intellectual and Anti-democratic Impulses" Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2018.
"Interdisciplinarity and Adapted Physical Activity." Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly. July 2018.
"Innocuous Organizing Devices for World History," World History Connected 15:1, Feb., 2018. https://worldhistoryconnected.press.uillinois.edu/15.1/forum_szostak.html
"A Grammatical Approach to Subject Classification in Museums." Knowledge Organization 44:7, 494-505, 2017.
“Stability, Instability, and Interdisciplinarity.” Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies 35: 65-87, 2017.
“Interdisciplinary Best Practices for Adapted Physical Activity” Quest 68:1, 69–90, 2016.
“Extensional Definition of Interdisciplinarity” Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies.33, 94-117, 2015.
“Classifying Authorial Perspective” Knowledge Organization 42:7, 499-507, 2015.
“A Pluralistic Approach to the Philosophy of Classification” Library Trends, 63:3, 591-614, 2015.
“Classifying the Humanities” Knowledge Organization 41:4, 2014.
"The Basic Concepts Classification as a Bottom-Up Strategy for the Semantic Web" International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology http://www.ijkcdt.net June, 2014.
“Classifying for Social Diversity”Knowledge Organization 41:2, 160-70, 2014.
(Anna Pujadas Botey, Theresa Garvin and Rick Szostak) “Interdisciplinary Research for Ecosystem Management.”Ecosystems 17:3, 512-21, 2014. .
“The State of the Field in Interdisciplinary Research” Invited contribution, Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies 31, 2013, 44-65.
“Integrating Conceptions of Human Progress” 13400 words. The Integral Review 9:2, 348-83, June, 2013. http://integral-review.org/documents/Szostak,%20Integrating%20Conceptions%20of%20Human%20Progress,%20Vol.%209,%20No.%202.pdf
(Anna Pujadas Botey, Theresa Garvin and Rick Szostak) “Clarifying the Concept of Interdisciplinary Work in Ecosystem Management Research” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 37:2, 161-78 (June, 2012).
"Classifying Relationships", Knowledge Organization 39:3, May, 2012, 165-78.
“Toward a Classification of Relationships.” Knowledge Organization 39:2, March, 2012, 83-94.
"Complex Concepts into Basic Concepts", Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 62:11, 2247-65, 2011.
"Classifying Heterodoxy”, Journal of Philosophical Economics, 1:2, 97-126, 2008.
"Classification, Interdisciplinarity, and the Study of Science” Journal of Documentation 64:3, 319-32, 2008.
"Modernism, Postmodernism, and Interdisciplinarity", Issues in Integrative Studies, 26, 32-83, 2007.
"An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Economic Growth” International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Science, 2:3, 305-16, 2007.
"How (and How Not) to Distinguish the Humanities from Social Science" International Journal of the Humanities 5:6, 69-80, 2007.
"How and Why to Teach Interdisciplinary Research Practice” Journal of Research Practice 3:2, October, 2007.
“Whither Interdisciplinarity?” [1250 word comment] Issues in Integrative Studies 24, 145-9, 2006.
"Economic History as It Is and Should Be; Toward an Open, Honest, Methodologically Flexible, Theoretically Diverse, Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Causes and Consequences of Economic Growth” Journal of Socio-Economics, August, 2006, 727-50.
“Interdisciplinarity and the Teaching of Public Policy” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 24:4, Fall, 2005, 853-63.
"Allocating Property Rights Over Shoreline: Institutional Change in the Newfoundland Fishery" (with Ken Norrie), Newfoundland Studies, Fall, 2005, 27-56.
“Evaluating the Historiography of the Great Depression: Explanation or Single-Theory Driven?” Journal of Economic Methodology, 12:1, 2005, 35-61.
“Classifying Scholarly Theories and Methods” Knowledge Organization, 2003, 30:1, 20-35.
“Classifying Natural and Social Scientific Theories” Current Sociology, 51:1, Jan, 2003, 27-49.
“Comprehensive’ Curricular Reform: Providing Students With an Overview of the Scholarly Enterprise”, Journal of General Education, 52:1, 2003, 27-49.
“Politics and the Five Types of Ethical Analysis” International Journal of Politics and Ethics, 2:4, 2002, 275-90.
“How to Do Interdisciplinarity: Integrating the Debate”, Issues in Integrative Studies, 20, 2002, pp. 103-22.
“Intuition and Interdisciplinarity: A Reply to Mackey”, Issues in Integrative Studies, 20, 2002, pp. 131-7.
“Putting Social Structure in its Place, Schematically” Issues in Integrative Studies, 19, 2001, pp. 171-220.
“Toward a Unified Human Science”, Issues in Integrative Studies, 18, 2000, pp. 115-57.
“Unifying Human Science Schematically:The Case of Art”, NSSA Perspectives Journal, 17:1, 2000, pp.139-51.
“A Schema For Unifying Human Science: Application to Health and Population” Perspectives. Electronic journal, American Association for Behavioral and Social Sciences.
“The Economic Impacts of Road and Waterway Improvements” Transportation Quarterly, Fall, 1996, pp. 127-42.
“Transportation Improvements and the Emergence of the Factory: A Reply to Jones”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, December 1992, pp. 395-400.
“The History of Art and the Art in Economics”, History of Economics Review, Summer 1992, pp. 70-107. Reprinted in Craig Freedman and Rick Szostak, eds., Tales of Narcissus: The Looking Glass of Economic Science, New York: Nova Science, 2003.
(with Michael B Percy) “The Political Economy of the Abolition of Seigneurial Tenure”, Explorations in Economic History, January 1992, pp. 51-68.
“Institutional Inheritance and Early American Industrialization” Research in Economic History, Supplement, 1991, pp. 287-308.
“The Organization of Work: The Emergence of the Factory Revisited”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, May 1989, pp. 343-58.