Abstract
This ar ti cle stud ies the dy nam ics in her ent in in ter dis ci-plin ary fields, and more spe cif i cally, whether there ex ists a dis tine tion between “established” in ter disciplinaryfields and emer gent fields that have not yet earned full and sep a rate field sta tus. Sec ondly, it asks whether such a dis tine tion be tween es tab lished and “in the mak ing” in ter dis ci-plin ary ac tiv i ties have any re per cus sions on the in for ma tion seek ing be-hav ior of schol ars andresearchers who be long to one of those two categories.