Hjørland and Nissen Pedersen (2005,

Hjørland and Nissen Pedersen (2005, p. 594) end their recent paper in this Journal with
a claim that “a theory of classification is especially connected to science studies”. They
do not make a similar claim regarding “interdisciplinary studies,” but rather propose
an approach to classifying scholarly documents that they appreciate must produce
different systems of classification for different fields of inquiry. This brief paper draws
on recent literature at the intersection of the study of interdisciplinarity and the study
of science to suggest an alternative vision to theirs of the possibilities of classifying at
least scientific (scholarly) documents[1].