Interdisciplinary Interactions in Cybernetics

Surveying the interdisciplinary interactions in cybernetics through investigating papers in WOS dates between 1986 and 2015 and visualizing and analysis of the scientific mapping.
Using scientometrics approach, “Cybernetic*” keyword is searched as title or subject in WOS. Additionally, Pajak software is used to identify related subjects to cybernetics through designing scientific map using science overlay mapping. Also, mapping word co-occurrence of citation network of superior citing categories is done using V.O.S. Viewer.
Cybernetics includes of 3 main clusters and 8 subject fields of computer science, management, engineering, electronic engineering, neuroscience, social sciences, physics, biology technology. Computer science is a core field having 7 groups and the strongest with highest impact among other disciplines. Management, computer science and artificial intelligence as well as electronic and electrical engineering are the most citing subjective categories. Two words of “system” and “approach” are the most used words in cyberneticl iterature.
The Cybernetics structure of 8 fields and 49 nodes reflects the fruitfulness of its network and wide area of interdisciplinary relationships. That is important for science policymakers to recognize new research trends.