DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03692-2

Summary
The article focuses on knowledge mobilization strategies. It has a form of a reflective narrative and is based on the experiences of the Spatial Reasoning Study Group (SRSG). The research is designed to demonstrate the importance of transdisciplinary research approaches in the educational field. Firstly, the theoretical background of spatial reasoning and its relation to transdisciplinary studies and knowledge mobilization is provided. Secondly, the two-part research approach is outlined with the description of the respective methods and findings. The first part is dedicated to descriptive statistical analysis combined with bi-modal network analysis of highly cited articles to investigate spatial terms within and across the disciplines. In the second part, the unimodal analysis using bibliographic coupling networks is performed. Finally, the authors conclude that education acts like a distribution center for knowledge mobilization and is an important port for gathering and employing knowledge across the disciplines.

Relevance for Complex Systems Knowledge
The importance of education as a center for knowledge mobilization is discussed in this article in analyzing complex systems which include interaction of mathematics, psychology, computer science and philosophy. The importanceof education is justified by the fact that educational research results in competence to gather and analyze information, to develop skills and experiences and to transfer them to other disciplines. The authors provide main purposes of projects conducting a complex network analysis, mainly, synthesis of current knowledge across the discipline and identifying their interactions. However, the research results conclude that just summing the knowledge of experts in different fields is not enough to study the phenomena of complex systems and effective ways of thinking should be developed.

Point of Strength
The article provides a discussion on how different research fields are related based on terms within and across disciplines and terms of bibliographic citation analysis measure across multiple disciplines. The strength of relations between different disciplines in analyzing complex systems and ways to evaluate it are described.