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academic discipline

field of study organized around a distinct body of knowledge, theories, methods, or subject matter
Class type of: field of study Q11862829

Facts

7 properties
Instance of
knowledge classification
Subclass of
field of study
Facet of
science[7]
Different from
Disziplin, Disciplina, Fach, Discipline[9][10][11][12]
Main Wikidata property
P2579[8]
Properties for this type
P2184[13]
Said to be the same as
branch of science, field of study, field of work, school subject[3][4][5][6]
🏷️ Also known as
en field of research en academic specialty en academic discipline en discipline en sub-discipline en branch (academic) en academic field en field of study en academic specialism en research field en academic branch ar مجال دراسة أكاديمي ar تخصص أكاديمي ar مبحث أكاديمي cs obor studia cs vědní odvětví cs vědní disciplína da akademisk disciplin da forskningsfelt de Fachwissenschaft
🔖 Identifiers · 21
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85141103
GND ID
4151461-0
OpenAlex ID
C2993191867, C8795937
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Students at the Science Battle 2017 in Tartu 1.jpg ↗
BabelNet ID
00007985n
EU Knowledge Graph item ID
DBM
Equivalent class
www.kyoto-project.eu
Freebase ID
/m/03h1sh1
GCMD keyword ID
5b98265f-7cd1-4976-bc78-1ac1e6b9b90f
ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization ID
discipline
ISOCAT ID
6838
KBpedia ID
FieldOfStudy
Show all 21 identifiers +9
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
8795937, 2908633680
NDL Authority ID
00562212
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007566085605171
National Library of Latvia ID
000347821
Quora topic ID
Academic-Discipline
ScienceDirect topic ID
economics-econometrics-and-finance/academic-discipline, social-sciences/academic-discipline
Topic's main category
Category:Academic disciplines
Yale LUX ID
concept/b7906318-5218-4c68-86f2-24ef6be825e2
Zhihu topic ID
19558360

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🔗 Connections
Examples 1595
mathematics, science, music, astronomy, philosophy, physics, biology, geography +1587 more
Subtypes 45
history, theology, reading, social work, natural language processing, negotiation, traditional Chinese medicine, etiology +37 more
Different from 2
Discipline, Disciplina
Has these parts 2
nutrition, rural development
Said to be the same as 2
branch of science, school subject
← Category contains 2
Category:Academic disciplines, Category:Subfields by academic discipline
← Different from 2
Discipline, Disciplina
← Has characteristic 2
curriculum, academic department
← Said to be the same as 2
branch of science, school subject
EU Knowledge Graph item ID 1
DBM
Facet of 1
science
Subclass of 1
field of study
Topic's main category 1
Category:Academic disciplines
Wikimedia outline 1
outline of academic disciplines
← Category combines topics 1
Category:Research institutes by academic discipline
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Academic disciplines
← Facet of 1
multidisciplinarity
← Has part(s) of the class 1
language arts
← Is a list of 1
outline of academic disciplines
← Model item 1
field of study
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Summary

academic discipline is a knowledge classification[1]. It is a type of field of study[2].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 18d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://www.kyoto-project.eu/ontologies/Kyoto#discipline__sub
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://www.kyoto-project.eu/ontologies/Kyoto#discipline__subject__subject_area__subject_field__field__field_of_study__study__bailiwic-eng-3.0-05996646-"
  2. 21d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    ISOCAT ID → 6838
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ ISOCAT ID: 6838, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7331559|discipline (#7331559)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  3. 5w ago · Shanekusch · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikidata description → field of study organized around a distinct body of knowledge, theories, methods,
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'bar', 'bew', 'bg', 'bn', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'et',
    Sitelink count → 53
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||ja, en */"
  4. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Academic disciplines
    Wikimedia outline → outline of academic disciplines
    Subclass of → field of study
    Instance of → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007566085605171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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