Coverage of integration is often included in texts dealing more generally with interdisciplinarity and includes treatment of one or more of: what is being integrated (eg different epistemologies, mental models, and/or judgments), method/s are used for integration (eg dialogue or modelling methods) and conditions required for successful integration (additional time, reflexivity, development of a common language, productive disagreement).

The subtopic of incommensurability has been added as it is also critical to recognise that not all of the diversity provided by taking a pluralistic approach can be neatly integrated. Sometimes there is just no common ground between different perspectives. Sometimes integration is thwarted by the specific circumstances at play; for example power asymmetry may lead to a take-over by one perspective (sometimes referred to as disciplinary capture or epistemicide) rather than integration.