A Distinction on Variety and Impact of Interdisciplinary Research at the Interdisciplinary, Multidisciplinary, Intra-disciplinary and Cross-disciplinary Levels and an Overlook on Inter and Intradepartmental Cooperation in Basic Sciences Fields

The present research was conducted to assess the variety and the research impact of these levels of interdisciplinary and cooperation at inter-departmental and intradepartmental levels.

This research is a descriptive survey. The research population includes the indexed papers in the field of basic science in the Scopus database as well as their authors.  The samples are recruited from among whole articles published in 2012 through purposive and clustered sampling. During data analysis, articles and their authors’ views are investigated and analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistics.

Come to take it as an interdisciplinary study, physics on the level of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary, and chemistry on the level of interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary recorded a better position and ranked first. Furthermore, there is no meaningful difference among interdisciplinary levels as their citations. The most interdepartmental and intradepartmental cooperations, physics and chemistry, ranked first, respectively. Conclustion: Although the trend of three fields of basic science to being interdisciplinary is increasing, the rate of interdisciplinarity and its pattern among fields is different. Despite that, a strong tendency to be interdisciplinary shows the significance of developing interdisciplinary fields in universities, especially in physics and chemistry.