Interdisciplinary Collaboration Analysis of Agricultural Researcher’s : Case Study on Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development

Abstract

Interdisciplinary collaboration analysis of agricultural researchers : case study on Indonesian Agency For Agricultural Research And Development (IAARD). The purpose of this research were (1) to determine Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary collaboration of agricultural researchers, and (2) to identify pattern of interdisciplinarity collaboration using moleculer graph. The research based on 525 IAARD research proposals (RPTP). Co-uthor analysis using bibliometrics approach were employed to measure interdisciplinary collaboration, while and data gathering using questionair have been used to measure publication productivity. Results showed that collaboration among IAARD researchers with different spesialization have been conducted. Collaboration among researchers with different research disciplines occurred in the agricultural researches. Graphic molecular showed that Biotechnology, Horticulture, Plantation, and Food Crops were dominant research disciplines had strong collaboration. The most dominant were belong to Plant Breeding and Agronomy. Both research disciplines have strong relationships. While, Agricultural Socio-Economic pertanian and Agricultural Mechanisation showed low multidisiplinaritas and interdisiplinaritas value. Visualization of molecular graphs in Animal Nutrition (AN) in the field of Livestock research is the most dominant research discipline. Furthermore, which also involves collaboration among Animal Biotechnology (ABI) and Animal Breeding (ABR) researchers. Molecular graph is known that Postharvest Technology (PT) is the research field of Postharvest Technology the most widely held by researchers, followed by Mechanization (MEC), Analytical Methods (AM), and Chemistry (CHE). The diameter of the sphere of molecules known that Soil Science (SS) is the most dominant skills on the Land Resources field, then followed by the Agronomy (AGR), Cartography (CAR), Climatology (CLI), Hydrology (HYD), Microbiology (MIC), Soil Conservation (SC), Geography (GEO), and Plant Breeding (PB)