Evaluation Methods And Funding Countermeasures Of "Interdisciplinary Research"

"Interdisciplinary research"is an innovative research integrating two or two more disciplinarys of knowledge and methods. As a widespread mantra for research, interdisciplinary research has been highlighted its unique advantages at solution of complicated problems and producing new knowledge. Funding agencies and academic institutions also hope to facilitate the development of interdisciplinary research through the effective means of allocating resources, and the current evaluation method based on peer review and the resource allocation policy relied on single disciplinary has been barriers hindering interdisciplinary research researchers from obtaining research funding and promoting to a higher position. How to improve the evaluation methods of interdisciplinary research and establish a fair and comprehensive interdisciplinary research funding system is an important issues to eliminate the bottleneck restricting the development of interdisciplinary research. The current situation domestic and foreign of theories and methods of interdisciplinary research evaluation did not formulated an evaluating and funding system fitting scientific research institutions of China. Therefore, further work on interdisciplinary research evaluation and funding policy research to promote national interdisciplinary research and innovation of science and technology is provided with a high sense of theoretical and practical.The paper proposes the definition of interdisciplinary research and the characteristics of successful interdisciplinary research by analyzing the properties, connotation and features of interdisciplinary research. Then, this paper compare with properties of interdisciplinary research by summarizing current research assessment system mainly made up of peer review and bibliometric, sum up the four evaluation barriers of interdisciplinary research and form interdisciplinary research evaluation principles and the path to improve the peer review and the way to adjust the bibliometric approach aiming at barriers. Next, given three kinds of objection to evaluate, interdisciplinary research centers, interdisciplinary research projects and interdisciplinary researchers, the raise three evaluation methods of social network analysis,"exchange and reply"method and"joint appointment"employment system from the view of empirical demonstration. Finally, learns from experience of foreign funding organizations NSF, NIH and ARC in terms of funding interdisciplinary research, compares with the practice of which main funding agencies NSFC and the Social Sciences Division of Ministry of Education funded interdisciplinary research, puts forward three countermeasures improving the system of interdisciplinary research funding, namely establish an independent interdisciplinary research coordination committee to handle with interdisciplinary financial assistance between the various disciplines, set up interdisciplinary research archives to manage and track the achievement, build up broader interdisciplinary research support system including interdisciplinary specialty disciplines, professional journals and the highest award of interdisciplinary research.This paper attempts to answer what is the interdisciplinary research and how to evaluate and support interdisciplinary research form the two views of domestic and foreign interdisciplinarity theory and practice of funding interdisciplinary research. The evaluation of interdisciplinary research is a new hot spot which domestic and international science policy and management concern, and because of the complexity of interdisciplinary research, the topic is also a difficult problem. This article is an initial exploration from the perspective of theoretical and empirical demonstration in terms of this topic with a hope to provide consults to decision-making of relevant researchers and research managers.