Exploring the current state and trends in interdisciplinarity research with Dimensions (2014–2025)

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Typical ways of measuring interdisciplinarity, such as citation analysis, often suffer from time delays and data quality issues. While text-based methods offer a more detailed view, they require heavy computing power to process. To avoid these limitations, we use the Dimensions database, which relies on machine learning algorithms to map individual publications into established categories according to the Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification. It consists of 22 divisions and 171 research groups. Interdisciplinary is assesses as a level of interaction between research groups and between research divisions using the Jaccard index. The analysis evaluated 14,535 pairs of research groups for general interaction and 13,789 pairs for inter-divisional interaction, as well as 231 pairs of research divisions. It is also identified the research groups and divisions that act as focal points for substantive collaboration across various disciplinary partners, and triads for research groups with highest level of inner collaboration. The analysis breaks the timeline into three-year periods to carefully track changes over time. It has been determined that the interdisciplinary network is marked by structural stability in terms of the dynamics of power law inequality and dynamic semantic shifts. The proposed technique provides a very fast, scalable way to monitor how research fields merge and evolve without relying on heavy text processing or delayed citation data. interdisciplinarity research interaction Jaccard index Dimensions ANZSRC stickiness index Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. 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