The effects of scientific communication on Knowledge production

In this article the effects of scientific communication on scientific activities among the university members of Iran have been studied.Since the decades after World War II sociologists and philosophers of science have noted to scientific communication and posed it as one of modes of knowledge production. They believed that scientific communication can provide suitable condition and facilities for knowledge flows and through its chanels, the scientist can discuss about the basic hypothesis, problems, axioms, of science and pose new idea.In this study, the effects of scientific communication on scientific activity are considered in the light of functional, structural and conflict theories of communication and theory of complex dynamics of communication. In relation to research method and data collection for this study, the depended variable was scientific activities and the independed variables were types of scientific communication. Also the effects of individual factors on scientific activities and scientific communication are regarded as independent variables. The individual factors were: age, sex, education degree (MS, PhD) occupation grade (instructor, assistant professor, associated professor, professor), and the place of extraction education degree we use of questionnaire for data Collection.Sample size was 250 persons of chemistry and Physic members in Iran universities.The results of this research confirm our hypothesis and indicated that there are meaningful correlation between scientific activity and the rate of scientific communication. Also, there are correlation between scientific activity and the rate of using communicative instruments, the contex variable for example age, sex, education degree, occupation grade, the place of extraction education degree effects on scientific activity and scientific communication.