CASPIAN JOURNAL OF SCIENTOMETRICS
Year:2017 | Volume:3 | Issue:2 |Papers Count:6

Background and aim: Given the special status of family therapy and constructive role of its scientific production for management and planning in this field and determining research priorities, knowledge of the status of national scientific production indexed in a prestigious international index is required. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the scientific production of Iranian researchers in the field of family therapy in the Scopus database during 1974-2015.Material and methods: In this scientometric study, data were collected through the Advanced Search in Scopus Database. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Google Scholar Metrics was used to determine the journals with high H-index.Findings: The results showed that researchers with organizational affiliation of Islamic Azad universities had the highest scientific production in this field. In addition, no document was submitted to Scopus database in the field of family therapy by Iranian researchers during 1975-1999.Conclusion: The results showed that the trend of scientific production had descended in the field of family therapy in 2015. Thus, the Iranian researchers need more efforts in this field for publishing their scientific production and national Persian journals which publish the articles in this field should record their articles in citations databases such as Scopus, Google Scholar, Ebsco and other relevant ones.

Background and aim: Collaboration with researchers at national and international level is broad form of scientific collaboration that the results of the studies in this area focuses on its importance and advantages. The aim of this study was to determine the co-authorship of researchers in Medical Science Research Centers of Guilan province.Material and methods: This applied study was conducted using descriptive and survey method with a scientometric approach. The authors used the participation coefficient formula to determine the authors' participation. The research data were extracted from the Scopus citation database, and the scientific cooperation was drawn up using UCINET software.Findings: The scientific outputs of the Research Centers of Guilan province were 1140 cases, and the scientific cooperation of all centers were 5171, too. Among them, the Urology Center with 310 scientific productions and 1608 collaborations and Dental Science Research Center with 157 scientific productions and 151 collaborations had the most and lowest levels of cooperation, respectively. This university has had the most co-authorship with the United States, Sweden, Spain and Germany, respectively. The total co-authorship coefficient was also 0.40.Conclusion: The results showed that international cooperation of Guilan Medical Sciences Research Center is relatively at low levels.

Background and aim: Nowadays, research is considered as a basic infrastructure for development of countries. The aim of this study was to determine the contribution of Iranian scientific production in the field of sport sciences in the Middle East, Asia and world.Material and methods: In this scientometric study, data were collected from Scimago and Scopus databases. The research population included all papers indexed in the databases in the field of sport sciences from 1996 to 2015. The extracted data were analyzed using Excel and SPSS.Findings: Results showed from1996 to 2015, Iran indexed 723 scientific degrees in the Scopus, which put Iran at the rank of 32nd, 7th and 3th in the world, Asia and Middle East, respectively. Of all documented papers, there were 6556 articles cited, of which 911 were self-citations. The H index, which indicates the quality of scientific papers, is also 37, which is very low compared to the total number of articles in Iran.Conclusion: In the field of sport sciences, Iran has a relatively good rank in the world, Asia and Middle but in terms of quality (considering the h index), it does not have a good situation. Therefore, it is necessary for evaluation indexes of researchers' papers in universities and research institutes to change from the consideration of quantitative indicators to the qualitative and innovative indicators and the novelty of the research subject, and to financially support the applied and citable research in addition to determining the research priorities.

Background and aim: The journals are the valid method for communication between authors and subject specialists. The aim of this study was to investigate the citations of the articles published in Journal of Studies in Library and Information Science (JSLIS).Material and methods: This survey study investigated the citations of the articles published in JSLIS during 2009-2015 (issues 1-15). Data were analyzed using Excel and descriptive statistics (frequency, percent and mean).Findings: Among 1963 citations of 110 published articles, most citations belonged to journals (52.77%), citation mean for each article (17.84±7.94) and authors’ self-citation (5.09%). The most cited authors of Persian and English are Farideh Osareh and Garfield, respectively. The most cited journals of Persian and English are "Library and Information Science" and "Scientometrics", respectively. The most cited Persian and English books are "From Bibliometrics to Webometrics" and "Introduction to Informetrics", respectively. The half-life mean for Persian resources is 9 years and 6 months while for English ones is 11 years and 2 months.Conclusion: Although published articles in JSLIS have had an acceptable condition from the view point of authorship pattern, considering limited usage of up-to-date resources and due to the high half-life ones, it seems that the affiliated organization needs to take measures for improving the authors' pattern of information–seeking behavior to develop the further research in the field of Library and Information Science.

Background and aim: The aim of this research was to map the co-authorship network structure of the Persian Scientific Research Journals' (Scirj) authors and identify the most important authors, co-authorship pattern and the network integration in Faculty of Management of Tehran University.Material and methods: This scientometric study was conducted with social network analysis (SNA) approach and using SNA indices such as cooperation degree, cooperation index, node size, degree centrality, betweenness centrality, eigenvector centrality, clustring coefficient and so on. Data were analyzed using NodeXL. The related articles from 2011 to 2015 (five-year period) were studied.Findings: Among the studied journals, the highest cooperation index was belonged to Public Administration Quarterly and the highest cooperation degree was related to Business and Management Quarterly and IT Management Quarterly at the same time. The co-authorship pattern of the authors was in the form of two or three authors. In general, based on the the density obtained from the network and its low level, it can be found that there is no much co-authorship relationship and cooperation between the authors of the Persian journals of the faculty of management.Conclusion: There is no much co-authorship relationship and cooperation between the authors of the Persian journals. It seems that studying the co-authorship network of the Persian journals' authors in Faculty of Management of Tehran University can cause to map the future pattern of the scientific progress and identify the most important and key authors of this field for performing the related research.

Background and aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the general patterns of scientific productions, impact factor and open access publishing of international researchers and compare them between males and females.Material and methods: This scientometric and webometric, from a variety of survey methods, investigated the status of male and female scientific productions and the status of open access and non-open access papers in the web in the field of nanosience and nanotechnology (N& N) using comparative approach. Research population consisted of all female and male international researchers in the field of N& N, contributing three or less than three papers from 2007 to 2009.Findings: The results showed that there was no significant difference between female and male international researchers in terms of the mean of the open access papers and impact factor. However, there was significant difference between the frequency of male and female researchers in favor of men.Conclusion: Gender has no effect on open access publishing, visibility, and increasing citation and impact factor.