The paper is devoted to a survey of Antonio Di Nola's, and Antonio Di Nola and Revaz Grigolia's scientific researches of longtime scientific collaboration.

Countries are adjacent or opposite in physical, political, economic, social, cultural, and scientific dimensions. Proximity or distance among countries in terms of the above dimensions can cause or prevent strong inter-country scientific collaboration. The objectives of this research are primarily to identify the dimensions that better explain the intensity of international scientific collaboration, and secondly, to investigate the fluctuations in the intensity of the influence of each dimension over time. To achieve the above-mentioned aims, and based on the integration of proximity literature with the CAGE distance framework, the determining factors of international scientific collaboration were extracted. The population of the research consisted of 167 independent countries in the period of 2002-2017. In this research, the network of co-author relations between countries is considered as an indicator of international scientific collaboration, whose data was collected from the Web of Science database. Also, data on proximity dimensions were collected from various databases (United Nations, International Trade Center, etc. ). This research has an explanatory nature and is based on the analysis of secondary data with a quantitative approach (a gravity model). Model effects were estimated using R package fixest. The application of this model showed that the intensity of international scientific collaboration has a positive relationship with proximity and a negative relationship with the distance between countries in different dimensions. The findings obtained from the comparison of the explanatory power of the proximity dimensions indicated the high explanatory power of social proximity. Nevertheless, the findings of the model improvement showed that the simultaneous presence of political, economic, and social dimensions also have an explanatory power close to that of the social proximity. Examining the fluctuations in the influence of proximity dimensions over time showed a significant increase in the influence of proximity in economic, social, and scientific dimensions, a common language in the cultural dimension, intra-regional collaboration, and collaboration between neighboring countries in the physical dimension. Meanwhile, the influence of geographical distance in the physical dimension, colonial relations in the political dimension, and religious and ethnic commonalities in the cultural dimension have decreased significantly. It is only in the political dimension that the effect of most factors is partial (such as the difference in terms of the degree of realization of the liberal democratic government or the efficiency of the government, and the imposition of sanctions against the other party) and sometimes is fixed (such as common membership in international agreements).

Introduction: Today, scientific collaboration has a rising trend in scientific journals. Therefore, the aim of the current study was to analyze the co-authorship network among authors of the Journal of Health Information Management (JHIM).Methods: The present applied and descriptive study was conducted through social networks analysis approach. In the present study, 568 articles published in the JHIM from 2006 to 2014 were studied. The data were analyzed using UciNet software and SPSS software.Results: The findings revealed that a large amount of the articles were the results of the collaboration of three main authors. In addition, 25% of the authors were the most influential individuals in producing journal papers. These authors mostly collaborated with authors of lower rank. The authors were divided into 3 categories of outstanding, active, and non-active.Conclusion: It can be concluded that co-authorship has had a rising trend in the JHIM. As the results revealed, the number of articles with multiple authors has increased. It seems that the increasing of outstanding authors should be one of the policies of this journal.

Background and Aim: This research studies the effective participation and scientific collaboration in Persian Wikipedia, from 2003-2012.Method: The library method has been used. Also, considering the objectives and the nature of subject, the research method is a descriptive-applied and during its implementation scientometric technique has been used. Excel and SPSS softwares have been used for analysing data. Considering the two communites of active authors and featured (top) articals, data were collected by means of toolserver, showing the recent statistical changes about the wiki authors and articles.Results: Results of ranking the 362 active authors showed that 20% of active authors with 78.90% of the production of added articles and 10% of authors with 86.15% of edits, were identified as hard working partners. The interpretion for the differences between the range of participation of authors, was determined that the characteristic of membership level plays an important role. On the other hand, the study of participation in the 88 featured (top) articles, indicated the editional distribution of articals although influenced by the number of editors, but according to the time difference between Lifetime and half-life of article edition represented the other half of article edition carried out by the hard working partners in the shorter time.Conclusion: According to the study of Scientific collaboration of active Wikipedians, the results of survey the participation in the featured (top) articles indicate the effective cooperation by the important minority of Wikipedians in the Persian Wikipedia depeneds on the quality of the editorial team resulting from access levels.

Purpose: To find how and to what extent Iranian scholars contribute to predatory journals.Methodology: The scientometircs approach is employed. Jefery Beall's List of Predatory journals was adopted.As of January 2016 the number of predatory journals in the list was 910, all of which were studied.Results: 649 Iranian scholars are contributing to 276 predatory journals. Most of them are professors and 35% of all are affiliated to Iran Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. Regarding their field of study, the highest number of researchers were in medical sciences (17%) and the lowest in art. The most predatory journals having Iranian contributors belong to Asia.Conclusion: An upward trend is seen in the contribution of Iranian scholars to predatory journals. Such journals should be identified, listed and introduced to universities and organizations regularly and being emphasized in different ways as an important matter. This way researchers would be informed and less interested to join predatory journals.

Background: Acinetobacter baumannii is one of the most common challenging pathogens in causing serious infections in intensive care units of modern hospital systems around the world and poses a serious threat to public and patient health. This study aims to analyze the network of scientific and empirical collaborations of A. baumannii researchers in the last three decades. Materials & Methods: The present study was performed using the Co-citation analysis technique. All A. baumannii publications indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection for the period 1990-2019 are the statistical population of the study. After an advanced search, 4473 documents were retrieved. A total of 18343 authors contributed to the publication of the retrieved documents. Ravar PreMap 1. 0. 0. 0, NetDraw, and UCINET 6. 528. 0. 0 software were utilized for data analysis. Results: Data analysis showed that the global publication of A. baumannii has risen. "Clinical Infectious Diseases, " was the best journal, and "Seifert, Harald, " the most influential researcher, and "Seifert, Harald * Higgins, Paul G, " were identified as the best co-citation pair. Top researchers in A. baumannii were "Beceiro, " "Alejandro, " "HSU Li Yang, " and "Seifert, Harald, " respectively, based on degree, betweenness and closeness centrality indicators. Conclusion: Analysis of social networks A. baumannii presents an objective and realistic view to experts and planners in Medical Sciences. Also, the structure of A. baumannii's internal relationships and researchers' connections is determined objectively. Finally, researchers get acquainted with journals, scientists and organizations that are proliferated and effective and plan to collaborate with them in the future

The purpose of this study is to investigate and illustrate the model of collaboration among researchers in the field of strategic management in Iran. In this study has tried to draw up and to analyze a collaborative network between researchers in this field of knowledge by reviewing 332 articles that were published by Iranian authors in 3 related journals such as strategic management studies, strategic management thought and strategic management researches during the period from 2012 to 2016. This article has an applied approach and has done by using indicators of scientometrics and social network analysis. In this regard, numbers of scientific productions, authorship patterns and the most prolific authors and institutions as well as the features of collaborative networks and related indicators have been analyzed by using the UCINET network analysis software. The results of this study indicate that 686 researchers from 67 universities and research institutes had involved in writing the articles in this field, which despite of the fact that teamwork of these researchers is mostly around a three-person model, but they tend more to produce science in the form of small groups and the relationship between them is relatively middle.

In today's world, many problems, such as the deadly pandemics that science seeks to solve, are borderless in nature, and overcoming such challenges goes through the international scientific cooperation between scientists and policymakers working across geopolitical boundaries. Over the past few decades, in parallel with traditional diplomacy, a new type of diplomacy has emerged in the field of international relations called science diplomacy (SD), which has important features such as diversity, pervasive multilateralism, involving citizens and civil society, and high impact. In fact, scientific diplomacy is used to describe many types of exchanges in the fields of science, technology and innovation (STI), and participation of countries in the higher educational (HE) programs. Despite the high diversity of the field, it is divided into three main categories, including science in diplomacy, diplomacy for science, and science for diplomacy. Over the past few decades, countries that have been at the forefront of key science and technology have also benefited greatly from the potential of science diplomacy. Past experiences also show that the development of strategic scientific relations and scientific cooperation between countries or even rival blocs can prevent diplomatic failures and reduce the possibility of destructive conflicts and tensions in the global arena. On the other hand, at the present time, the world faces many and varied challenges, in some cases, solving them is beyond the scientific and technical capacities of a country alone. This article discusses the importance, examples, achievements, opportunities/challenges and experiences of some countries and a number of international institutions in the field of science diplomacy and scientific authority.

This study was carried out to investigate the status of Scholarly collaboration among faculty staff in four fields at ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Statistical population included all the common sources (articles, books and research) produced by the faculty staff during the 6 years. The findings were as follows: There is a significant difference between the extent of scientific collaboration in various fields at Ferdowsi university. The three fields of Agriculture, science and Engineering had high record in scientific collaboration in scientific products, but the humanities had the lowest record in respect. 3) The highest record in university belongs to the field and Science and the lowest record belongs to the Humanities.