Applying livelihood resilience thinking in the research of rural tourism destinations is a new perspective on sustainable tourism. Despite conducting studies in the field, a comprehensive review and analysis of this entire field is limited and a comprehensive knowledge map has not been done. Therefore, the purpose of the present study is to analyze the knowledge map of livelihood resilience of rural tourism destinations, based on the review of 886 documents including books, articles, etc., also, map analysis in this area is a topic in Iran-related research based on the review of 15 article-type documents taken from the Scopus database. By searching the keyword "livelihood resilience of rural tourism destinations" from 2003 to July 2023 and then by adding the word Iran, this search was carried out from 2016 to July 2023 for research related to Iran, to analyze the science. Analysis of co-citation of previous studies, co-authorship, and co-occurrence of keywords in VOSViewer software. The findings showed that authors such as Yiling, Ying and Jay have published the highest scientific documents in the world and Azadi and Savari in connection with Iran. The co-occurrence analysis of the words, at the global level and also in relation to Iran, for each of them revealed four research clusters in the livelihood resilience studies of rural tourism destinations, whose core keywords include tourism, resilience, livelihood, tourism destination, sustainability, tourism development, ecotourism and sustainable development. This comprehensive and systematic study is a valuable reference for future research.

Although the bibliometric method has been widely used in a large number of sciences, no bibliometric study has been presented on the VOSViewer application as the most prominent software in this area. This study aimed to achieve a bibliometric analysis of research using VOSViewer, emphasizing “, environment”,and “, energy”,areas. Various features, including language, chronological trends, source types, subject categories, countries, source titles, affiliations, authors, and author keywords were systematically investigated. The countries’,cooperation, authors’,collaborations based on citations, the author keywords’,occurrences were constructed, visualized, and assessed through the VOSViewer. The study indicated that the number of VOSViewer-related publications has grown significantly. More than 97% of the total publication were journal articles and conference papers, while all publications in the mentioned fields have been in the form of articles. China was the leading country in publications, followed by Spain, Brazil, Italy, and the UK. As well, the USA and Spain had a large number of cooperation with other countries. Li, J., and Li, H. from China were the most cited authors. “, Energy”, , and “, Environmental Science”,were widely used areas in the most productive journals, as “, Sustainability”,published the most VOSViewer articles, followed by “, International Journal of Environmental Research And Public Health”,and “, Journal of Cleaner Production”, . Among the author keywords, “, sustainability”, , “, sustainable development”, , and “, circular economy”,could be recognized. Based on database comparison, the number of publications using the “, Web of Science”,database is higher than “, Scopus”, . However, the increase of articles published in the “, Scopus”,database is more.

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to determine the status of scientific productions of Jundi-Shapur University of Technology in the Web of Science database. By identifying the research performance of the university and taking necessary measures, the factors and conditions for increasing scientific production and upgrading the university's rank will be provided. The results of this study can be a valuable and efficient tool for management in macro-planning in research and lead to essential planning. Therefore, the state of scientific research productions, as an example of Iran's academic community, has been examined to determine the degree of development of the university based on indicators such as the number of articles indexed by university researchers, their growth trends, identification of fields and active researchers, determination of co-authorship network, determination of organizational network, and numbers of citations. These should be measured and evaluated using scientific metrics.Methodology: This scientific analytical research employs the library method, and VOSViewer software is utilized for data analysis. The statistical population comprises all scientific works affiliated with this university in the Web of Science database from 2010 to 2021, where at least one researcher is affiliated with Jundi-Shapur University of Technology. Data collection involved searching for the term "Dezful" in the "Address" field and filtering the results by selecting Jundi-Shapur University of Technology and the relevant years. Descriptive statistics were conducted using Excel and VOSViewer software, and statistical analysis was performed using the Mann-Whitney U test.Findings: The results of this research show that the number of indexed articles from Jundi-Shapur University of Technology in the Web of Science database is 294 records. The first article was indexed in 2010, and the growth rate of scientific production has been increasing every year on average. Particularly, from 2019 to 2021, there has been an upward trend, with the highest growth rate recorded in 2012 at 600 articles. The average growth of scientific production is 92.51. Participation in scientific productions is at a very good level, with 95.58% of all articles being produced with the collaboration of other researchers. The highest participation rate was in 2021 at 29.54%. The dominant co-authorship pattern among university researchers is the pattern of 3 authors, with a collaboration degree of 0.938 and a collaboration index of 3.15. The high collaboration degree and index indicate the strong participation of researchers and their willingness to write joint articles and engage in scientific collaborations. The most active department in terms of scientific productions is the Department of Basic Sciences, with 117 articles, accounting for 39.53% of the total articles. The department with the lowest activity is the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning. The most productive researcher was R. Nikandish (45 articles in WoS) from the Department of Basic Sciences. The total number of citations is 1859, with an average of 6.32 citations per article. The total number of citations has increased with the rise in the number of scientific productions, with the highest number of citations recorded in 2021 at 802. The most cited researchers were A. Keramat, A. Ghasemi, and N. Tahmasbi, respectively. The highest rate of collaboration in scientific products was observed with Amirkabir, K.N.Toosi, Shahid Chamran Ahvaz, and Sharif Universities, while the countries with the highest collaboration rates were Spain and the United States. Additionally, there was a significant difference between the number of women's and men's scientific productions at Jundi-Shapur University of Technology (P-value = 0.014).Conclusion: Although ups and downs have accompanied the trend of scientific productions of JSUT and their citing rate, it has grown well in recent years. Also, it seems their scientific collaboration with local and international researchers has been effective in increasing the number of articles and their citation rate.