Content analysis of the Journal of The Application of chemistry in Environment based on Shannon entropy with environmental assumptions

Subject Areas : The Application of Chemistry in Environment

Younes Karimi Fardinpour ¹ (Department of Mathematics, Ahar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahar, Iran)
Nasser Moslehi Milani ² (Department of Physics, Ahar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahar, Iran)

Received: 2021-08-09 Accepted : 2021-09-09 Published : 2020-01-21

Keywords: Shannon Entropy, Content Analysis, Environmental Assumptions, Environmental Education Components, Chemistry Application,

Abstract :

This article analyzes the content of the Journal of The Application of Chemistry in Environment based on environmental assumptions. The statistical population of this study is all articles published in issues 35 to 38 of the journal. Research data were collected using checklist tools and statistically analyzed using Excel software. In this paper, Shannon entropy content analysis method is used to process data quantitatively and qualitatively. Based on entropy indices, the content of articles has been studied based on 7 main components and 93 sub-components of environmental education. The results of the analysis show that the main components related to humans and the environment with 9 articles (32.1%) and water environmental problems with 7 articles (25%) have the highest frequency. The components of waste and recycling value with 1 article are only 3.6 percent and the components of environmental problems of air, soil, sound and protection of natural resources with 0 articles (zero percent) have the lowest amount. Findings from the abundance of components have shown that the components of environmental education do not have a normal distribution and some components have not been addressed.