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        1 - Clustering and mapping the 40-year trend of foresight research
        mohammad yousefi khoraem hakem gasemi farhad se talani Einollah Keshavarz Turk Morteza Mousakhani
        Abstract foresight are considered as an effective tool to reduce the complexity of complex and dynamic systems. Defeating the business environment can be very dangerous for organizations, prospecting provides a structured opportunity to look at the future. Therefore, du More
        Abstract foresight are considered as an effective tool to reduce the complexity of complex and dynamic systems. Defeating the business environment can be very dangerous for organizations, prospecting provides a structured opportunity to look at the future. Therefore, due to the diversity and variety of issues related to futurism, organizations and researchers have conducted numerous research in this field. purpose: Considering the large volume of researches as a challenge for identifying research trends and emerging areas, in this research, using scientific methods, the research process of researchers in the field of foresight analysis And analyzed. Methods: In this research 3883 articles published between 1979 and June 2019 in the field of foresight in the WOS database were analyzed using VOSviewer software. The article's network of referrals, both the occurrence of keywords, the co-authorship of the authors And references to magazines analyzed and identified by leading authors, journals and fields of research. Findings: According to the results, futures, technological forecasting and social change, journal of political economy, were recognized as the most influential magazines in the field of futures studies. Also, Suddendorf, T, Saritas, O, Sarpong, D, and Rohrbeck, r were recognized as authors with the highest share in science production. Among the keywords used in all reviewed articles, the words decision-making, corporate foresight, climate-change have been the highest rank among repetitions between articles in the field of foresight. And economics, regional urban planning, business, as the research area with the highest number of papers. Manuscript profile
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        2 - Scientometrics Study of the Islamic Finance sphere treatises in Iran
        Younes Nobakht
        The purpose of this article is to scientometrics study of treatises in the Islamic finance sphere in Iran with using the content analysis technique. The statistical population of the study consists of 153 thesis published in universities and educational centers of the c More
        The purpose of this article is to scientometrics study of treatises in the Islamic finance sphere in Iran with using the content analysis technique. The statistical population of the study consists of 153 thesis published in universities and educational centers of the country. Research data were collected by using a check list tool and analyzed by Excel software. The findings of the research show that Imam Sadegh University and Qom Seminary each with 35 and Allameh Tabataba'i University with 14 thesis titles produced the highest number of treatise in this field. Of all the treatises; 58 titles (38%) were in the subject of Islamic jurisprudence, Islamic financial law with 29 (19%) and Islamic banking with 19 (12%) titles of theses are in the next rank.  The most research method used in the writing of treatises is a descriptive-analytic research method that has been used with a jurisprudential approach. Also, educational disciplines of Islamic sciences with 36 titles, Jurisprudence and principles of Islamic law with 26 titles and Private law and economics each with 23 titles, have published the highest number of dissertations in this field.   Manuscript profile
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        3 - Thematic Content Analysis and Visualization of Co-Authorship of Scientometrics Journal Articles During 2015-2020s
        Shiba Kianmehr Sedigheh Mohammadesmaeil
        Introduction: The aim was to identify the priorities, co-authorship, thematic distribution of medical sciences, and determine the contribution of countries in the publication of Scientometrics articles, in order to cluster and illustrate the topics of the medical field More
        Introduction: The aim was to identify the priorities, co-authorship, thematic distribution of medical sciences, and determine the contribution of countries in the publication of Scientometrics articles, in order to cluster and illustrate the topics of the medical field according to the frequency of occurrence of words in the titles of the articles. Methods: Content analysis as a conducting qualitative research (based on scientometric indicators, quantitative approach of descriptive statistics, using scientometric software and techniques, has dealt with the systematic review of Iran's medical field in the WOS database, American Scientometrics magazine. The research community has been 1441 articles in 60 published issues (2015-2020). By searching for all types of indexed English documents in the advanced search section, 421 articles were retrieved, then using subject groups, articles related to separate medical fields (382) was examined. Results: In identifying priorities and thematic distribution of articles, 5 thematic areas of citation, bibliometrics, collaboration network and lexical network, author and science have been the most frequent. The analysis of the share of countries also showed that China, America and Spain respectively had the highest amount of scientific production in Scientometrics. Conclusion: The thematic policy of the field of Scientometrics within the country in medicine is somewhat consistent with the thematic policy of this field at the international level. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate and monitor the subject categories that have been less worked to push domestic research in that direction and strengthen the categories that have been worked on as well.   Manuscript profile
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        4 - The intellectual paradigm and scientific mapping of international accounting personal branding researches
        Sajedeh Mirmousa Mahmoud moeinadin Sahnaz Nayebzadeh
        Companies are looking for accounting brands to get useful information supporting their economic decisions in today's turbulent world. The present paper aims to analyze scientific products in the field of personal branding in the field of accounting during 2005 to 2020. More
        Companies are looking for accounting brands to get useful information supporting their economic decisions in today's turbulent world. The present paper aims to analyze scientific products in the field of personal branding in the field of accounting during 2005 to 2020. Following the interpretive paradigm, the present study had been conducted using a systematic review method and search terms defined in the web of science database on 75 articles, with the help of VOS viewer software (software in the field of Scientometrics). The use of Scientometrics techniques, as a new technique in the field of accounting and management, emphasizes the intellectual paradigm governing personal branding in international research for the accounting industry’s managers and highlights the research opportunities and weaknesses in this field. An in-depth analysis of the articles showed that the most research was in the United States. Research also suggests that accountants in order to become a personal brand need to reinforce certain characteristics, such as responsibility, distinction, humility, risk-taking, honesty, and professional knowledge. Manuscript profile
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        5 - Conceptualization of international branding by Econometrics method
        fatemeh fathollahi MOHAMMAD AZIZI maryam lashkarizadeh
         Despite numerous studies on a wide range of topics in the field of branding, international branding isnot sufficiently covered. If there is a comprehensive approach to branding, a brand can be used as a strategictool to improve company performance. While paying at More
         Despite numerous studies on a wide range of topics in the field of branding, international branding isnot sufficiently covered. If there is a comprehensive approach to branding, a brand can be used as a strategictool to improve company performance. While paying attention to this issue at the international level is doublyimportant. However, research in this field, especially in the institutional context of Iran, is scattered and limited.This research, which is done by using Sciencetomeric method, citation analysis method, and evaluation andcontent analysis of documents, intends to review studies in this area; and provide a conceptual and integratedmodel by organizing researches and using content analysis of documents. The statistical population of thisresearch includes all the documents presented in the Scopus database with 207 documents (including articles,books, etc.) until 2020, and this population has been evaluated and visualized by BIBEXCLE and VOSVIEWERsoftware. Based on the content analysis of these documents, research on "International Branding" is divided intofive sections of the nature of branding, drivers, branding antecedent conditions, key elements in internationalbranding, and market-related factors in international branding. According to this research outcomes,suggestions for future researches are provided.  Manuscript profile
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        6 - A review of science production by the faculty of Guilan University in Web of Science and Designing their Scientific map using Hist Site software from 2001 to 2012
        Parastoo Khan amoie
        Purpose: The Present Study aims to review the science produced by the faculty of Guilan university in Web of Science. And  their Scientific map will be illustrated using Hist Site during the twelve years (2001-2012). Methodology: The Present study is of applied typ More
        Purpose: The Present Study aims to review the science produced by the faculty of Guilan university in Web of Science. And  their Scientific map will be illustrated using Hist Site during the twelve years (2001-2012). Methodology: The Present study is of applied type. Using scientometrics` methods and applying Bradford and Lotka principle and citation analysis, the scientific output in web of science is analyzed. The statistical population in this study is selected by census and includes all of the scientific output the faculty of Guilan University has produced from 2001 to 2012. In order to analyze, the data has been collected by searching the web of science and the data has been analyzed in three stages using SPSS, Excle and ISI.exe software and then to plot the scientific history of this university the Hist Site has been applied. Findings: The Present study showed that during the interval of the study the researchers of the university have published 911 indexes at the web of science.  The University of Guilan has had a growth in the world sciences amounting to 22.7 %, on average. Among the researchers, Shirini has had the highest growth. The investigations showed that the faculty of Guilan University had the most collaboration with England, Australia, USA and Germany. The results showed that the researchers of this university had the most co-operations with the authors of Iranian universities including Guilan University of medical sciences and medical university of Tehran. This shows that the researchers of this university have 84 % group cooperation. Lotka principle in terms of frequency distribution and Bradford principle in terms of core journal has conformed publishing the papers of the faculty. The scientific structure of the university is based on the citationat the national and international level using the “Hist Site” software. The results indicate that the science map of this university is constituted from 4 clusters including mathematics and chemistry. Conclusion: The results of this study show that the chemistry researchers of this university have a high share in science production. Although the process of science making in this university has been going upwards during the years of this study this process has not been uniform in all of the fields of this university. Therefore, the management of the university must provide conditions so that the researchers will have high motivation and the required capabilities to get published in the prestigious international journals. Manuscript profile
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        7 - Scientometrics studies the impact of business model innovation on financial performance
        Mehri Hosseini Morteza Mousakhani kamal sakhdari
        Business model innovation is a novel field of research in the literature of organizational entrepreneurship and strategic business renewal that allows acquiring of new competitive benefits by aligning the basic elements of organizations with environmental changes. Howev More
        Business model innovation is a novel field of research in the literature of organizational entrepreneurship and strategic business renewal that allows acquiring of new competitive benefits by aligning the basic elements of organizations with environmental changes. However, the behaviors of business model renewal and research in this area, particularly in Iran are scarce, and sporadic. This research that is conducted by scientometric method and using citation analysis, evaluative technique and documents content analysis aims to sum up the studies on business model innovation and in addition to present an image of existing researches, identify research gaps and provide suggestion for future studies. Accordingly, the statistical population includes all documents provided in Scopus database with 834 data which was assessed and illustrated using bibexcle and Vosviewer software. Moreover, innovation in business models can led to improve the financial performance of businesses. Studying business innovation can be a reflection of potential for cash – in flow (firm income) of the business in progress. Therefore, in this paper, the classification of the research on the impact of innovation performance on financial performance in different industries is discussed. In the following, the business model innovation studies is classified based on documents content analysis and is presented a general framework of existing knowledge and research gaps of this domain that can provide valuable insights for managers and researchers to enhance the business model innovation researches and behaviors to improve the financial performance of business in Iran. Manuscript profile
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        8 - The Scientometric of Social Media Marketing Position in International Islamic Research
        Fatemeh Abolhasani targhi Seyyed Hassan Hataminasab Mohammad Soltanifar
        Purpose: With the advent of the new research in the field of social media marketing (SMM) in recent years, this research was conducted with the purpose of examining the capabilities and functions of SMM in Islamic research and understanding the attitude and philosophy o More
        Purpose: With the advent of the new research in the field of social media marketing (SMM) in recent years, this research was conducted with the purpose of examining the capabilities and functions of SMM in Islamic research and understanding the attitude and philosophy of that at the international level toward evaluating and measuring of quantitatively and qualitatively scientific texts and Providing a clear image of the approach and research trends in the field of SMM.Methodology: The main approach used in this scientometric analyze is based on content analysis technique. Therefore, the online content analysis has used to evaluate the co-citation and co-occurrence of 12153 articles in the Web of Science (WOS) database in between 1972 and 2022. Findings: Based on the obtained results, 68% of SMM research has been done in the last 50 years. Also, the finding showed that a very small (76 documents, less than 1%) of researches was either published in sources or conducted in Islamic countries. The contribution of Iranian researcher has been only one work.Conclusion: Due to the identified gap in research, it is necessary to support the issue of SMM in international research and develop the attempt of Iranian researchers in the international fields. On the other hand, the development and promotion of international scientific publishers with Islamic nature and it is emphasize that these publications pay more attention to SMM. Manuscript profile
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        9 - Drawing a map of the research process in the field of financial literacy indexed in the web-of-science database using bibliometric techniques.
        Seyyed Jamaladdin Tabatabai Mazreno Mahmoud moeinaddin Akram Taftiyan
        The purpose of this research is to analyze and illustrate financial literacy articles, which have been investigated and identified semantic relationships between keywords in the field of financial literacy in the period 1964-2022 (unlimited) in the Web oScience database More
        The purpose of this research is to analyze and illustrate financial literacy articles, which have been investigated and identified semantic relationships between keywords in the field of financial literacy in the period 1964-2022 (unlimited) in the Web oScience database using vocabulary co-occurrence analysis and co-authorship. . Finally, 566 articles were extracted from the researched database and analyzed using Visweaver version 1.6.19 software. The results showed that the field of financial literacy is related to words such as education, knowledge, attitude, credit, performance, financial knowledge and self-efficacy, and the word "financial literacy" is the most frequent word in terms of frequency and has the highest co-occurrence with 186 occurrences. Based on the co-authored results of the countries, it was also determined that America, China and England are among the active countries in the world. Finally, the results of the co-authored map of the authors also showed that Losardi and Annamaria had the most cooperation. This study not only helps to expand the knowledge base about the research topic, but also helps to understand the evolution of financial literacy and related areas. Manuscript profile
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        10 - Resilience of innovative businesses based on scientific maps
        azar barari jirandehi Seyed Mojtaba Sajadi Ali Davari
        Resilience as a structure that implies stability; It is considered as an essential element in entrepreneurship and can be considered as a challenging journey in the entrepreneurial process from the stage of action to realization; therefore, the study and analysis of the More
        Resilience as a structure that implies stability; It is considered as an essential element in entrepreneurship and can be considered as a challenging journey in the entrepreneurial process from the stage of action to realization; therefore, the study and analysis of the literature and experiences of the countries Moafaq is the driving force behind drawing a vision of the resilience of innovative businesses in Iran. For this purpose, the current research is an applied research that was carried out with a systematic review method and using the prism technique through the scientific method (co-occurrence of words). . The co-occurrence analysis of words is a tool to discover hidden patterns and emerging conceptual events. In this regard, all the documents of this field in the Scopus database, including 6257 documents, including articles, books, etc., were reviewed and analyzed in the period of 1985-2021. It has been placed and scientific maps have been illustrated using bibexcle1.0.0.0 and VOSviwer1.6.10.0 software. Based on the analysis of scientific maps and the analysis of documents, research gaps have been identified, and based on this, practical suggestions and solutions for the resilience of innovative businesses have been presented. Manuscript profile
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        11 - Scientometrics and mapping of scientific structure and maps related to Entrepreneurial school based on the development of entrepreneurial attitude
        Narges Ghofrani seyd rasul hoseini Morteza Mosa khani
        Because entrepreneurship education has been a recognized aspect of education that researched for years, the number of studies aiming at revealing the general trends of entrepreneurship education in schools has expanded in the literature. As a result, the current study d More
        Because entrepreneurship education has been a recognized aspect of education that researched for years, the number of studies aiming at revealing the general trends of entrepreneurship education in schools has expanded in the literature. As a result, the current study draws the structure and scientific maps related to the field of entrepreneurial school based on the growth of entrepreneurial attitude with the goal of scientometrics of the studies. Until 2021, the research community comprises all scientific documents indexed in the "Scopus" database in the field. This research used a scientometric technique, lexical co-occurrence, and document content analysis. All publications relating to the research topic are included in the study population. After developing research topics, a systematic search based on linked keywords - entrepreneurial - conducted. The findings of this study revealed that while many researches were conducted independently around the world in the field of entrepreneurship education, structures such as attitude, entrepreneurial intention, and creativity considered by researchers. According to scientometrics, Iran placed fourth among Asian countries in terms of entrepreneurial school interest. The United States, Indonesia, and the United Kingdom conducted the majority of global research. Finally, keyword co-occurrence revealed that entrepreneurship is the most important node. Manuscript profile
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        12 - Usage of Scientometric Method in Higher Education Regional Preparation For the Development of Entrepreneurial University
        Marziyh Bakhtiyari Morteza Moosakhani Seyed Mhdi Alvani Seyed Rasul Hosseini
        On the new perspective of higher education, university is the place in which entrepreneurship skills are developed in order to improve the conversion of graduated to entrepreneurs. By paying attention to conditions and talents of the area and its demands, planning of hi More
        On the new perspective of higher education, university is the place in which entrepreneurship skills are developed in order to improve the conversion of graduated to entrepreneurs. By paying attention to conditions and talents of the area and its demands, planning of higher education regional preparation aims at planning it in proportion with needs of society and in the way that it meets the area’s demand. This survey is a kind of scientometrics, and is done by using of citation analysis method and evaluation technique. Statistical population of this research is documentaries which are presented in data base of Scopus, with number of 758 data for entrepreneurial university and 386 data for preparing plan, and are illustrated and evaluated with Bibexcle and VOSviewer software. The results of this survey show that there are various researches in the world independently in these two areas, but the relationship between them are rarely studied, which could be said that it is a part of innovative survey, and the research gap in this area is so eye-catching. In this area there are no special studies in Iran, so, based on the evaluation and results of this survey, some suggestions are offered for future researches. Manuscript profile
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        13 - Evaluation of Academic Performance of Faculty Members of Kharazmi University, According to their Published Articles in Web of Sciences Database from 2000 to 2010 Based on Scientometric Criteria
        Nostrat Riahi Nia maryam emami
        The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the academic performance of faculty members of Kharazmi University regarding their published articles in WoS, in 2000-2010 based on scientometric criteria. The method used in the present study was scientometrics, More
        The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the academic performance of faculty members of Kharazmi University regarding their published articles in WoS, in 2000-2010 based on scientometric criteria. The method used in the present study was scientometrics, which is a quantitative one. Data was derived from WoS. First, the list of faculty members of different colleges was prepared. Then, their personal and academic demographics, for example: different versions of spelling of their names in English were listed. In order to specify the available information in WoS, the articles of faculty members of Kharazmi University was searched. On the whole, 1699 articles were found. The statistical population was all the faculty members of Kharazmi University which include 303 ones. The results showed that most of the faculty members of Kharazmi University hold assistant professor degree. Literature and humanity colleges, have the most faculty members. The highest rate of scientific production and documentation belonged to the members of chemistry College. There was a positive medium relationship between scientific production of faculty members and their degrees, and also between their scientific production and their received documentation. The highest mean of the H-index belonged to physical education college. As the whole, the result showed that the growth process of scientific documentation of faculty members of Kharazmi University was declining in 2003-2009, but during other years, the rate of increasing of scientific production of the university has been the same respectively. Manuscript profile
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        14 - Text Mining and Drawing a Compiled Social Network of the Journal of Studies of Human Settlements Planning (JSHSP) Studies with a Scientometric Approach
        H. Barangi
        The aim of this study is to review and the meaning, content and statistics analysis and articles status of the Journal of Human Settlements Planning Studies. To achieve this objective, scientometric techniques were used. To collect data and initial analysis, a software More
        The aim of this study is to review and the meaning, content and statistics analysis and articles status of the Journal of Human Settlements Planning Studies. To achieve this objective, scientometric techniques were used. To collect data and initial analysis, a software was designed. The population of this study was all articles of this journal which included 328 articles which were published from 2006 to 2016. Analyses included keywords' communicative clustering, drawing a compiled social network, detecting top researchers with regard to synthetic indicators and indicators related to a variety of centrality, identifying the most cited articles, the best researchers in terms of articles count and referral and top universities in terms of the number of articles published. The results showed that the journal's keywords were located in 5 thematic clusters and rural and tourism development were of the most frequent keywords. The journal's titles were located in 8 thematic clusters which clusters of guide plans' effects, social factors planning and tourism study in the rural areas were of the most important issues in the created clusters. In terms of organizational affiliation, the researchers of Islamic Azad University of Rasht have the most number of articles by participating in writing 93 articles and assigning 30%, and by considering the compiled social network, H-INDEX and the most cited researchers, it can be stated that Teimur Amar is considered as the most influential researcher in the Journal of Human Settlements Planning Studies.   Manuscript profile
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        15 - Evaluation of Research Outputs Focused on the Effectiveness of Advertisements in the Health Field
        Mohammadhosein Riahi Shahnaz Nayebzadeh Abolfazl Davodi Roknabadi
        The experience of different countries around the world during the coronavirus pandemic confirmed the importance of advertising as a tool to change people's attitude and behavior. On this basis and in terms of the exorbitant costs of advertising, the issue of the effecti More
        The experience of different countries around the world during the coronavirus pandemic confirmed the importance of advertising as a tool to change people's attitude and behavior. On this basis and in terms of the exorbitant costs of advertising, the issue of the effectiveness of advertising, especially in the field of health, has attracted the attention of managers and decision makers of countries as well as researchers. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to examine published international research on the effectiveness of advertising in the field of health in order to gain comprehensive insight. The present descriptive-analytical research with a scientometrics approach and using the method of synonym analysis and network analysis examines 438 articles indexed on the Web of Science database between 1970 and 2022. Data analysis using Vos Viewer software shows that the spring of 2021 is the cradle of research conducted on the effectiveness of advertising in the field of health and America. The wide range of keywords chosen by researchers in their articles, which means the comprehensiveness of research in this field, as well as the scientific cooperation of different countries around the world and the reception of first-rate journals in medical sciences, along with top business journals, show the common concern of researchers in an interdisciplinary field and the birth of clusters. It is new science. Acquiring a comprehensive insight in the field of scientific research acts as a beacon for future researchers, especially in the field of health, and spends advertising costs that have a significant contribution to the health budget of countries, along with research costs, brings it closer to effectiveness. Manuscript profile
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        16 - Future studies Mutation of Iranian and American scientific products based a scientometric study: A Brief report
        mousa bamir Mohammadreza Cheshmyazdan
        Objective: The purpose of this study is to investigate the future of the share of Iranian and American scientific products in the total scientific production of the world. Methodology: The present study was performed by scientometric method. The source of the data searc More
        Objective: The purpose of this study is to investigate the future of the share of Iranian and American scientific products in the total scientific production of the world. Methodology: The present study was performed by scientometric method. The source of the data search is Wos, Scopus databases. The period is from 1995 to 2020. Linear and logarithmic linear functions and regression coefficients were used to predict time. Results: Iran's share of world scientific production, in 1995 in WOS and Scopus, respectively, is 00.4% and 00.5%, and in 2020 in both bases is 2.2, the average growth rate is 215%; The US share in Wos and Scopus in 1995 is 35.2% and 30.8%, respectively, and in 2020 in WOS and Scopus is 24.4% and 20.4%, respectively. Conclusion: The share of Iranian and American scientific production is converging over time, the share of the United States is declining and Iran is increasing. And this convergence is due to the sharp decline in US scientific production Than the rapid growth of Iranian production. As this trend continues, the share of the two countries in Scopus in 2058 and WOS in 2061 will be equal. Manuscript profile
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        17 - Co-occurrence analysis of words and visualizing a scientific map of researches about schools
        Niloofar Parsafard Ali Khalkhali Zohreh Shakibaei
        Objective: The purpose of this research was to analysis the co-occurrence of words and visualizing a scientific map of researches about schools.Methodology: This research was applied, descriptive/ analytical, and based on scientometrics technique. The statistical popula More
        Objective: The purpose of this research was to analysis the co-occurrence of words and visualizing a scientific map of researches about schools.Methodology: This research was applied, descriptive/ analytical, and based on scientometrics technique. The statistical population were articles indexed in SID, comprehensive humanities portal, Magiran, and Eric databases, in 9 years (2012-2020), searching for the keyword "school". In one part of the study, the whole community and in another part, Bradford's law were used for sampling. Also, diagrams of co-matrices and scientific maps were prepared by Raver-Matrix and VOSviewer software, respectively.Results: In search of the keyword "school" in the databases, 4390 Persian articles (2012-2020) and 14313 English articles (2012-2020); Also 1712 Persian words, and 3563 English words were found. According to the findings, the highest growth rates of school-centered Persian researches were in 2019 (16.42%) and 2018 (14.33%), and in English in 2012 (20.09%). Most of these articles were in the fields of "psychology" and "education". Also, the highest co-occurrence rate of words with the school belonged to the "critical thinking-mind" in Persian and "students-schools" in English articles.Conclusion: Analysis of "school" developments at the national and international levels has shown that many researches have addressed this concept in recent years. The study of the publication rate of researches; and words co-occurrence with "school", suggests that "school" was implicitly within various fields; that’s necessary to focus on studied in a specialized field instead of scattered. Manuscript profile
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        18 - Study of meanings, definishings and functions of citayions analysis in the field of epistemology
        zahra Chavoshi Najafabadi ahmad shabani
        Nowadays, epistemology presents a new field in research areas. In this science, statistical and measurement methods are used to determine the criterions of the growth and development of science and levels of their expansion and its effect on research societies. This sci More
        Nowadays, epistemology presents a new field in research areas. In this science, statistical and measurement methods are used to determine the criterions of the growth and development of science and levels of their expansion and its effect on research societies. This science appeared in Russia and developed in Eastern European countries especially in Hungary. This method is used for quantitative measurement of science in the national and international levels of governmental and private establishments. Bibliometrics is one of the important methods of epistemology and citation study or analysis is one of the most popular techniques of bibliometrics in which formulas ruling the relation between text and document are studied. Human being relies to credit his work. The path of scientific discovery and thoughts are defined by citations that are rate of referring to former sources like fixed traces. In this article, meanings, definitions and functions of citation analysis from scientists' viewpoint are studied and the relation between aspects is expressed.     Manuscript profile
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        19 - Hirsh index: a model appropriate for calculation of scientific output of Gilan and Golestan Universites of Medical Sciences in Scopus database by the end of August 2011
        Gholamali roudi Mohsen Fallah
        Purpose: Scientific productions indexed in major databases such as Scopus are important criteria for ranking the medical universities.Publication of these scientific productions leads to increase their visibility and citation. The purpose of this article is to investiga More
        Purpose: Scientific productions indexed in major databases such as Scopus are important criteria for ranking the medical universities.Publication of these scientific productions leads to increase their visibility and citation. The purpose of this article is to investigate the publication and citation status of Gilan and Golestan Medical Sciences universities’ by end of August 2011 designating their Hirsh index. Methodology: This study is a descriptive one that was conducted through Science metric Attributable to both the university and all papers published in the Scopus database and were indexed under review. The findings were presented using descriptive statistics. Findings:  Golestan University of Medical Sciences faculty members with the rank of associate professors are13 and they have the maximum number. The faculty members with rank of instructor are 9 and they have the lowest number .The Gilan University faculty members with the highest rank of professor are 5 and have the maximum number. The faculty members with rank of instructor and associate professor have the lowest number. Conclusion: According to Scopus,  the articles of the faculties of Golestan University of Medical Sciences were 502 titles ; and  the articles of Gilan were 262.  The research population consists of 444 faculties of both Universities among them 103 faculties belong to Golestan university and 341 faculties belong to Gilan university. 32 faculties of Golestan university have Hirsh Index (31.6%) and 43 faculties of Gilan University have Hirsh Index (12.61%). These 32 facuties of Golestan have 502 articles, 1080 citations and their H index is 94. But the 43 faculties of Gilan University have 262 articles, 689 citations and their HIdex is 82. So we can conclude that as well as our citation is , our H Index will go up. Golestan University faculties are less, but their H index is higher namely their scientific potential is higher. Manuscript profile
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        20 - Citation analysis and structural mapping of scientific productions of intellectual property rights from 2000 to 2010
        Ali Jalali Dizaji Esmat Momeni Rashid Jafarzadeh
        Purpose: the purpose of this study is to analyze and visualizing of scientific productions in the field of intellectual property rights (IPR) in 2000-2010 at the ISI database. Methodology: this applied research tried to analyze data as scientometric methods. A total num More
        Purpose: the purpose of this study is to analyze and visualizing of scientific productions in the field of intellectual property rights (IPR) in 2000-2010 at the ISI database. Methodology: this applied research tried to analyze data as scientometric methods. A total number of 678 articles published during 2000-2010 were extracting from ISI and saved as text files on personal computer. The Records were analyzed by Microsoft  Excel, ISI.exe and  HisitCite. Findings: the average manual growth rate during the period for publication of intellectual property rights (IPR) in the ISI is 8/7 percent. The scientific publication of IPR was produced with the participation of 49 countries and in 7 languages. The United State ranked the first with 219 records and 95/5% of the articles were in English. 512 academic and scientific institutions were collaborated in the production of this document. The University of Colorado was known as the most active institution with 12 articles.  The subject of the main scientific cluster of IPR is about intellectual property rights in the international trade and economic. Conclusion: 59% of the total production have published by the first five countries. Authors' collaboration coefficient (cc) is 0.37 that implies a low co-authorship in this field. The main cluster of IPR shows the intellectual property rights has a special place in the international economics Manuscript profile
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        21 - Investigating co-authorship rate of Iranian researchers in Psychology field in Islamic World Science Citation Database between 2007-2011
        hajar salehi fariba nazari
        Purpose: This research aims to study the extent of co-authorship of Iranian researchers in Psychology field in Islamic World Science Citation Database during 2007-2010. Methodology: Descriptive-analytical method and scientometric tools are applied. Islamic World Scienc More
        Purpose: This research aims to study the extent of co-authorship of Iranian researchers in Psychology field in Islamic World Science Citation Database during 2007-2010. Methodology: Descriptive-analytical method and scientometric tools are applied. Islamic World Science Citation Database is the research tool, and Excel software is applied to input and compute the data. The research population is all the articles indexed in Psychology field in Islamic World Science Citation Database during 2007-2011. Collaborative Index, Degree of Collaboration, and Co-authorship Coefficient for Psychology field were calculated. Findings: The documents with four authors, with 0.32 growth rate, have the most growth in comparison to documents with other co-authorship patterns. Co-authorship Coefficient of authors in the given period is 0.54 and the largest co-authorship Coefficient is related to 2010 with 0.59. The average of Degree of Collaboration in the given period is 0.83. Conclusion: It can be concluded that psychology researchers tend to write articles with the cooperation of other authors, so as the number of psychology articles increases, the number of articles having just one author decreases. Manuscript profile
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        22 - Investigation of the research output of faculty members of Tehran pharmacy colleges according to h-index factor
        zohreh mirhoseini marjan jalili baleh
        The aim of the present research is the investigation of the research output of faculty members of Tehran pharmacy colleges according to h-index factor which is a new method of scientometrics. This research has been achieved with evaluation measurement research method an More
        The aim of the present research is the investigation of the research output of faculty members of Tehran pharmacy colleges according to h-index factor which is a new method of scientometrics. This research has been achieved with evaluation measurement research method and the needed information collected by checklist. Hypothesis has been evaluated statistically by Pearson’s correlation test. Number of research society was 107 faculty members of 3 Tehran pharmacy colleges. In this study, h-index was calculated from the articles and citation of the research society indexed in Scopus and Web of Science. Research findings indicate that highest article's number belong to a member from Tehran University of Medical Sciences with 193 articles, in this university most distribution of articles was between 10 to 19 articles (%38.46), while the most article's number in Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences was 57 and in Azad University was 26 articles. In these two universities the most distribution of articles was between 1 to 9 articles. In addition, the highest citation number in Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and Azad University were 6793, 442, 187, respectively. In all 3 universities the highest citation number was related to "Toxicology and Pharmacology" Department. The highest h-index between the assistant professors of Tehran University of Medical Sciences was 4 (%26.08), between associate professors was 2 (%27.27) and between professors of this university was 6 (%30). The highest h-index in Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences between assistant professors was 2 (%33.33), between associate professors was 2 (%23.07) and for professors was 6 (%22.22). The highest h-index in Azad University was 2 (%45.45). Nevertheless, the highest h-index in research society was 20 related to a professor from Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Testing hypotheses of this research show that there is a significant relation between h-index and article numbers and also between h-index and citation numbers.     Manuscript profile
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        23 - Growth Trend and Citation Analysis of the Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman’s Publications in the Web of Science
        Mohammad Bagher Negahban
        Purpose: This study investigatesیthe growth and development trend of scientific productions (articles) by Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman’s faculty members in the citation database of Web of Sciences. The main purpose of this study was to identify and determin More
        Purpose: This study investigatesیthe growth and development trend of scientific productions (articles) by Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman’s faculty members in the citation database of Web of Sciences. The main purpose of this study was to identify and determine the scientific productions of the Shahid Bahonar University’s faculty members.  Methodology: The present study applied scientometric research method to conduct the study. The data were collected form The WoS database and analyzed by EXCEL and SPSS soft wares. The statistical analysis was based on descriptive statistics. First, all records produced by the Shahid Bahonar University’s faculty members during 2000-2011 and indexed by the WoS database were retreived. Then, analytical report for all indices were obtained and was entered into SPSS. For the citation analysis of the records, a citation report was produced for each faculty member and then the citation were saved in personal computer with full text format and finally analized by SPSS. Findings: The average annual growth rate of scientific productions of Shahid Bahonar University during the period of 2000-2011 showed an acceptable growth, especially with its ascending move since 2004, which could significantly improve the ranking of Shahid Bahonar University among other universities of the country. Data analysis showed that the Department of Sciences ranked first as the most productive department; most of documents and productions of which were done in chemistry faculty.  Considering the most prominent researchers of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman in terms of number of documents, number of references and average reference for each document, we could say that fields of chemistry, mechanics and statistics were the scientific production engines of this university. Conclusion: The results of this study showed that Shahid Bahonar University had had 1356 records during the examined years. Also, the average growth rate of this university was 33.6%. Considering the produced documents and received citations, Mohammadali Taher, Iran Sheykh Shoaei and Ahmad Sheykhi occupied the top most places based on productivity measure. Nearly all the documents were published in English. Considering the recruitment of new faculty members and the speed of the Shahid Bahonar University’s scientific production growth, one can say that this university will have a significant growth in terms of number of records in coming Manuscript profile
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        24 - A study of scientific production in the field of Social psychology in Web of Science (1990-2009): Mapping the historical Structure
        fahimeh abasi Vahide Aslaninia Mohammad Hossein Biglu
        Objective: Social psychology is a branch of psychology and sociology that studies the scientific aspect of various social phenomena as well as the related aspects of social life. This study aims to determine the relationship of a person in a group and how a person's beh More
        Objective: Social psychology is a branch of psychology and sociology that studies the scientific aspect of various social phenomena as well as the related aspects of social life. This study aims to determine the relationship of a person in a group and how a person's behavior, thoughts, and feelings are influenced by group and vice versa. Methodology: With understanding the standing out of scientific activities in the field of social psychology, we can set up a comprehensive representation of scientists and researchers in the field and to identify the strengths and weaknesses of previous investigations. A descriptive-analytical method by using scientometrics indicators was recruited to analyze the productive activity of countries in the field of social psychology during a period of 20 years (1990-2009). We used the trial version of Hist-Cite software to map the historical Structure of Scientific Output in the field of social psychology through the period of study. Findings:  Analysis of data showed that there has been a gently rise in producing scientific production in the field through the period of study. More than 97% of publications were in English. USA, England and Canada were the most prolific countries in the subject area. The University of Michigan، Texas و Calif. Los Angeles were the most productive universities. Conclusion: Mapping the historical Structure of scientific publications in the subject area indicated that there have been formed 3 major clusters in Local Citation Scale (LCS) and 4 major clusters in Global Citation Scale (LCS). Manuscript profile
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        25 - Analyzing thematic clusters and drawing a scientific map of big data research and online education of Scopus scientific database
        Mahdi AlirezaNejad Soheil Dadfar
        The development of big data in recent years has led to the production of significant science in this regard in reliable international reference databases. The aim of the current study is to analyze thematic clusters and draw a scientific map of published research to ide More
        The development of big data in recent years has led to the production of significant science in this regard in reliable international reference databases. The aim of the current study is to analyze thematic clusters and draw a scientific map of published research to identify the current state of research in the field of big data and online education in Scopus. The current research was a quantitative and applied study and scientific methods including co-lexical analysis and network analysis were used. The research community was all the documents that were published in the Scopus citation database in the field of big data and online education, which were reviewed and analyzed. Vosviewer software was used to analyze the data. Scientometric findings showed that until November 25, 2023, the countries of China (700 documents), the United States of America (240 documents) and India (110 documents) respectively had the most scientific documents in the field of big data and education in the Scopus database. Iran was at the lowest level of this ranking with only 8 published documents. Also, the results showed that the clusters of big data, education, online education, teaching, learning systems, artificial intelligence, data mining, machine learning were among the most important clusters in the field of big data and education. Finally, considering that Iran had the fewest published documents in the field of big data and education, it is necessary for researchers to determine research needs and, accordingly, contribute to the development of knowledge in the field of big data and education. Manuscript profile