Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment of Research Paper of Urban Management Journal

The main goal of the current research is to evaluate the quality and quantity of the research paper of Urban Management Journal between years 2008 to 2012. To achieve this goal، eight parameters such as paper content and field، number of authors، scientific grade of the first author، scientific institution of the first author، accepted time of the paper، research method and resources have been analyzed and finally the results have been presented via excel software. The results of the paper indicate that 40% of papers are about urban design basics، 21. 6% of them are about urban management، 17% are about case study analysis in urban design. It also shows that most of papers have 2 authors (39%). It should be mentioned that the most first author of papers are associate professor. 38% of all published papers have been published by Tarbiat Modares University. Master degree theses researches have published more articles in this journal (8 papers) and only 1 paper published based on PhD researches. During these five years only 4 papers have been extracted from research projects. Finally its hold says that، 44% of papers have been published less than 6 months. As a result some guidance has been recommended to improve journal qualitatively.