Citation and co-authorship analysis of Islam and Quranic sciences researchers in " Web of Science" database and mapping the scientific structure of this discipline between the 2012-1993

The aim of this study was citation and co-authorship analysis of Islam and Quran sciences researcher between years of 1993–2012.
The research method is survey. scientometrics rules such as Lutka’s and Bradford rules were used. Data were gathered from WOS database. HistCite™ software was utilized to build histography maps. “ UCINet” and “NetDraw” were used to draw co-authorships maps.
Findings: in general, 4535 records were published in this period. The distribution of the collaboration frequency of the authors follows the Lutka’s law, but distribution of Subject frequency of the core documents was not confirmed by Bradford’s rule. The average growth rate was 6.4%. The scientific structure of this domain on the base on of local citations and also global citations frequency showed that these maps consist of 9 clusters, also co-authorship maps consist of 2 main components.
The results showed that the collaboration between the authors is weak. Citation analysis showed that there is a significance correlation between the number of authors and the number of citations, also the collaboration rate of an author has a significant correlation with the number of documents published by that author.