Publication pattern of 50 numbers of quarterly journal of educational innovations: Citation analysis and co-authorship of the papers published during 2003 -2015)No. 5 up to 55(

This study dealt with citation analysis and co-authorship of the published papers in the quarterly journal of educational innovations during 2003-2015 to investigate their current status of scientific relation and drawing the scientific structure of this domain. The research method was citation analysis and to analyze the data, Excel software, UC net and NetDrive has been used. The results showed that in this time interval )2003 -2015(, 365 papers with average 7 papers in each number have been published. 35 papers were in English and 330 ones were in Persian. Total number of citations was 11527, and the average citations were 41. 92% in each number of the journal and 16. 40% in each paper. The books with 39. 43% of the citations were in the first place and journals with 36. 47% were in the second place. Reference to the English sources was more than Persian ones. The 17. 80% of the papers were developed by the journal’s editorial board. Out of the 788 authors, 30. 85% were women and 69. 15 were men. 51. 55 of the authors just published one paper that is near to the 60% prediction of Lotka’s law. 33. 69% of the papers were single-authored and 66. 30% of them were joint papers. The affiliation of the authors with state Universities and University of Tehran with 9. 68% was in the first place. Hamidrezā Oreizi was the most active author with 16 papers. The net density was 0/0057 and the co-author net was weak in this journal. Ali Akbar Seif’s book on »educational psychology« was the most cited book with citation frequency of 1. 72% and the quarterly journal of educational innovations with 25. 05% was the most cited journal. Enhancing the co-author net and developing criteria to improve the citation behavior of the authors have been suggested.