Mapping and Analysis of Iranian Conceptual Network of the Structure of Scientometrics

The goal of study is to examine the conceptual network of knowledge structure of Iran Science metrics by produced documents of Iranian researchers inside and outside the country. It has done through co-word analysis and the study of social network.
The society of study includes all of documents of books, theses, research project, and essays in Persian and English through 33 years research in Iran.
The results of data analysis show that the concepts such as “examination of scientific products, science production, the branches of Science metrics, the document analysis, WOS station, the scientific accompaniment, the examination of journals and designing the science structure, the highest measurement of central degree, closeness, internality, the special axis) have been examined among texts. The other result of study is that the conceptual network of Iran Science metrics is less dense. Besides, the analyses show forming 17 subjective branches in this region. Findings show that the concepts of this region approves 32 percentage progress, while there are 270 innovative, conceptual events in the form of 13 conceptual models. More studies show that the concepts such as “examination of scientific products, science production, the document analysis” respectively due to quantities’ approach which is dominant in the country.