Scientific Collaboration Networks of the Researchers of the Journal of Health Administration: A Scientometric study, 2013-2017

Reputable academic journals are known as the driving force behind the development of societies. In the meantime, scientific communication is considered as the most important and effective tool for the development of science and knowledge in the information society. The Journal of Health Administration is the second most popular journal in Iran, due to its impact factor in the field of medical sciences; therefore, the present study aimed to explore and illustrate the scientific collaboration networks of its researchers from a scientometric perspective. This study is a scientometrics- applied research. The corpus of the study included 165 articles published in the Journal of Health Administration from 2013 to 2017. USINET software was used to Visualize and analyze the Co-authorship networks, and VOS viewer software was utilized to visualize density Maps. According to the findings, the group work was welcomed by the researchers and the scientific collaboration was high. It was shown that Rezapour, Sayedin, Bagheri Faradneboe, Abolghasem Gorji, and Nouri Motlagh had the highest density of co-authorship in the network. An analysis of the co-authorship network of collaborating universities showed Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, and Shahid Beheshti University as the centers of excellence. The researchers of this journal have a great tendency towards scientific collaboration and account for 94 percent of the journal articles.