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 The pillars of national security based on Iran’s 20-Year Vision Document may be achieved in the dimensions of social, economic, political, cultural, military, defense, and environmental security. The present article aims to identify and introduce the top research in each area by monitoring the scientific output in this field in the country. 

 The present research is an applied research with a scientometric approach conducted cross-sectionally between 2001 and 2023. A total of 6,554 indexed articles on national security in the ISC database were quantitatively reviewed to identify the top scientific outputs and important research topics in national security in Iran. Scientific maps were drawn using bibliometrics in R and VOSviewer software.    

 The trend of scientific production was upward, and the highest number of publications in all fields was between 2013 and 2018. The analysis of the statistical population showed that most of the research was conducted on social security, accounting for 42.05% of all national security outputs. Economic security with 19.49% and political security with 14.82% respectively ranked second and third. The journal “Studies of Social Security” was recognized as the leading journal with 460 articles in the field of social security and 26 articles in the field of cultural security. The scientific monthly “Economic Security” in the field of economic security; “Strategic Studies” in the fields of military security, political security, and environmental security published the most articles, and the journal “Defense Policy” was recognized as the superior in the field of defense security. The research journal “Law and Order Security” had the highest impact factor (1.96) and the journal “Environmental Science and Technology” had the highest accumulative citation (467).

 Geopolitical issues and the orientation of Iran’s foreign policy in the international system, legitimizing the system, cyber threats, and governance of media and social networks require further research to achieve scientific maturity in the field of national security.

The deed of 20-year perspective strategies is in the climax of the purposes of the Planning System of Iran whose achievement in 1404/2025 depends on expanding development from different aspects to achieve a territorial land; among these, borderline-coastal towns of Guilan Province have a specific and special significance due to their geographical location and closeness to Caspian Sea. According to the role of human development in borderline cities, the study is to measure human development indexes and their components for borderline-coastal towns of Guilan Province. This was an applied study and the method was descriptive-survey. Statistical population include borderline-coastal towns of Guilan Province involving 8 coastal towns and one borderline town which were studied based on their effective variables related to human development index; and the study measured and assessed three indexes of education, life expectancy and GDP per capita. Data collection tool for literature review and theoretical literature sections were library and internet resources. Iran’s Statistics Center was the official source of Information in this regard, too. The results showed that all borderline-coastal towns of Guilan Province have an average and normal condition from development perspective in 1390 (the values are between 0.5 and 0.8). These statistics showed a similar condition for all borderline-coastal towns of Guilan Province from development perspective and there are no basic differences from development criteria perspective. Based on results of Human Development Index (HDI), we came to this conclusion that we can increase the level of development and plan for removing deprivations by identifying less developed areas and their capacities, advantages and disadvantages.