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Literacy encompasses various aspects, including education, research, schools, and universities. It refers to the ability to read, write, and understand information. Achieving literacy is crucial for individual excellence, family well-being, and national progress. It also fosters meaningful connections between individuals, their families, and society. This study examines the conceptual structure of literacy-related research in the Islamic World Science Citation Database (ISC) and identifies subdomains and important dimensions of the literacy concept.

The research employs bibliometric techniques and co-occurrence analysis of terms. The documents from the ISC Database were extracted. The extracted data over the past 25 years (from 1999 to 2023) consisted of 1137 documents. After extracting keywords, standardization and normalization of concepts were performed. For example, singular and plural words were unified, acronyms were transformed into complete phrases, and so on. Following standardization, 4514 unique keywords remained. To create a co-occurrence map, the software VOSviewer was utilized. Cluster analysis and strategic diagrams were used to visualize the conceptual structure of literacy research.

Ten clusters related to literacy were identified: Information literacy, Digital literacy, Media literacy, Health literacy, Environmental literacy, Literacy assessment tools, Health literacy, Critical thinking, Combination of information literacy and health literacy, Lifestyle and health literacy. Additionally, through content analysis of articles published during the 25-year period, emerging topics in the field of literacy were identified. The results obtained from analyzing data related to literacy indicate that a total of 1137 documents with the word “literacy” in their titles have been published. Concepts such as "health literacy", "information literacy", and "media literacy" were ranked first, second, and third in terms of frequency, respectively. The keyword “health literacy” has the highest frequency, indicating that it is a central concept in literacy-related texts. Other keywords include financial literacy and environmental literacy. The frequency of the health literacy concept is influenced by researchers’ attention to health issues in society, as well as the impact of communicable diseases such as COVID-19 and other conditions like diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, it is essential for individuals to receive education and awareness related to this topic.

The results of this study can contribute to a comprehensive understanding of current research domains and provide guidelines for researchers to initiate new studies. Furthermore, this research showed that health literacy has garnered the most attention and holds significant importance among researchers. Persian studies are aligned with international research in the fields of information literacy, digital literacy, and environmental literacy. However, financial literacy, despite its importance in global research, requires more attention in Persian studies.

This research has examined studies conducted in the field of information security in Iran with a scientometric approach to provide a comprehensive view of the status of this field.

The present applied study, which is a survey-cross-sectional, has been done using co-occurrence analysis and scientometric method. All the scientific papers published in the field of information security between the years 2001-2023 and indexed in the Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) were examined (1,114 articles).

Amin Police University is at the top of science production in the field of information security in Iran with the publication of 92 articles. The journal of Societal Security Studies Scientific with the publication of 35 articles, has the most published articles in the field of information security. Bagheri (with 9 articles), Ebrahimi Atani (with 8 articles) and Tork Ladani (with 7 articles) were recognized as the three top scientists in the field of information security in Iran. The keyword "security" with the highest frequency of repetition was recognized as the most frequent concept. In terms of co-occurrence, the two keywords "security" and "border" were the most frequent. The word co-occurrence map showed the existence of 4 clusters in the field of security, information security, sense of security, sustainable security. "Terrorism" keyword, having the farthest distance from other keywords, was less related to other keywords.

After 2017, the downward trend of scientific publications in the field of information security was observed in Iran. Formation of a forum by specialized associations to exchange opinions and opinions of the authors of works in high quality research publications can be vital in the development of this field. The clusters of national security, stable security and crime were recognized as immature clusters of the scientific map of information security in Iranian articles. Conducting research to develop knowledge in the field of these concepts is recommended.

The purpose of this study was to assess scientific participation of Iranian postgraduate students in the field of knowledge and information science from 2008 to 2014 based on data of the ISC.
This research is a descriptive scientometric study that has studied the scientific documents of knowledge and information science postgraduate students documents indexed in the ISC database (period 1387-1384) by using scientometric indicators.
The findings showed that postgraduate students have published 490 articles in journals indexed in the ISC database during the period of 1387-1394. PhD students had the highest number of scientific production and the dominant pattern among them in doing research was group collaboration. In terms of scientific collaboration, The students of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad were in the first rank and then the students of Shahid Chamran University, Islamic Azad University and the University of Tehran were in the next ranks, respectively. In terms of the number of scientific publications, the students of Shahid Chamran University were in the first place with 97 documents and the students of Ferdowsi University were in the second place with 96 documents. Other findings showed that there is a significant difference between the type of university and the amount of students' scientific productions.
Conclustion: The scientific production of the students is growing over the years however with regards to the number of these students (10.0) this growth is not desirable and significant. This requires more attention of educational groups and policy makers to make the best use of the potential of graduate students.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the status of research in the field of educational administration and identify its cluster based on articles indexed in the citation database of Islamic World Science.

This research is a descriptive-survey method and using Co-Word analysis, content analysis methods have been used in Scientometric researches The research population is all articles indexed in the citation database of Islamic World Science in the period 2004-2016. Ravar Pre Map, Excel, Vosviewer and Net Draw software are used in data analysis.

The review of articles showed that the field of educational administration in Iran consists of ten subject clusters; the terms that have the most links in these clusters are university, student, curriculum, higher education, self-efficacy, learning, attitude, effectiveness, students and teachers. The words of managers, achievement, schools, education and technology are also frequent concepts in research. The average growth rate of the articles is 29.12%, and 76% of the research has been done quantitatively.

The research showed that the topic of articles is only part of the subsection of the field of educational administration and there is not knowledge in this area.

This study aimed to determine the e-readiness of the Islamic World Science Citation Center to implement electronic customer relationship management, and was conducted based on the components of a comprehensive model. The current research is conducted with a descriptive approach. The population included 31 employees of ISC Database. The instruments used in this study, was a five-point Likert scale questionnaire which face and content validity was confirmed by a number of experts and its reliability was measured by Cronbach's alpha 963/0. Also, in order to analyze the data different statistical techniques such as frequency, single -group t-test and Friedman test were used. Based on the findings, ISC in terms of components of organizational, human resources, information technology and communications and external environment has on average higher than medium 3. Therefore, based on the total averages obtained, ISC with an average of 3.20 has an e-readiness higher than average. The results indicate that ISC with high average of e-readiness has the possibility of implementing electronic customer relationship management.

Present study aims to study co- word of 475 agriculture Persian articles of Kermanshah province which were indexed in Islamic Science Citation (ISC) database during 2009 to 2014.
Persent research is a scientometrics study type and it uses co-word network analysis method. It also uses guidelines of the network analysis method such as: centrality rating, interstitial centrality, closeness centrality and density index. For drawing scientific maps of subjects and relations UC-net, Netdrive were used. As well as for clustering subjects, Metrics software, Ravar matrix and SPSS were also used.
Findings:Data analysis showed a rising trend of scientific researches from 2009 to 2014 respectively. In map of the main topics in agricultural articles, subjects such as wheat, peas, barley, agriculture, water, canola, drouthness, genetics and other matters that are visible on the network, have the highest closeness centrality. In maps of the main subjects of Kermanshah province agricultural, articles subjects such as analysis, cultivation, wheat, soil, variety, and statistical methods have been identified. Results of clustering analysis also showed that the core research topics include genetics, wheat, irrigation, seeds and analysis respectively. Among agricultural research works subjects such as floods, agricultural education high school, efficacy, indigenous knowledge, drought