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Engaging in research and familiarizing oneself with the research field are integral aspects of student development programs, particularly at postgraduate level. This study aims to analyze and map the co-authorship network within publications produced by the student research committee of Iran's Ministry of Health and Medical Education.

This is an applied research that utilizes scientometric techniques. The research community includes 2178 documents with the organizational affiliation of the Student Research Committee of Medical Sciences Universities of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, which were retrieved from the Scopus database from 1985 to 2023. After data cleaning in Excel software and data homogenization, the data were transferred to BibExcel for frequency analysis. Subsequently, UCINET software was employed to calculate the correlation and centrality matrix. Furthermore, VosViewer software was used to visualize the data through network maps.

An analysis of student research committee publications revealed 900 co-authored articles. Salari and Mohammadi exhibited the highest co-authorship frequency, with 10 publications. The findings showed that 38 countries participated in the scientific productions of the student research committee. America and England have cooperated the most with authors of student research committees with 58 and 14 scientific publications, respectively. Yousefi, Nouri, and Mohammadi emerged as the most prolific research committee authors. Sadeghi got the highest score in terms of centrality index and Karimi got the highest score in terms of closeness and intermediateness index. Furthermore, the five-author co-authorship pattern represented the most prevalent format (19.04%), with the single-author format accounting for less than 1% of publications.

In studies by student research committee, the five-author co-authorship pattern has been the dominant pattern among the scientific documents of the student research committees, which indicates proper scientific cooperation among students.

Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are the most reliable sources of evidence in evidence-based practice. Analyzing the scientometric and authorship features of these articles at the national level can provide useful information for various decision-makers. This study aimed to investigate the scientometric and authorship characteristics of Iran’s systematic review and meta-analysis articles indexed in Scopus.

The current research was conducted using a scientometric approach. The research population includes 9579 systematic review and meta-analysis articles published between 2011 and 2021, and Iran is the affiliated country of at least one of the authors. The quantitative and qualitative growth process of articles as well as the authorship characteristics are examined in this research, among other things.

Review of 9579 articles indicate an increasing trend in the publication, with the highest number of articles (2565) being published in 2021. The thematic analysis shows that the majority of articles are related to the field of Medicine, with 7112 articles, followed by Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology with 1433 articles. The highest H-index, 68, refers to the year 2018 and the highest percentage of articles included in the Hirsch Index horizon refers to the year 2011. The highest average number of citations per article is 146.44, observed in 2012, while the lowest is 4.62, reported in 2021. The highest average number of citations in relation to the age of the articles was 9735/34 in 2020, whereas the minimum was 279 in 2011.Calculating the percentage of articles above the H-index horizontal line based on total articles of each year, along with the average citation per article, shows a decreasing trend with slight fluctuations. On the other hand, there is a growing trend when considering the number of citations in relation to the age of the articles. The lowest average author count (5.48) is linked to 2011, whereas the highest count (12) is related to 2012. The first and the corresponding author of more than 91% of the articles was from Iran. In conducting the examined articles, researchers from the United States collaborated the most (12.05%) with researchers from Iran. University of Tehran, as the authors' affiliated organization, has contributed the most to the examined articles (27.81%). The Iranian Journal of Public Health has published the most of the examined articles (36/1%).

The articles under investigation show an increasing trend of growth, yet further research is needed to assess their qualitative trend. Given the rising significance of evidence-based practice, the stakeholders need to ensure the maintenance of the quantitative growth trend and the enhancement of the qualitative growth of these articles.

 Scientific articles are the tools which are being considered as the output of organizations. The current research investigates the performance and evaluation of scientific articles published in Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research (ACECR) based on two citation databases WOS and Scopus between 2001 and 2023.

 The study is descriptive-analytical one in which Scientometrics analysis was applied. The research community in this article were scientific articles that Acecr researchers indexed until the time of conducting the research in WOS and Scopus databases. Excel, Bibexcel, and VOSviewer software were used for data analysis.

 The findings illustrated that the number of articles on Acecr in Web of Science is equal to 5272 and in the Scopus database is equal to 9091. The number of articles on Acecr is increasing in both databases. The average number of citations for each document of Acecr articles in the Web of Science database is 16.49 and, in the Scopus, database is 9.56. Also, there is a correlation between the bibliometric indices of ACECR scientific articles in two databases with a value of 0.0935.

 Quantitative and qualitative indicators of Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research articles in WOS and Scopus databases have a positive correlation with each other.

Librarians, as practitioners of Library and Information Science (LIS), by playing various roles, can contribute to the promotion of research and expansion of human knowledge. The aim of the present study was to investigate librarians' scientific publications indexed in the Scopus database between 2016 and 2020 using the scientometric approach.

The present study, which was conducted using a scientometric approach, is descriptive in terms of data collection and applied in terms of the objective. The research population was all articles indexed in the Scopus database in 2016-2020 in which the word "librarian" is included in at least one of the authors’ organizational affiliations. The number of these articles amounted to 2207 after review and screening by the researchers.

In general, librarians accounted for 1.5% of the worldwide scientific production in the field of LIS. Librarians were the first, second or third author in more than 60% of the articles analyzed. Totally, 61% of the articles by librarians were published in non-LIS disciplines such as biological sciences, medicine, and computer science, and the chi-square test showed that the participation of librarians was significantly higher in non-LIS disciplines than in LIS disciplines (p<0.001). A closer examination of the articles indexed by librarians in the Scopus database in the LIS subject area showed that scientometrics, library services, databases, archives, and knowledge management were the most interesting topics for librarians with a frequency of 134, 131, 84, 75 and 59 articles, respectively.

Librarians as research assistants have made an important contribution to the writing of articles from non-LIS fields in recent years. Moreover, scientometrics has been one of the main topics of their research in the LIS field.

Sharing resources and facilities, leveraging each other's experiences, and enabling interdisciplinary research are the benefits of co-authorship. The aim of this study was to investigate the co-authorship status of the scientific productions by Afghan researchers to plan the expansion of collaboration and employment of these researchers in migration destination countries, especially Iran.

This quantitative study examined 2732 articles indexed in Scopus with at least one Afghan author from the beginning of indexing in Scopus to September 2021. Statistical methods and analysis of the co-authorship network were used to analyze the data, via Python 3 language and VOSviewer 1.6.17 and Gephi 0.9.2.

The most scientific outputs of Afghan researchers are devoted to the writings of the medical field with 40.41%. The next scientific fields with a large difference are social sciences (15.67%), biological sciences (11.16%), and engineering (10.94%), respectively. The co-authorship network of Afghan researchers and their colleagues consisted of 13,379 nodes (researchers) and 2,511,879 weighted edges (co-author relationships). Afghan researchers collaborated most frequently with researchers from the United States. Iran, despite its geographic and cultural proximity, ranks fourth among its colleagues. America is followed by England and India.

Co-authorship varies among researchers in different scientific fields. The median number of authors of each article in dentistry, biochemistry and other majors close to medicine and basic sciences was about three times that of theoretical majors such as social sciences, arts and humanities.

The present research has investigated the presence and activity of Iranian authors of cardiac surgery field in Scopus and Web of Science databases. The purpose of this research is to identify the relationship between altmetrics scores in the ResearchGate social network and scientific metrics of Scopus and Web of Science databases.

This research is an applied research that has been carried out bysurvey-descriptive method. Scientific method has been used in this research. The research period is from 2010 to 2019. The number of these authors was 147. Due to the small number of the statistical population, sampling was not used and all authors were reviewed. Data collection tools were observation and file extraction of data obtained from Scopus database. In order to analyze the data, Pearson correlation tests and multiple linear regressions were used in Excel and SPSS software.

The results showed that in a period of ten years (2010-2019), 485 documents in the field of heart surgery were indexed by Iranian authors in the Scopus database. The studied documents are mostly articles. The language of most documents is English. A survey of Iranian authors of cardiac surgery in the Scopus database identified 147 people. Among the most prolific authors in the field of cardiac surgery, Fereydoun Sabzi with 26 articles has the highest number of indexed articles ever. The highest score of h-index in Scopus database (29) is related to Heidar Ali Talebi. The highest score of h-index in web of Science (31) is related to Mohammad Mahdavi, and the highest score of RG index in ResearchGate (47.79) is related to Alireza Abdi.

In this study, it was found that there is a significant relationship between citation indices, readers, followers, publications, and RJ score in ResearchGate social network with the indexes of publications, citations, h-index and co-authorship in Scopus. On the other hand, there is no significant relationship between the interest score and followers in ResearchGate with the publishing indexes, citations, h-index and co-authorship in Scopus. In this research, it was found that the significance value of the variables of readers, followers, followers, and RJ score in ResearchGate is greater than 0.05. Therefore, these variables are ineffective in changing the number of citations received in Scopus.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory disease with rapid transmission that affects most countries. The aim of the present study was to analyze the citations of COVID-19 research in the Scopus citation database from 2019 to 2021.

This applies study was conducted with a scientometric approach. The research population was 4269 research articles published in the field of COVID-19 during 2019-2021. VOSviewer, UCINET, and Excel were used to map and analyze the citation network.

In the Scopus database, the most frequently cited articles at COVID-19 related to China. The United States had the largest number of articles in this field assigned to COVID-19 with 467 articles. Li Y, Li X, and Wang J scored the highest in rank centrality, closeness index, and intermediate index, respectively. Iranian researchers have had the most international collaboration with the countries of North America, Europe, and China.

The countries of America and China have contributed the most in this field in terms of both article production and citations. Due to the co-authorship with these countries, Iran is also in the first and best cluster in the world.

Quality and quantity assessment of scientific outputs is one of the important indicators of the national development of countries. The aim of this study was to determine the status of Iranian scientific outputs in the thematic area of the Caspian Sea in the Scopus database during 1970-2020.

This applied descriptive study was conducted using the scientometric methods. The study population was all scientific documents related to the Caspian Sea, which were indexed by Iranian researchers in Scopus using the keyword of “Caspian Sea” for the geographical area of Iran during 1970-2020. Data were analyzed using data analysis tools in Scopus, SPSS 21, and Excel. BibExcel and VOSviewer were applied to draw the scientific maps.

The results showed that 920 documents from Iranian researchers on the thematic area of the Caspian Sea were indexed in Scopus. The highest number of documents was indexed in 2013. Fazli with 34 articles was the most prolific author, the Tehran University with 170 articles was the most productive scientific center, and the Iranian Journal of Fisheries Sciences was the top journal with 67 articles. Iran had the most international collaboration with the United States, Malaysia, and Germany. The main research topics in the articles related to the Caspian Sea were “Agriculture and Biological Sciences” and “Environmental Sciences”. The highest occurrence keywords were Caspian Sea, Iran, Article, Nonhuman, Fish, Environmental Monitoring, and Controlled study. The study of the level of scientific participation of researchers showed that 93% of the studied scientific documents were compiled with the participation of 2 to 9 authors and with degree of collaboration of 0.93, collaboration index of 4.18, and collaboration coefficient of 0.66.

Although Iran has had good growth in terms of the number of published scientific documents in the thematic area of the Caspian Sea, Iran does not have very favorable conditions in terms of international participation and quality of articles.

Scientometrics is a scientific field that can guide readers, academic institutions, and researchers in objective evaluation of the path that human knowledge takes. In recent years, new indicators have been used to rank and validate journals. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between new and common scientometric indicators of journals in the field of emergency medicine and trauma.

In the present descriptive-analytical study, journals specialized in emergency medicine were identified in Scopus and ISI databases. Our target indicators were related to data of journal publications published in 2019, which were collected using online databases of Clarivate Analytics, SCOPUS, PubMed, and SJR. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS software version 19 and R software.

In the present study, 57 journals in the field of trauma and emergency medicine were included. Among the journals indexed in Scopus, 24 were also indexed in ISI. In terms of article rankings in the Scopus database, Annals of Emergency Medicine, a Journal based in America and published by Elsevier, ranked first. The average CiteScore of journals specialized in trauma and emergency medicine was 2.16 ± 1.7. Their mean SJR was 0.53 ± 0.34. Mean h-index of these journals was 34.55 ± 28.27 and their mean impact factor (IF) was 1.88 ± 1.08. The average Eigenfactor Score was 0.0047 ± 0.00501. Eigenfactor Score was more correlated with IF and number of published articles compared to CiteScore and SJR.

Our findings may help authors figure out which indicators are most relevant to Total Cites or IF. Authors can use this information to make a decision regarding choosing the best bibliographic index to rank the target journals in the field of emergency medicine before submitting articles.

Gastrointestinal symptoms along with respiratory symptoms recorded in patients with Covid-19 indicate the role of microbiota in this disease. The purpose of this scientometric study was to assess the articles published on the relationship between microbiota and Covid-19 in order to control the pandemic by reaching new strategies.

Relevant articles were searched in Scopus database by titles and abstracts, published from January 1 to October 15, 2020. Data analysis was performed by analysis tools available in Scopus database, SPSS and VOSviewer network analysis version 1.6.15.

Overall, 87 papers were included. The most productive time was July in which 20 articles were published. The top subject area was medicine (n=66 papers). The first productive country was the USA (24.14%), and the top institute was the Chinese University of Hong Kong (8.54%) in China. The top source was the Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology journal that published 8.05% of the articles. Total number of citations were 401 and their H‑index was 9. Top author and top country in the co-authorship network assessment or international collaboration were from China and the USA, respectively. From the Middle East, six articles were published on microbiota and Covid-19 by Iran, Jordan, Qatar, and Turkey and the highest cited article (5 times) was  from Jordan.

Some research has been carried out to investigate the role of microbiota in developing Covid-19. However, further studies are needed to clarify this role.

There are some strengths and weaknesses in current indicators of scientometrics. This study aimed to present a new index of scientometrics in evaluating scientific output of Iranian medical journals.

This exploratory analytical study was done with a scientometric approach in scientific output of 108 medical science journals indexed in Scopus and 63 scientific output of the universities of medical sciences in Iran, 2018. Data were collected using a checklist that included scientometric factors. The inclusion criteria was to have at least two articles indexed in the Scopus database and at least one citation. The index to be calculated was the ratio of the number of articles with at least one citation to zero according to the Odds index.

Findings showed that the mean h-index of journals was 14.06 and the mean O-index was 2.29. In universities, the highest mean values of O-index, h-index, and h5-index were 2.724, 85.8, and 45.7, respectively belonging to type I universities. There were significant relationships in O, h, and h5 indices between the three types of universities (P= 0.000).

According to this study, the O-index was correlated with the h-index and could be very useful in evaluating the scientific output of universities and journals alongside other indices.

As social networks are increasingly used, the research published through social networks should be evaluated. Hence, new measures were employed to examine the scientific effectiveness of social networks. The measurements taken from social networks, called Altmetrics, provide an opportunity to evaluate research. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the presence of indexed articles of researchers affiliated with Bushehr University of Medical Sciences at the Scopus site in social networks.

The present applied study used altmetrics to determine articles with the highest altmetrics score. Data was collected form June 22nd to August 23rd, 2018 from Scopus database, and analyzed using descriptive and analytic statistics (Pearson’s correlation coefficient) in Excel and SPSS
version 20.

The findings of this study showed that out of 679 articles incexed for Bushehr University of Medical Sciences in Scopus database, 128 articles in social networks had altmetrics score in different social networks. The study of various networks showed that Mendely (79.79%), Twitter (8.58%) and
Dimensions (6.86%) were the most important social networks that users visited or shared through the research articles. Finally, we found a positive and significant relationship between altmetrics and citation indicators of articles,

It can be said that altmetrics can be used as a complement to citation indicators to evaluate the performance of researchers.

Matthew's value is an index that examines the visibility of a journal's articles over the past five years. In this study, the agricultural journals were evaluated using this index during 2010- 2016.

The statistical population of this citation analysis study consisted of 171 journals indexed in Scopus. The data were collected using the SCImago, and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Spearman correlation coefficient and Pearson correlation tests were applied to prove the relationship between Hirsch (h) index and Matthew’s value.

A total of 4037 Iranian articles were published in 171 studied journals. The highest rate of acceptance of agricultural articles by the journals was 237 articles, the highest h-index was 193 and the highest Matthew’s value was 12.253, which belonged to European and American journals. Correlation coefficient test confirmed the positive relationship between h-index and Matthew’s value.

Increasing scientific outputs in the field of agriculture does not necessarily lead to increased citation; therefore, both quantity and quality should be considered in scientific outputs.

The current study aimed to investigate the efficacy of published articles of scholars in the field of “Quran & Health” in Scopus and Web of Science during 2009-2018.

This research was an applied descriptive-analytical study that was conducted as a scientometric study. The population included all the Iranian scholars’ papers in the field of “Quran & Health” during 2009-2018 in Scopus and Web of Science databases. Data were processed by altmetrics bookmarklet and analyzed with Excel.

Of total articles (331 articles), some articles had a digital object identifier (DOI). Among them, the low percentage had an altmetrics score. Mendeley and twitter had a greatest proportion in mentioning Iranian scholars’ papers. The highest number of sharing these articles belonged to United States and England. Medicine and Dentistry had a highest number of Mendeley’s references.

The findings indicated that the low percentage of the Iranian articles had the digital object identifier. Therefore, it can be suggested that Iranian scholars in the field of “Quran & Health” have to pay more attention in publish their findings in the journal which allocate doi to their papers.

The Science is the product of curiosity, thought, reason, wisdom, and individual and group experiences, and all nations of the world are involved in its production. In recent years, the scientific output of various fields, including the field of surgery, has been evaluated and evaluated by various organizations and bases, including ISI and Scopus, within the ISC. Therefore, the results of these measurements can provide practical guidance for practitioners, writers, and scientific publications to reinforce their strengths. The purpose of this study was to compare and compare the production of Iranian surgical community science from 2000 to the end of 2017 using two Scopus and Web of Science citation databases.

The purpose of this study is applied and data collection is descriptive-survey which has been done by a scientometric approach. The statistical population of the study includes all scientific outputs of Iranian surgical researchers using Web of Science and Scopus Citation databases during 2000-2017. The method was done by limiting the keyword Surgery to Topic and restricting it to Iran. Also, using the embedded analysis engine option on the database and downloading and saving the data in Tab Limited format and transferring it to Excel software, the analysis related to each of the research questions was performed and the tables and charts were plotted.

The results of the study showed that Hashemi was recognized by producing 95 records on the Web site and 132 records in the Scopus base of the field&#039;s superior researcher. Tehran University of Medical Sciences also has the highest production in both of the most prominent organizations in the field of surgery. The review of journals showed that the Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal published 177 records on the Web site of the Journal of Isfahan Medical School with 304 records in the Scopus database of the leading surgeons. The Iranian researchers in the field of surgery have published their products on the website of the US Department of Medicine on "general internal medicine" and on the scopus site "medicine". Other studies of the present study have identified the countries of Iran&#039;s collaborative scientific productions in the field of surgery, which showed that Iranian researchers conducted their most scientific productions at both sites with researchers from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

The results showed that the process of dissemination of surgical field products in two bases is increasing. Also the leading authors in the two bases are in the first to third rank, although their number is different in both bases. The results also showed that researchers at the two sites publish their scientific products in different journals and did not confine their scientific productions to specific journals.