همکاری علمی

Traditional medicine (TM) or complementary medicine is an old method based on culture, which has been developed in various forms of indigenous therapeutic methods in different societies. This research was conducted with the aim of analyzing the publication trend and visualizing the scientific structure of TM.

This study was carried out with a scientometric approach. The statistical population included 29,852 documents indexed in the TM field at the WoS database during the period of 2012 to 2020. The Excel and VOSviewer software were used for data analysis.

The findings showed that the scientific outputs of TM during the period studied had had an upward trend with 343,700 citations. Two universities in South Korea, namely Kyung Hee University and Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine (KIOM), had had the largest number of publications in this field. Further analysis of the data revealed that the highest levels of cooperation occurred between China and the US (565 cooperations), followed by China and Australia (253 cooperations) and China and the UK (134 cooperations). Finally Iran was found globally to have ranked fourth as regards TM publications and to be the most highly specialized country (in terms of RSI) in this field. This would necessitate more attention to appropriate scientific policy-making on the part of the responsible officials.

The cumulative frequency of publications in the field of traditional medicine in 2030 will be twice that in 2020. This trend would require special attention in scientific policy-making.

This study aimed to determine the position of Iran in terms of scientific publications in Immunology and Microbiology, and also to identify the general status of science production and the patterns of publishing in the world, the Middle East, and Iran, analyze Iran scientific collaboration with the Middle East and the world, and explore the relationship between these indicators.

The study population contained 30622 Middle Eastern publications in Immunology and Microbiology from 2009 to 2018. Positioning the countries and exploring the relations of indicators, the exploratory factor analysis, and the correlation matrix were conducted using Scival.

According to the findings Iran, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia were among the most powerful countries in the region in terms of publication, citation, regional, international, and overall scientific collaboration. As for regional positioning, the citations had the highest weight comparing to other indicators. Iran have the first rank in the indices of scientific production and citations with 43.63% and 33.76% respectively, third rank in the regional cooperation index with 43.63%, second rank in the extra-regional cooperation index with 23.56%, and also second rank in the total cooperation index with 22.12%.

The indicators were strongly connected togather; however, the citations and international scientific collaborations displayed the strongest amongst others. Despite Iran’s prominent position in both fields, the quality of the publication was lower than the regional and global average. This identified the most powerful and weak countries in the region in regards to scientific capacities in Immunology and Microbiology. Moreover, it reckoned that there was a strong relation between citations and scientific production in contrast with others.

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.

Nowadays, organizations and institutions evaluate their performance to ensure that they are taking the right steps towards their goals and missions. In this regard, universities and research institutes assess their success in achieving their goals by analyzing their scientific outputs and productions. This study aims to investigate the scientific productions and collaborations of the authors affiliated with the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences (USWRS) in Scopus database in comparison with five medical universities.

This study, using scientometric techniques, was conducted on June 5, 2021. The information about scientific productions of the USWRS and other five universities of Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Hamedan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences were identified were extracted from the Scopus database and then converted into scalable format in Sci2 software. The output was then plotted in VOSviewer software.

The mean number of authors for the USWRS in each article was 9, and the highest scientific collaborations was with the authors from United States, United Kingdom and Sweden. The authors for the USWRS also had a significant co-authorship with each other. According to the national ranking, this university was ranked 23 lower  than Hamedan University of Medical Sciences and Golestan University of Medical Sciences. In terms of the number of published papers, it was in the second place after Hamadan University of Medical Sciences. The level of international cooperation of this university was more than other compared universities.

It seems that the USWRS’s scientific policy has been successful in increasing the scientific productions. More efforts should be made in this university to establish scientific collaborations with other universities at the national and international levels for encouraging authors.

The development of international activities in order to generate revenue, branding, increase quality and gain credibility has become the main concern of world-class universities. The purpose of this study is to develop a model for the development of international scientific cooperation in the higher education system of the country with a Grounded Theory Approach.

This  study by using qualitative research method based on data foundation theory and interviews with a purposefully selected sample of managers of the international department of public universities (10 people) and experts (5 people) in this field has been done. Interviews were analyzed using Strauss and Corbin coding methods (open, selective and axial).

The results show six dimensions consisting of causal conditions (human resources, physical infrastructure, economic factors, cultural factors, technological factors), phenomenon-oriented (educational and research collaborations, faculty members, policy-making), strategy (having a plan Strategic for international, organizational, supportive scientific cooperation), contextual conditions (university capacities, international organizational climate, international attitude), interventionist conditions (government, political situation, globalization) and consequences (development of diplomacy, Increasing quality, solving society᾽s problems, introducing Iranian civilization to the world, generating income).

According to the results of the present study, universities need to take steps to develop international scientific activities in order to gain credibility, branding, increasing quality and revenue generation, the model presented in this study can be helpful in this regard.

For any progress, countries need scientific outputs, and that is only possible through research. Therefore, the aim of this study was to analyze the status of scientific outputs of Qom University in the Web of Science (WoS), emphasizing scientific collaboration and mapping co-authorship networks.

This applied documentary study was conducted using scientometric techniques and social network analysis. The research population was 1222 documents of scientific outputs of Qom University indexed in the WoS from 2002 to 2019. Data were analyzed using Excel, Bib Excel, Isi.exe, SPSS 25, UCINET as well as descriptive and analytical statistics. Netdraw software was used to map the network, and the Spearman test was applied to identify the relationship between research variables.

Findings showed that the trend of scientific outputs of Qom University in the studied years was upward, and the growth rate of total scientific outputs of this university was 39%. Most scientific outputs were in the fields of chemistry, engineering and mathematics, and 90% of the indexed documents were research articles. In terms of co-authorship pattern, three co-authors were the most one so that the most collaboration was with universities of Islamic Azad, Soran in Iraq and Payam-e-Noor as well as with countries of the United States, Iraq and Australia. Nasrullahzadeh, Ehsani and Bayat had the highest centrality in terms of index, closeness and intermediate, respectively. Moreover, the density of the network was 0.004, and there was a significant and direct relationship between scientific outputs and centrality indicators.

In terms of growth rate, the scientific outputs of Qom University have no desirable condition, and in terms of co-authorship pattern, three co-authors are the most one.

Drawing the scientific collaboration maps is very important for analyzing and identifying scientific collaborations in different subject areas of science. Therefore, the aim of this was to scientometrically analyze intellectual capital articles and draw the scientific collaboration map in this area.

This applied study was performed using a scientometric approach. The statistical population of the study included 2077 intellectual capital articles indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) citation database during 1985-2018. In addition, the VOSviewer software was used to draw the scientific collaboration maps of authors, countries, journals, organizations and keyword co-occurrences.

The findings showed that the publication and citation trend of the intellectual capital articles in the WoS was ascending; Dumay with 30 citations and 620 documents and Bontis with14 documents and 463 citations. The most cited authors, countries, universities, journals and keywords in this field were in the following order: Countries including United States (361 documents and 5745 citations), the United Kingdom (199 documents and 3492 citations) and Spain (171 documents and 1591 citations); Universities like Macquarie University of Australia (32 documents and 467 citations) and McMaster University of Canada (26 documents and 697 citations); Journals such as Intellectual Capital (127 documents), Knowledge Management Research and Practice (53 documents), Management Decision (881 citations) and Expert Systems with Applications (786 citations); and keywords of Capital (901 documents and 11229 citations), Intellectual (817 documents and 9041citations) and Knowledge (267 documents and 2763 citations). Moreover, the keyword co-occurrence map was more coherent than the co-citation and co-authorship map of the authors, universities, countries and journals.

Citation and scientific collaboration in the intellectual capital articles despite the upward trend is weak; therefore, policymakers in this field should make the necessary plans to improve and strengthen scientific collaboration.

Transgenic species are the ones whose genomes are genetically modified. The transgenic field is one of the areas that has a high importance and position in the world. Therefore, the aim of the present research is to draw and analyze the co-authorship network of researchers in transgenic subject area.

The type of this research is descriptive and was carried out using scientometric techniques such as co-authorship network and social network analysis indices. In this study, 23,456 articles by transgenic researchers indexed in the Web of Science database during the period 2010-2019 were retrieved. VOSviewer and UCINET software were used to draw the co-authorship map and analyze the network indicators.

The scientific cooperation network of transgenic researchers was studied and analyzed using macro and micro indicators of the social network. The status of macro indicators was not appropriate and the network was poorly cohesive. So that, the network density was 0.027, the clustering coefficient was 0.834, the diameter was 15 and the average distance was 4.155. In terms of micro-indicators, the status of researchers in the network was determined in such a way that David Ayares had the most cooperation with other members and also Nam-Hai Chua played the most important role in communicating with people from different clusters of the network, finally, Yan Zhang had the shortest distance with other members of the network.

Based on the findings, it can be concluded that the co-authorship network of transgenic researchers has low cohesion and information is transmitted among members at a low speed. With respect to this, status of different researchers in this study was determined, the results of this study can be used to guide future collaborations, and encourage universities and scientific institutes to develop their interactions with each other and further strengthen collaborations. It should also be noted that according to the findings of the study in this field, Iranian researchers were not identified as key individuals in this network, which requires research on the status and position of Iranian researchers in the field of transgenics.

The aim of this study was to illustrate the status of scientific collaboration of the University of Tehran in International Scientific Associations using Web of Science (WoS).

In this applied study, scientometric techniques were used to draw a scientific map. The statistical population included all scientific outputs of researchers affiliated with the University of Tehran from 2015 to 2019. The data were analyzed using Excel and VOSviewer.

The analysis of the findings showed that about 32% of the total outputs of the University of Tehran were done through international collaboration. Among the domestic institutions, the Islamic Azad University and among the foreign institutions, the "National Center for French Scientific Research" had the most collaboration with the researchers of the University of Tehran. Iranian researchers had the most collaboration with researchers from the United States, Canada and Germany. The fields of "Engineering", "Material Science" and "Chemistry" had the most collaboration with foreign researchers.

The scientific collaboration of the University of Tehran with foreign countries is in a favorable condition.

The aim of this study was to examine the status of documents related to coronavirus based on scientometric indicators and to draw a co-authorship map of authors, organizations and countries producing an article to get to know this field as much as possible.

This applied-scientometric was conducted using social network analysis. The statistical population of this study was all published documents related to coronavirus from 1985 to 2019 in Web of Science (WoS), and finally, 6980 documents were retrieved. Then, VOSviewer was used to analyze and draw the co-authorship map.

Among the top authors in the field of coronavirus, “Christian Drosten” with 85 documents and 4835 citations, “Yuen Kwok-Yung” with 70 documents and 3862 citations as well as “Patrick CY Woo” with 49 documents and 3160 citations have achieved the first to third place in terms of the number of co-authorship in this field, respectively. Moreover, the top authors, countries and organizations in the field of coronavirus had 11, 9 and 12 thematic clusters, respectively.

In this study, the results of co-authorship network analysis on coronavirus allow researchers to learn about the relationships between important elements and identify key individuals, organizations and countries in this field. Besides, the results of this study can pave the way for cooperation and knowledge sharing among experts in this field with other scientific fields.

Due to globalization and environmental changes that are taking place, few organizations or institutions can be found that survive without connection with the world around them, around them, in thes regards, the higher education system is not excluded from this matter and today the development of International scientific activities has become one of the main concerns of the worldchr('39')s top universities in terms of increasing credibility, quality, revenue generation and branding. The present study was conducted with the aim of identifying the factors hindering international scientific cooperation in the higher education system of the country.

The present study has been done in terms of applied purpose and qualitative approach. The target group of the present study was the managers of the international department of public universities in the country and experts in this field. Participants in the study were 10 managers of international departments of public universities and 4 experts in this field from whom research data were collected using semi-structured. Theme analysis was used for analyzing data.

The research findings indicate that the total number of free codes extracted from the content of the interviews was 126, which after merging similar codes with each other, finally 83 codes were extracted and classified in 10 similar concepts and finally in 5 The main themes were categorized. Structural, cultural, political, linguistic, financial, and physical equipment and infrastructure barriers were identified as the most important barriers to international scientific cooperation from the perspective of international managers of public universities and experts in the field.

One of the reasons that international scientific cooperation in higher education in the country has not been done properly is the lack of sufficient attention of policy makers and decision makers in higher education to the deterrents in this area. Therefore, the findings of this study can be used in higher education policies in order to expand international scientific cooperation in higher education.

Scientific collaboration among medical authors is growing. Due to the role of scientific collaboration in improvement of quality and quantity of scientific outputs, the aim of this study was to reflect the scientific collaboration among the authors in Payesh Journal (PJ).

In this scientometric study, all published articles of PJ (a medical journal published by Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research: ACECR) during 2012-2019 were evaluated. The articles were assessed in terms of the frequency of authors, average number of authors per article, most prolific universities/institutions and authors, intra- and inter-university collaboration, frequency of gender and group collaboration coefficient between authors. To answer hypotheses, the data were analyzed using SPSS.23 and Chi-square.

The results showed that 2206 authors contributed to the writing of 505 published articles. The average number of authors per articles was 4.49. The scientific collaboration coefficient was 0.73. Only 8 (1.5%) of articles were written by single author, and the dominant pattern in co-authorship was four-author article. There was a statistically significant difference between the gender of the first author and number of authors (P value <0.05). The number of authors was higher in articles in which the women were the first authors than in other articles.

Consequently, the scientific collaboration among authors of PJ is in appropriate level. Due to the importance of other collaboration patterns, further studies are needed on PJ to determine a more comprehensive status of scientific collaboration in this Journal and to provide effective policies to its officials.

A key aspect of Scientific collaboration increases scientific productivity. This study aimed to draw up a scientific collaboration network of the Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute (EMRI) at Tehran University of Medical Sciences.

A Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study was conducted by the Scientometrics method. Data collection from the Scopus and Web of Science Core collection databases between 2002 until 30 October 2020. MS-Excel, HistCite, VOSviewer, and ScientoPy were used for descriptive statistics and data analysis.

A total of 4190 records with the affiliation of the EMRI are indexed in two international databases. All of the records received a sum of 89480 citations. The EMRI Researchers were published in 1118 journals. The annual growth rate of publication and citation of the scientific output of the EMRI was 20.3% and 22.7%, respectively. A total of 17662 authors from 186 countries participated in the publication. The co-authorship pattern shows. The next section of the Study was classified and visualized based on authorship (institutes and country of affiliation), keywords (co-occurrence and trend).

Overall, these results indicate that the pattern of collaborations in the authorshipschr('39') articles increases the flow of knowledge among the institutechr('39')s researchers as a result of international collaborations, interaction with leading countries, and interdisciplinary collaborations. To develop a full picture of co-authorship, additional studies will need a comprehensive picture of network cooperation to analyze the situation with other social network analysis indicators.

Today, when economic conditions are based on knowledge, increasing the cooperation of universities in the science and technology activities of the industrial sector is one of the most important categories. The aim of this study was to conduct a comparative evaluation of the Iranian universities in the science and technology activities of industrial sector and top universities around the world.

This research which is applicable in purpose and documentary in method performed using comparative citation analysis method. The population of the study was all the world's top universities indexed in the top five ranking systems of the Times, US News, Shanghai, Leiden and CiVision. Moreover, all of their science and technology activities were recorded at the Scopus from 2009 to 2018. The data were extracted from SciVal and analyzed with descriptive statistics method and Excel.

Sharif University of Technology with 0.6% and Stanford University with 7.3% had the best performance in cooperation with industry and the research findings indicated that the average cooperation of university and industry at the Iranian universities was 0.33 and at the universities of the world was 5.3. Findings related to comparing universities also showed that the level of cooperation between the world's top universities and industry reached from 5.19% in 2009 to 5.38% in 2018 and cooperation between universities and industry in Iran reached from 0.26% in 2009 to 0.35% in 2018, indicating an increasing trend. Besides, the average cooperation of top universities in Iran with industry compared to the world’s top universities is16 times less than the global average.

The university and industry relationship in Iran is very low and less than the global average. The results of this study can be used in science and technology policies and achieving the goals of the 1404 vision document of the country and can improve the gap created between science and technology in the country by strengthening the relationship between university and industry.

Today, one of the most important methods of scientific evaluation is scientometric studies. The results of these studies can be seen as a roadmap for research planners and policymakers. The aim of this study was to evaluate the scientometrics of the Journal of Applied Research of Sport Management (JARSM).

In this applied and scientometric study, all articles of the JARSM from 2012 to 2018 were analyzed. The data were collected through the journal's website and analyzed using Excel and NodeXL.

Of the 279 articles published in the JARSM, 93% were multi-author publications and more than 31% were published in collaboration with scholars from Payame Noor University. This indicates the great interest of this journal in group collaboration as well as the publication of articles affiliated to their own university. Moreover, the thematic areas of sport management, organizational behavior and sport marketing have received more attention. Tehran and West Azerbaijan Provinces had the highest number of papers in JARSM. In addition, the journal has received the most impact from the Journal of Sport Management and Development, and has made the most scientific impact on the Journal of Sport Management.

Overall, the results show that the publication trend in the JARSM is sinusoidal, and its citation rate has been accompanied by a downward trend after a period of an upward one.

Co-authorship network is a kind of social network that offers significant information about collaboration among authors, which is one of the most important factors of the qualitative and quantitative growth of the scientific publications. The results of this study can clarify the dimensions of collaboration in dental schools in Tehran City, Iran, between the years 2011 and 2015 based on the data in Thompson Reuter’s Web of Science and Scopus databases.
The study was conducted through scientometrics method and social network analysis. The research community consisted of 802 documents indexed in the Scopus and Thompson Reuter’s Web of Science databases published in years 2011-2015.
The majority of collaborations made by Iranian researchers were with the authors from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Turkey. Co-authorship network of researchers consisted of 60 nodes (authors) and density degree of the network was 0.028. There was a strong linear correlation between the number of publications and degree centrality of authors at the level of 0.73.
The results seem to indicate more collaborative research and an increase in the overall production of articles with this cooperation growing at an appropriate level. This suggests that researchers in this field are aware of the benefits of scientific cooperation.

Scientific collaborations increase citations and its results in the other's research. This aim of this study was to determine the number of authors in different majors of humanities, basic sciences and arts and the relationship between the number of authors and number of citations on Iranian articles indexed in the Web of Science.
Material and The present study was conducted using descriptive and analytical methods through scientometric methods. The research population was all articles published by Iranian researchers on the topics of basic sciences, humanities and art, indexed in the Web of Science in 2012, which were 17671 documents. The number of citations of articles has been recorded by May 2016. The year of 2016 was selected for the articles in the various categories would have enough time to get the citation. Data were collected via referring to articles in each field, counting the number of authors in each article and the number of citations received each article until May 2016. Bib Excel, Excel, and SPP softwares were used to analyzed the data.
Findings: This research has shown that the largest share of research collaboration in Iran is in a group of two to five people. Moreover, there was a relationship and correlation between the number of authors and the number of citations in different majors.
Among the examined categories, the field of medicine had the highest correlation coefficient between the number of authors and the number of citations, and archeology had the lowest correlation.

By measure of scientific publications, it is possible to present a real picture of scientific activities of a country. In this regard, based on joint work to achieve specific objectives that typically produce knowledge and scientific information, scientific and research cooperations are defined. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to analyze the scientific collaborations in Iranian dentistry articles in Scopus during 2010‐2014.
The population was Iranian dental articles which were indexed in Scopus during 2010‐2014. Finally, the results were presented in the format of tables and diagrams.
The findings showed that scientific cooperations were increased in the field of dentistry during 2014-2010 in the Scopus. Tehran University of Medical Sciences had the most publications. The rate of index, degree and coefficient of collaboration during 2010-2014, were 4.23, 0.97 and 0.71, respectively with relatively high values. Most of the articles during the 2010-2014 were four, three, and five authored articles were the first, second and finally the third position of occurrence rate. Our data suggested that the lowest number of articles were related to articles with 9 authors or more.
According to the results of this study, it can be concluded that the Iranian prosperity of scientific publication in the field of Dentistry is growing. Furthermore, the results showed that the Iranian authors and researchers have tendency to scientific collaboration with other researchers in groups.

Research in the medical field requires large budgets, specialist human resources and modern equipment and instruments. Scientific collaboration is a way to overcome such problems. Main goal of this study was analyzing scientific collaboration of universities of medical sciences in different aspects.
In this research, by using scientometrics methods and social network analysis techniques, the Universities of Medical Sciences co-authorship network was mapped. Source of collecting Data, was Web Of Science database. For mapping and analyzing of scientific networks, we used Bibexcel, VOSviewer, Pajek and UCINET software.
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and Tehran University of Medical Sciences, with 933 co-authorship papers are in the first place in scientific collaboration among Iranian Universities of Medical Sciences. And at the international level, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences has more scientific collaboration than other Iranian universities with the University of Malaya. Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences and Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, have significant position in terms of centrality index in co-authorship network.
Medical sciences researchers have very strong tendency to make scientific collaboration with Tehran University of Medical Sciences researchers. For this reason, scientific collaboration network has become a monopoly network around Tehran University of Medical Sciences. This form of collaboration prevents creation of opportunities for collaboration.

Assessment of scientific outputs is necessary. This paper studied Royan Institute’s research outputs in Web of Science from 1997 to 2014.
Material and Data were collected from Web of Science database using Scientometrics methods. Data received, analyzed using Excel 2010 and Bibexcel, and data visualized using VOSviewer.
Findings: Royan Institute had 892 documents in total, which was about half percent of scientific documents in country in 2014 and the average of annual growth rate has been about 43%. Three areas of gynecology, reproductive biology and cell biology research constituted the main research topics of Royan. Hirsch index of the Institute was 37 and 40% of its scientific documents published in Q1 and Q2 Journals. Average citation to each article of international collaboration, national collaboration and non-collaboration papers was 14, 6, and 4, respectively.
The Royan Institute is one of the main Institutes in the field of medical research and its output growth rate was higher than that of Iran. Evaluation of quality indicators showed the relative quality of scientific outputs and collaborative papers of this Institute had higher quality in terms of citation impact.