Co-authorship of Iranian researchers in the field of Toxicology in Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) during 1991-2011

Co-Authorship is «the most expansion knowledge sharing network» and real intervention of researcher in science production and development. This research has studied co-authorship of Iranian researchers in the field of Toxicology in Science Citation Index (SCI) during 1991 – 2011.

The research was applied and scientometric instrument based on co-authorship indicators. Data gathering was done by referring to ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) databases. The search has been done for name of country and Toxicology field and 1160 documents were retrieved. Data analysis has been done by using Excel and Bib Excel programs.

The results showed that Iranians’ collaboration were in the three-authored papers. The highest percentage of collaboration were at 1997 and collaboration coefficient (CC) was 0. 75 and in the year the highest collaboration were in the documents with three and five authors. Totally، CC was calculated 0. 61 Too، Tehran University of Medical Sciences (341 documents)، Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (135 documents) and Ahwaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences (105documents) were the most prolific universities in the field، settled one – three ranking. In the international level Iranian researchers tended to collaborate with canadian (23documents)، UK (19 documents) and USA (19 documetns) researchers. As well as a most prolific writer Mohammad Abdullahi was 106 documents.

Considering the high tendency of Iranian researchers in the field of Toxicology in producing scientific documents with national and international researchers، it is necessary to pay more attention to the national and international collaborations.