Analysis of Scientific Collaborations in Articles of Journal of Health Information Management

As science progress is the result of collective activity, the study of quality and quantity of coauthorship in countries, institutions, and journals is important. This research examined the scientific collaboration between disciplines, institutions, countries, and authors of the Journal of Health Information Management. This study was done using coauthorship analysis with scientometrics approach. All of the authors of articles from 2004 to 2017 were extracted with their affiliations. The coauthorship analysis, and calculating centrality indicators, and the frequencies of studied items including authors and their affiliations were done. Among the institutions, Medical Services Management, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences (102 articles), Medical Library and Information Science, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences (87 articles), and Medical Services Management, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (46 articles) had the most articles, respectively. Moreover, Medical Services Management, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences also had the highest level of collaboration with other institutions. There were international collaborations with the United States, Austria, Australia, the United Kingdom, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, and Malaysia in this journal. Considering of the importance of inter-institutional and international collaborations in national and international evaluations of journal indexing databases, despite the appropriate level of internal and external scientific collaboration of this journal, it is necessary for this journal to consider the acceptance and recruitment of articles with the collaboration of authors outside the university, to improve its status regarding to these criteria.