Visualization and Analysis of Word Co-occurrence Network of thesis in the Department of Consulting at the Shahid Beheshti University

The aim of this study was to visualize and analysis of topics in the Department of Consulting of the Shahid Beheshti University’s theses during 2005-2015. The current study is an applied research in terms of objectives while it is a descriptive and survey in terms of data analysis and conducted using scientometric and social network analysis indicators. The research population comprised of all 145 master’s theses which have been conducted at the Department of Consulting of the Shahid Beheshti University during 2005-2015. Titles and abstracts of the theses were investigated by two specialists in consulting and a few keywords were assigned to each document. Then, the adjacency matrix of word co-occurrences was generated in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and transferred to the UCINet and VOSViewer for analysis. According to the findings, the most important and prolific topics in terms of degree centrality measures were group intervention, academic achievement and character. Moreover, group intervention, academic achievement, character and coping strategies were four topics with the highest betweenness centrality. Moreover, the density map of the word co-occurrence map showed that topics including group intervention, academic achievement, the most important and trending topics in Department of Consulting’s theses.