Co-authorship status in articles published in scientific journals of Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization during 2010-2014

The main purpose of this research is to investigate the co-authorship articles published in the scientific journals of the AREEO during the years 2010-2014. : This is an applied scientometrics research that was carried out using library methods and co-authorship analysis. The statistical population of the study consisted of 4684 articles in the 31 scientific journals published in the AREEO during the years 2010 to 2014. The results showed that for the 4684 articles, 8579 authors from 42 countries cooperated. The tendency of most writers to co-authorship and scientific collaboration with 4299 articles (92%) are co-authored and 385 articles (8%) are provided individually. From the collaborative's articles, 3 authors articles with a frequency of 1351 (29%) have the highest number and 8 authors articles with a frequency of 17 have the smallest number of articles. Most of the authors of the articles are oriented toward co-authorship and the pattern of 3 writers is the most common model of co-authorship. The average of the co-authorship ratio of the authors was calculated using the formula for determining the co-authorship coefficient and the number of 615% was obtained, which indicates the appropriate status of team collaboration among the authors.