Investigating the quantitative status of theses and dissertations in humanities with an Islamic approach at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in 1984-2014

The aim was to study the quantitative status of theses and dissertations in humanities education with an Islamic approach at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in a 31-years period to determine the role of this university in science production, with an Islamic approach. scientometric method was used. The population consisted of theses and dissertations in the fields of humanities with an Islamic approach. 1201 theses and dissertations with Islamic approach were registered at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad among which the field of jurisprudence and Islamic law with 341 items had the most, and English language and literature and French language and literature, each ones with 5 items, the least numbers. Among the identified issues, the subject of the Quran, criminal law (jurisprudence) and Quran interpretations were identified as top issues.The average annual growth in the production of theses and dissertations in humanities was equal to 44.35%. which was high. Out of 210 scientific papers extracted from identified theses and dissertations, 133 items were produced by master and 77 items by ph.d students. Finally, the scientific map of detected Islamic theses and dissertations was drawn and analyzed using Vosviewer application. The type of the co-vocabulary network was also continuous.