Appraisal and Analysis of the Articles of the Journal of Geography & Planning indexing in Islamic World Science Citation Center during 2015-2017

The growing number of scientific journals’ issues on one hand, and the widespread use and dependence of the scientific community on the other hand, have turned the quantitative and qualitative periodicals review into one of the most important issues in this type of resource evaluation. This research was conducted with the aim of evaluating the scientific products of the authors of Geograohy & Planning from 2015 to 2017. The results show that 186 articles have been published in this journal in these three years. Approximately, 55% of the articles were conducted by the universities’ faculty members through a team collaboration. The results show that the average of co-authorship-rate in these three years was 0.59, which indicates the level of collaboration between authors of this journal. A total of 97 papers were co-authored with the participation of fellow authors from a university and 69 articles from authors of different universities, indicating that this journal’s authors are more inclined to participate in inter-institute activities. Tabriz University, Tehran University and Tarbiat Modares University and Payame Noor University have the most cooperation in producing journal articles.