The Efficacy of Published Articles of Scholars in the Field of “Quran & Health” in Social Networks: An Altmetrics Study

The current study aimed to investigate the efficacy of published articles of scholars in the field of “Quran & Health” in Scopus and Web of Science during 2009-2018.

This research was an applied descriptive-analytical study that was conducted as a scientometric study. The population included all the Iranian scholars’ papers in the field of “Quran & Health” during 2009-2018 in Scopus and Web of Science databases. Data were processed by altmetrics bookmarklet and analyzed with Excel.

Of total articles (331 articles), some articles had a digital object identifier (DOI). Among them, the low percentage had an altmetrics score. Mendeley and twitter had a greatest proportion in mentioning Iranian scholars’ papers. The highest number of sharing these articles belonged to United States and England. Medicine and Dentistry had a highest number of Mendeley’s references.

The findings indicated that the low percentage of the Iranian articles had the digital object identifier. Therefore, it can be suggested that Iranian scholars in the field of “Quran & Health” have to pay more attention in publish their findings in the journal which allocate doi to their papers.