An investigation of the literature of the Hyrcanian forests in Web of Science based on scientometric indicators

The purpose of this study was to compare the status of the Hyrcanian forests research in the level of the country, organization, researcher, and journal. The Scientometrics approach is used for this research. The population of this study consists of 376 Hyrcanian forests indexed in the Web of Science. The study was conducted during 2010-2019. HistCite software was used for further analysis and VOSviewer software has been used to drawing collaboration networks. Findings showed that Iran was in the first place with 335 documents and a very high degree of RSI, compared to the rest of the countries. Of the top 10 most productive organizations in this field, nine were Iranian-affiliated, and another was the University of Tuscia, Italy. The University of Tehran ranked first with 104 documents. Meghdad Jourgholami from the University of Tehran with 20 documents was the most productive researcher in this field. Among the top 10 most productive researchers were two from Italy and the rest were from Iran. The Journal of Forestry Research topped the list with 21 articles in the field. In general, the results indicate Iran's good position in this field, which is natural given the high share of Hyrcanian forests in Iran. Also, publications and citations in this field have been positive growth throughout the years under study.