Quantitative and Qualitative Study of Scientific Productions in the Field of “Quran and Health”

The qualitative and quantitative study of scientific productions in different fields, as well as the review of the papers indexed in reliable citation indexes, has become a modern approach defined as scientometrics. The current research aimed to assess the position of scientific productions of researchers in the field of Quran and health in the Scopus database in terms of quantity and quality using scientometric techniques.

This research was an applied descriptive study carried out as citation analysis. The research population includes scientific productions in the field of Quran and health in the Scopus database within 1989-2018. The data obtained from the study of production, prominence, and citation indices were analyzed in Excel software.

 As evidenced by the obtained results, the scientific productions indexed in Scopus database in the field of Quran and health within1989-2018 had an average annual growth of 11.4%. The highest percentage of scientific production prominence within 2016-2018 and the correlation coefficient between the production index and index of scientific productions prominence in the field of Quran and health was obtained at 0.54. Scientific productions in the medical category account for 51% of the total scientific productions in the field of Quran and health. In terms of citation index, each document received an average of 5.89% citations.

Based on the results of the present study, researchers in this field have strived to study the undiscovered aspects. Nevertheless, different researchers are required to take more effective steps to identify the potential of this valuable resource in the field “Quran and Health”.