Evaluation of Scientific Collaboration of Iranian Researchers in the Field of Microelectronics Science and Technology in the Scopus Database in 2000-2017

The purpose of this study is to identify and evaluation of our scientific cooperation between Iranian researchers in the field of microelectronics, which is reflected in the Scopus database.

The present Research is an applied scientometrics method that is carried out by documentary procedure and the required data is collected from the Scopus database. The research community consists of all the scientific productions of researchers in the field of microelectronics, which are indexed in the Scopus between 2000 and 2017.

The findings of the research indicate that the co-authorship in the field of microelectronics has been growing trend over the years; this trend has been decreasing in the years 2006-2011-2014.  In addition, the prevailing the most collaborative pattern in this research is 3 co-authors with a percentage of 32.16 (1338) and 2 co-authors with a percentage of 30.50 (1269). 

Conclustion: 

The average co-integration index is 0.93, the co-operation index is 3.06 and the co-authorship coefficient is 0.58. Among the researchers Hadidi and Khoei from the University of Urimia and Navi from the University of Shahid Beheshti are the most active writers in the field of microelectronics.