Analysis of Thematic Areas of Curriculum Development Researchers Based on Their Articles Published in the SID and NOOR Magazines

The main purpose of the present study was to identify curriculum specialists by reviewing their articles, and determining the specific research area of ​​each. This research is of the applied type and descriptive-analytical method which has been done in three steps. In the first step, the names of people who had 5 or more articles in specialized curriculum journals approved by the Ministry of Science were extracted, which reached 57 people and were used as a basis for work. In the second step, in order to prepare a thematic list of articles, the names of the selected researchers were searched in two databases of Noor and Jihad Daneshgahi journals. At this stage, by reviewing the articles of the first ten authors in terms of the number of articles, a list of thematic areas was prepared. In the third step, each researcher's articles were placed in a thematic category. This list includes four categories as follows: 1) General category; 2) higher education, 3) secondary education, and 4) primary education, each of which includes elements of design, implementation, purpose, content, method, curriculum evaluation, teacher, learner, time and place, and application of technology. Based on this, the list of curriculum specialists along with the number of articles in each of the 4 areas was obtained and a road map was compiled.