Scientometric analysis of scientific production in the field of Holy Quran

Purpose of this research is scientometric study of the scientific products in the field of Holy Quran.

This research is applied that done by scientometric method. The statistical population includes 356 scientific outputs in the Clarivate Analytics during 1985-2018. Data gathering tools are check list and information analysis tools are HisCite, VOSviewer, and Excel software’s.

Findings showed that publishing trends of documents despite the high volatility have been increased in different years and most subjects of them related to information systems and religion. Also countries of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, United States, Malaysia and Iran; universities of Taibah, Malaya, King Saud University, Kebangsaan Malaysia and Islamic Azad University of Iran; journals of Taibah university international conference on advances in information technology for the Holy Quran and the American Journal of comparative law; and Alginahi, Horowitz and Khan had the most publication and citations and keywords of the Quran and Islam had the most co-occurrence of keywords.

Results showed that rate of local citations and scientific collaborations are much lower and the keyword networks are also more dispersed. Therefore, policy-makers of this field should provide the necessary facilities for conducting Quranic research and increase scientific cooperation at the local and global level.