Thematic Content Analysis and Visualization of Co-Authorship of Scientometrics Journal Articles During 2015-2020s

The aim was to identify the priorities, co-authorship, thematic distribution of medical sciences, and determine the contribution of countries in the publication of Scientometrics articles, in order to cluster and illustrate the topics of the medical field according to the frequency of occurrence of words in the titles of the articles.

Content analysis as a conducting qualitative research (based on scientometric indicators, quantitative approach of descriptive statistics, using scientometric software and techniques, has dealt with the systematic review of Iran's medical field in the WOS database, American Scientometrics magazine. The research community has been 1441 articles in 60 published issues (2015-2020). By searching for all types of indexed English documents in the advanced search section, 421 articles were retrieved, then using subject groups, articles related to separate medical fields (382) was examined.

In identifying priorities and thematic distribution of articles, 5 thematic areas of citation, bibliometrics, collaboration network and lexical network, author and science have been the most frequent. The analysis of the share of countries also showed that China, America and Spain respectively had the highest amount of scientific production in Scientometrics.

The thematic policy of the field of Scientometrics within the country in medicine is somewhat consistent with the thematic policy of this field at the international level. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate and monitor the subject categories that have been less worked to push domestic research in that direction and strengthen the categories that have been worked on as well.