Analysis and Visualization of scientific productions in the field of Quran in database of Web of Science

Scientific maps are the presentation of a macro picture of the conducted researches and how different fields are related over time. In order for research to be effective in developing and achieving goals, as well as for the effectiveness of research to solve problems and improve society at the national level, it is necessary to implement need-based and practical research and to make decisions based on the results obtained from them. Considering the importance of scientific productions, this research aims to draw a scientific map in the field of the Qur'an in order to give a general picture of the existing researches in this field that helps to understand the internal relationships and clarify the existing gaps and gaps. This research is of applied type and has been done with scientometric approach. The statistical population of this research was all the scientific products related to the Quran in the Web of Science reference database and no special sampling was used. To collect data, the advanced search section of the Web of Science citation database was used. After filtering, the data were entered into scientometric software and scientific maps were drawn. To draw the maps, vosViewer, ucinet, and bibExcel software were used. Reviewing the retrieved data showed that the most prolific author is ranked first with the production of 34 information records, the highest rate of information record production in the core journals was 530, the most articles indexed in English and the document type Article with the number of 1142 information records and 72.92% It had the highest rank and 2020 had the highest scientific growth trend with 231 information records.