Co-Authorship and Co-Word Analyses of Curriculum Management and Planning Research in Iran during 2010-2019

This study aimed to analysis the co-authorship and co-word analysis of curriculum management and planning research in Iran (years 2009 to 2019).

The present study was an applied and the statistical population of this study included 2466 indexed articles in the field of management and curriculum planning in the Iranian Science Citation index database. To analyze the research data, Bibexcel, Vosviewer" and "Ucinet" software packages were used.

The average participation of authors per article was 2.72%. "Kourosh FathiVajargah" with 36 articles and "Abbas Bazargan" with 60 citations to his 15 articles were the top authors in terms of number of articles and citations to articles, respectively. 87.3% of the articles were published in groups and 44.3% did not receive citations at all. "Kourosh FathiVajargah-Mahboubeh Arefi" with 13 joint articles, was the best couple in the field. The largest co-authorship network consisted of 103 authors, with Kourosh Fathi Vajargah being the top author in terms of centrality indicators. "University", "higher education" and "achievement" were the three most frequent keywords. The subject clusters were: "Achievement", "Curriculum planning", "Academic self-efficacy", "Educational needs assessment", "Transformational leadership" and "Organizational climate".

It is needed that authors in the field pay more attention to co-authirship for area progress. It is necessary for the authors of this field to pay more attention to the issues and topics of curriculum planning around the axis of primary and secondary education in comparison with the higher education level.