The present study analyses the status of researchers in the field of Persian Literature with a scientometric approach based on the articles of Persian journals in the field of Persian Literature and tries to determine the importance and influence of each of the authors and research institutions in the field of Iranian academic Persian Literature, provided the possibility of evaluating the previous scientific policies of the country in this field. In this research, first, the trend of the rise and fall of the number of articles and co-authorship patterns over time has been investigated and researchers with the largest number of articles have been identified. In the following, after the formation of the co-authorship network, the relationships and importance of authors in this field have been investigated. Observations indicate that the number of articles has grown greatly since the 2000. According to the present research, despite the increase in the number of three-person articles, the collaboration of two authors in writing articles is still considered the most common pattern of co-authorship. According to the results of this study, the scientific centre of Tarbiat Modares University and Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies and the scientific centre of the University of Isfahan are the most influential research centres in terms of publishing scientific articles in the field of Persian literature in Iran.

This research has been carried out to assess different co-authorship indicators of the Iranian ssociation’s Journal of Arabic Language and Literature during 2012-2013. Results showed that in these two years 60 journals have been published, 40 of which are in Persian and 20 in Arabic. About 60 percent of the articles have been authored by faculty members and with the cooperation of two authors, showing that 78 percent of the journal’s authors had co-authorship relationships. The average of co-authorship index in this year was less than 0.5 that reveals the weakness in cooperation of the authors of this journal. 42 articles have been written with the cooperation of coauthors from one university, and in writing just 11 articles, the authors from different universities had cooperation, which shows lack of inter-university cooperation of the authors. Also this research showed that Tarbiat Modares University, Kharazmi University and Razi University, each with 6 articles, jointly have ranked first in article production. Among the authors of this journal, Dr. Kobra Roshanfekr is known as the most prolific author. Among the different types of document, authors cited books more than others. Mean citation of for each article is 24/15 citation, and for each number is 181/12.

Essays on Narrative Theory and Narratology (Horry, 2013) contains seven translated and three compiled essays and it is translated and written in order to present the most important aspects of general theory of narrative, in a coherent and purposeful manner, to present appropriate narrative analysis from Persian texts for those Persians who are interested in narratology. In this essay I evaluate various aspects of the book, and relying on sufficient evidences like: quality of equivalents and translations, grammatical matters, formal aspects, citations, and quality of compiled essays, I show that this book has many faults and errors. And if it is revised in terms of form and content, and enriched with extra useful translated and compiled essays, it could meet some needs of general audience of narratology or be introduced as a textbook.

This research is conducted with the purpose of citation assessment and analysis of comparative literature journal during 2007-2013. The results show that this journal within the years under study (7 years)، published 262 articles in 28 issues. The collaboration of researchers shows that within these seven years 51. 15% of articles had just one author. In other words، in the first four years، the scientific collaboration of authors had been weak and the majority of articles were single-authored ones. However، over the last three years authors have tended towards collaborative writing and coauthoring. This research shows that Mehdi Momtahen with 22 articles is introduced as the most prolific author. Also Islamic azad university of Jiroft branch with 46 articles is ranked as the most prolific university. Books form 90% of research sources of the authors of this journal and about 71% of research sources of this journal has been in Persian language.

This article analyzes the sources cited in articles published in the Journal of National Studies. The research method is citation analysis، and data analysis was performed using Excel software. The review of the subject scattering showed more than half the articles (50. 41 percent)، the issue of «national identity» has been discussed. The books with 6820 citations and journal articles with over 2234 citations were more than from other sources. Among the cited sources of the Persian، 68. 47 percent of the books were written and 31. 52 percent were translation. Also، 93. 82 percent (1489) of the Persian journals articles were written and 6. 17 percent (98 cases) have been translation. The highest cited author and translator were respectively، Anthony Giddens with 82 and Mohsen Salasi with 51 citations. The highest cited books in Persian and English were “Modernity and Distinction” and “Social Identity”، respectively، with 31 and 9 citations. The highest cited journals in English and Persian were “National Studies” and the “Journal of Personality and Social Psychology”، respectively، with 345 and 11 citations.

This research used a scientometirc approach and social network analysis indices to investigate the co-authorship network between Iranian researchers, universities and research institutions in Iran’s engineering education field. The corpus of the study included 444 articles published in Persian in the Iranian Journal of Engineering Education from1999 to 2014. The network co-authorship matrix was drawn using a Ravar-Matrix; and then two types of social network software, UCINET and VOSviewer, were utilized for data analysis. The productivity index results revealed that the largest number of articles were written by M. Yaghobi (20 articles), J. Hejazi (15 articles), GH. Daneshi (15 articles), H. Memarian (15 articles) and P. Davami (14 articles). Moreover, based on centrality indices of the Iranian Journal of Engineering Education researchers like M. Yaghobi, P. Davami and J. Hejazi were assumed to play leading roles in the co-authorship network. In terms of the scientific productivity index, Sharif University of Technology (65 articles), Shiraz University (58 articles), and University of Tehran (57 articles) achieved the highest ranks.In addition, based on indices of degree centrality, between ness centrality, and closeness centrality, universities like Sharif University of Technology, Shiraz University, University of Tehran, and Islamic Azad University were the most effective universities in terms of scientific productivity in the Iranian Journal of Engineering Education.

This paper aims to make a quantitative comparison between translated and national novels within polysystem theoretical framework. Even-Zohar’s polysystem theory attempts to position translated and non-translated texts in literary polysystem. This article concludes that, regarding the number of publications, translated novels occupy the centre of Iran’s literary system. Using Even-Zohar’s concepts, the writers believe that Iran’s literary polysystem is experiencing a “continued crisis” which dates back to many years ago.

In this study, coefficient group collaboration and co-authorship papers published in Rostaniha journal (Botanical Journal of Iran) from 2000 to 2014 has been done. In addition,identifying the most active authors, organizations or institutions are involved in publishing articles group (co-authorship) and the countries with the highest participation and cooperation in the production of articles are the other objectives of the present study. The present study is conducted by scientometrics method and the research population including 390 articles published during 2000–14. Research findings show that, from 390 published articles, 88% was in Persian and 12% in English language. Sixty-one percent of authors were males and remained 39% as females. From the contributed countries, except Iran by 95%, Germany, Japan and Armenia have had the most contribution. Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection (IRIPP) by 165 articles (43.2%) was the most contributed institute followed by Tehran University with 20, and Gilan University and Islamic Azad University with 19 authors each. Most of the authors were tending to teamwork and co-produced of scientific works so that 75.4% of articles have been published through multi authorship cooperation while 36.7% have been written by three authors. The research hypothesis, "the existence of positive relation between published articles and co-authorship in Rostaniha journal" has been confirmed by 774%.

One of the theories applicable to the Holy Quran is the theory of Michel Cuipers, who has introduced a new approach to the order and coherence of the Quran by using the method of symmetrical and inverse order. He divides the text into different levels, then divides the various forms of symmetry, i.e., sequential parallelism, contradictory parallelism, authorial or evolutionary parallelism, axial order or circular composition, inverse order or mirror composition, and photographic contrast with the help of convergent authorial indicators. It discusses and examines duality, synonymy, contradiction, similarity, repetition or similarity, phonetics or consonantal allegory, morphological similarities, and identical syntactic structure. After explaining the theory, its comprehensiveness and efficiency have been examined in Surah Al-Hadid by applying the rules provided by Cuipers, and it is concluded that the rules mentioned cannot be applied to all verses in this Surah at sub-section, section, and part levels, but they can be applied to all verses at maghta' and mafsal levels.