نشریه علم سنجی کاسپین
سال نهم شماره 2 (پاییز و زمستان 1401)

The advancement of science has long been the goal of wisdom. Throughout history, the publication of the works of scholars has been used as an instrument to promote science among those interested in knowledge. It is important to review the publications promoting science to understand the reasons for their gradual deletion from the promotion of science in Iran. In the past, the publication of scientific-promotional publications formed a basis for the dissemination of information published in the scientific and professional community, at the public level and to the general public. The tendency of journals to become former scientific-research journals has led to the disappearance of the status of scientific-promotional journals. The advancement of science and its popularization are very important, and it seems that there is a serious criticism of the lack of scientific- promotional publications among Iranian publications. Scientific-promotional publications are always needed, as they are a valuable means of disseminating human knowledge to a wide audience, and it seems that the problem of the lack of such publications should be more closely studied and researched. In disseminating science in the language of the people and popularizing science, it is necessary to publish promotional publications.

Considering the lack of comprehensive research to study the structure of Iranian biotechnology field, the aim of this study was to monitor the social structure of Iranian biotechnological sciences using the social network analysis approach based on the scientific outputs of Iranians and to map the scientific communication network of the most important and active authors of Iran.

This applied descriptive study was conducted with a scientometric approach, using the method of creating a scientific map. The study population was all scientific articles related to the field of biotechnology in the Web of Science Core Collection during 1984-2017. First, keywords related to biotechnology during the mentioned period, i.e. 1984-2017, were searched in the advanced search of the database and the results were limited to Iran. The number of articles found based on the search strategy used was 22034 scientific backgrounds. Descriptive statistics based on social network analysis indicators were used to analyze the data, and CiteSpace software was used to create the structure and analyze the data.

According to the results of this research, the trend of increasing scientific production from 2005 to 2011 was very fast, from 2012 to 2013 it was moderate, and from 2014 to 2016 it was considered fast. The quantitative expansion of scientific output in the field of Iranian biotechnology also led to a social structure and network among the actors in this field, who knew each other well and established national and international scientific communication among themselves. To show the social structure of this field, 144 influential national and international scientific personalities who were effective in Iranian scientific production in the field of biotechnology were presented graphically according to their activities in 5-year periods.

The active researchers in this field can be divided into 40 working groups, the most important of which are human, microbial and genetic biotechnology, medical biotechnology, cancer biotechnology and cell culture.

One of the indicators of the development of any country is the volume of its scientific and technological production at the national and international levels. The aim of this study was to evaluate the scientific output of postgraduate students at the Health School of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences during the period 2010-2019.

This descriptive-documentary study was conducted using scientometric methods. The statistical population included published articles extracted from dissertations of postgraduate students of the Faculty of Health in WOS, Scopus, Medline and other databases during 2010-2019. After extraction, data were analyzed using Excel 2013 and SPSS 21 through descriptive and inferential statistics (t-test and analysis of variance). A value level of 0.05 was considered significant.

At the master's level, of 270 dissertations reviewed, 166 (61.5%) ones and at the Ph.D. level, of 30 defended dissertations, 22 (73.3%) ones resulted in the publication of articles. The number of published articles per capita of Shiraz School of Health master's and doctoral students was 0.77 (moderate) and 1.16 (acceptable), respectively. A total of 243 articles were published out of the 300 postgraduate dissertations reviewed. Of all published articles, 138 (57%), 26 (11%), 21 (8%), and 58 (24%) were published in WOS, Scopus, PubMed, and other indexes, respectively. Statistical test analysis showed that there was no significant difference between articles published per capita and gender of researchers
(p= 0.666). The highest per capita percentage of articles published per dissertation was in Environmental Health Engineering (1.2), Occupational Health and Safety Engineering (1.12) and Biology and Control of Disease (1.10) Departments, respectively during 2010-2013.

The scientific output of postgraduate dissertations at the Shiraz School of Health was average and similar to that of other universities in the country.

The professional ethics of librarianship consist of methods and behaviors that increase client desire for a library. One of the variables that results from professional ethics is social adjustment. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social adjustment and professional ethics of librarians working in the libraries of Tehran Universities of Medical Sciences.

This descriptive survey study was conducted based on correlation method. The statistical population of the study included all librarians working in the libraries of Tehran Universities of Medical Sciences, and 175 persons were selected as a sample using the available sampling method and based on Morgan's table. A social compatibility questionnaire and a professional ethics questionnaire were used to collect data. Data were analyzed using SPSS 22 through one-sample t-tests, independent t-test, ANOVA and regression analysis.

The results showed that there was a positive and significant relationship between social adjustment and professional ethics (Sig<0.05). The results of the regression analysis indicated that 47% of the components of the social adjustment were able to predict the level of professional ethics of librarians (Sig<0.05). The study of demographic variables also represented that gender, age, and education level had no effect on librarians’ social adjustment and professional ethics. Social adjustment in the hospital library and professional ethics of librarians in the university library also had a higher average.

Considering the status of the components of social adjustment and professional ethics, the question of how librarians should be employed in university libraries, especially in universities of medical sciences, is an important issue that requires the serious attention of the authorities.

Nursing is one of the most important fields of medical sciences, and its development has a great impact on health care. Since one of the indicators of the development of a field or profession is the scientific studies, the aim of this study was to evaluate the scientific studies focusing on the concept of leadership in nursing.

The study was conducted using a mapping method, and the scientometric analysis was performed using 1098 articles from the Web of Science (WoS) between 2000 and 2020. The existing conceptual structure and patterns in the field of leadership research as well as the interpretation of the relationship between the keywords used in the research papers were extracted and analyzed using VOSviewer.

Analysis of the data indicated that the number of articles in leadership showed an increasing trend from 2000 to 2020, indicating researchers' interest in leadership in nursing. The most frequency cited journals were from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, as well as from the Universities of London, Michigan, Harvard, Washington, and King's College London, respectively. The most international collaborations in publishing high-quality articles were in the United States, China, the United Kingdom, and Australia. In the treasury of keywords appearing in the titles and abstracts of the articles related to leadership, through the review of the data obtained from the scientometric mapping, it was possible to find that the words related to the concept of leadership, the words "nursing leadership, leadership, nursing, transformational leadership, authentic leadership, care Health, nurses, qualitative research, job satisfaction, hospital, education, management, participation" were the most used.

Based on the data presented, it can be concluded that, first, attention to the concept of leadership in nursing has increased over time. Second, the concept of leadership is more closely related to mental concepts, which highlights the need to pay attention to mental and linguistic concepts and approaches in leadership research.

The aim of this study was to determine the status of scientific productions of Jundi-Shapur University of Technology (JSUT) in Scopus database in order to provide the opportunity to increase the scientific productions of the university and improve its rank by determining its research performance and applying the necessary strategies.

The survey was conducted based on the scientometric approach using VOSviewer. The population included 308 scientific productions with affiliation JUST, indexed in the Scopus database from beginning to 2021. To collect data, the word "Dezful" was first searched in the Scopus database and then the results were limited to JSUT and the years considered. Excel and VOSviewer were used to collect and extract the data, which were analyzed using statistical methods and tests such as U Mann-Whitney.

The highest growth rate of JUST scientific productions was observed in 2008, 2010 and 2019 with 200, 150 and 100, respectively, and the average growth rate was 52.53. The predominant co-authorship pattern of JSUT researchers was the pattern of 3 authors, the collaboration degree was 0.961, and the collaboration index was 3.19. The most prolific author was Reza Nikandish (45 article in Scopus), the most cited authors were Mohammad Reza Assari and Alireza Keramat, the highest involvement in scientific products was associated with Amirkabir University, and the most scientific collaborations were with England. In addition, there was a significant difference between the proportion of women and men in the scientific production of JSUT (P-value = 0.013).

Although the trend of JUST’s scientific production and its citation rate has been accompanied by ups and downs, it has developed well in recent years. Moreover, it seems that its scientific collaborations with local and international researchers have been effective in increasing the number of articles and its citation rate.

Article retraction is a sustainable tool to protect the authenticity of scientific texts. The aim of this study was to compare the nature of open access and non-open access articles with the retraction rate of Iranian researchers.

This applied descriptive study was carried out using scientometric indicators. The research population was the retracted articles by Iranian researchers during the period from 2000 to 2021 in the Web of Science Core Collection database (313 articles).

The number of retracted articles was 313, which has increased in recent years. However, the ratio of retracted articles to total articles has not increased. The results also showed that after the date of retraction, although the number of citations of publications with both accesses decreased, the probability of open access articles being cited after retraction was about 1.1 times that of non-open access articles.

Retracted open access articles are about 1.2 times more likely to be cited compared to non-open access articles.

In today's world, organizations urgently need to share knowledge in social networks in order to move toward knowledge orientation and achieve competitive advantage. The aim of the present study was to identify the key components of social networks for knowledge sharing.

This descriptive-combined study was conducted using Delphi technique and content analysis. The statistical population of this study consisted of the faculty members of information science and philology in the public universities of Iran, 20 of whom were included in the panel. Claizi method was used to analyze the data in the first round of Delphi, and descriptive statistics (mean and percentage) as well as Excel and SPSS 25 were used to analyze the statistical data in the second round of Delphi.

The identified key components of social networks include the usefulness component and the functions of using social networks with 29 items, of which the most important is the information sharing item with an average of 6.81, the component of problems and challenges of using social networks has 26 items, the most important item is filtering and certain access to some social networks with an average of 5.6, the component of the purpose of using social networks has 57 items, including the speed of information dissemination and transmission with an average of 6.75, the component of improving people's skills in using social networks (8 items), conducting educational workshops on the use of scientific networks (the most important item, 6.62), and finally the component of trust in social networks (6 items), so the most important item is trust in the accuracy of the information shared in social networks with an average of 6.68.

Among the abovementioned components, the most effective component of social network for knowledge sharing is the component of improving people's skills in using social networks, which should be paid more attention than other components.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory disease with rapid transmission that affects most countries. The aim of the present study was to analyze the citations of COVID-19 research in the Scopus citation database from 2019 to 2021.

This applies study was conducted with a scientometric approach. The research population was 4269 research articles published in the field of COVID-19 during 2019-2021. VOSviewer, UCINET, and Excel were used to map and analyze the citation network.

In the Scopus database, the most frequently cited articles at COVID-19 related to China. The United States had the largest number of articles in this field assigned to COVID-19 with 467 articles. Li Y, Li X, and Wang J scored the highest in rank centrality, closeness index, and intermediate index, respectively. Iranian researchers have had the most international collaboration with the countries of North America, Europe, and China.

The countries of America and China have contributed the most in this field in terms of both article production and citations. Due to the co-authorship with these countries, Iran is also in the first and best cluster in the world.

"Technology roadmap" and "technology portfolio" are among the most widely used and popular tools in the field of management research, technology and innovation policy. The aim of the current study was to identify and evaluate the coordinates of these two concepts based on scientometric indices.

The present study was conducted using scientometric indicators based on scientific documents extracted from the Web of Science and some scientometric software such as the VOSviewer, without affecting the data.

The results showed that despite the differences in history and application, the two aforementioned concepts followed a similar path for some indicators, but their differences for other indicators were due to different factors such as the type of research (quantitative or qualitative), the object of study, the environment, and the expected objectives. The findings of the current study indicated that despite the larger number of published documents on the technology portfolio concept (4073 documents) compared to the technology roadmap concept (3475 documents) in the last 20 years, the volume of international communication and the number of active countries under the technology roadmap concept were much higher than under the technology portfolio concept.

The most commonly used topics of the two concepts differ from each other in other areas despite their similarities in areas such as energy sources, business, environmental and technological sciences, and green sustainable sciences. Although the trend of using both concepts had exceptions in some years, it is generally increasing over time.