نشریه علم سنجی کاسپین
سال دهم شماره 1 (بهار و تابستان 1402)

Civil engineering is one of the oldest and most extensive engineering professions. The aim of this study was to analyze the descriptive and content structure of scientific productions of Iranian researchers in the field of civil engineering in the Web of Science (WoS) during 2013-2022.

The statistical population of this quantitative, applied, descriptive and analytical study consisted all scientific productions of Iranian scientists in the field of civil engineering in WoS during the years 2013-2022. This study was carried out by the scientometric method, using VOSviewer software to draw scientific maps and Excel and SPSS software to analyze the data. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was used to determine whether the data were normal or not, and the research hypotheses were tested with the Spearman correlation coefficient.

Most documents were published in 2021. Totally, 99.9% of the documents are written in English. The leading Iranian authors in this field are Ali Kaveh with the highest number of scientific productions (188), Mehdi Shariati with the highest number of citations (4917 citations) and Omid Bozorg-Haddad with the highest total linkage strength (230). Optimization (total linkage strength=689) was the most important in the network and the degree of centrality. There was also a significant relationship between the number of documents and the number of citations of the participating universities/organizations in the production of scientific documents in the field of civil engineering in the WoS (p< 0.001).

There was a significant relationship between the number of documents and the number of citations of Iranian authors in the field of civil engineering in the WoS. Moreover, Islamic Azad University is located in the center of the density map of the co-authorship network of universities and institutions in the field of civil engineering, indicating the importance of this university in the co-authorship network of institutions.

Co-authorship increases the possibility of visibility of articles and reflection of their findings in the research of others. The aim of the present study was to determine the number of authors and the number of citations of hot papers in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E) in the Web of Science (WOS).

This quantitative study was conducted using the scientometric approach. The research community consisted of 3,475 hot papers in the field of science in WOS from 2020 to 2021. The Spearman correlation coefficient test was used to examine the relationship between the citations of the articles and the number of authors. Data were collected and analyzed using BibExcel, Excel, and SPSS.

The hot papers showed a wide range, from one to 2718 authors. Moreover, a significant correlation was found between the number of authors and the number of citations of hot papers in the field of science (p= 0.000, n= 3475, r= 0.161). Therefore, statistically, there was a positive correlation between the two variables.

Higher scientific collaboration in hot articles increases the number of citations and ultimately increases the visibility of these articles.

Financial scholars around the world have published a large number of articles on the financial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis on various sectors of the economy. This article is a critical analysis of the process of publishing articles in this field in Iran.

This applied study was conducted based on bibliometrics. The statistical population of the study included all articles published in the financial journals approved by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology in the financial field of the coronavirus pandemic in Iran from February 2020 to January 2023. The research data were also collected using a checklist and analyzed using Excel software.

While the crisis of COVID-19 provided researchers with many and varied study opportunities in the financial field of COVID-19 pandemic, the results of this study showed that Iranian researchers were able to publish only seven articles in this field in 11 scientific journals approved by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology in the educational discipline of finance with different trends in Iran.

Iranian universities have failed to publish articles related to the financial field of COVID-19 pandemic, and research in this field has been limited to a few specific issues and other important financial topics have been ignored.

One of the important applications of scientometrics is the drawing scientific maps, which is done using various techniques, including co-citation. The aim of this study was to draw a scientific map or the intellectual structure of the sponsorship in sports in the Web of Science (WoS).

This scientometric study was conducted using co-citation analysis. The statistical population of the current study was all research articles in the field of sponsorship in sports during 2002-2022, indexed in the WoS and used the keyword "Sponsorship in sports". After the data were extracted from the database, they were analyzed using the VOSviewer software and the co-citation method.

The scientific map of sponsorship in sports consists of 5 thematic clusters (sports sponsorship, financial sponsorship, sports, impact and performance) related to financial sponsorship in sports. The number of words studied showed that the topics published in the journal had a diverse thematic distribution. The distribution graph of vocabulary degree was of power type, indicating that a large number of words co-occur in different articles and a smaller number of words located at the end of the degree distribution graph or at the beginning of it had few co-occurrences of words. In addition, based on the number of societies formed, it was found that the authors of the articles tended to form small scientific groups in the form of universities or research institutes of their respective organizations.

Foreign research considers the existence of a competitive structure in the economy of countries as a driving factor for the development of financial support for sports, but domestic research has examined the factors that prevent the attraction of financial support.

Sharing resources and facilities, leveraging each other's experiences, and enabling interdisciplinary research are the benefits of co-authorship. The aim of this study was to investigate the co-authorship status of the scientific productions by Afghan researchers to plan the expansion of collaboration and employment of these researchers in migration destination countries, especially Iran.

This quantitative study examined 2732 articles indexed in Scopus with at least one Afghan author from the beginning of indexing in Scopus to September 2021. Statistical methods and analysis of the co-authorship network were used to analyze the data, via Python 3 language and VOSviewer 1.6.17 and Gephi 0.9.2.

The most scientific outputs of Afghan researchers are devoted to the writings of the medical field with 40.41%. The next scientific fields with a large difference are social sciences (15.67%), biological sciences (11.16%), and engineering (10.94%), respectively. The co-authorship network of Afghan researchers and their colleagues consisted of 13,379 nodes (researchers) and 2,511,879 weighted edges (co-author relationships). Afghan researchers collaborated most frequently with researchers from the United States. Iran, despite its geographic and cultural proximity, ranks fourth among its colleagues. America is followed by England and India.

Co-authorship varies among researchers in different scientific fields. The median number of authors of each article in dentistry, biochemistry and other majors close to medicine and basic sciences was about three times that of theoretical majors such as social sciences, arts and humanities.

The combination of ontology-based retrieval systems leads to the semantic retrieval of words. The aim of this study was to review ontology articles in information retrieval using scientometric techniques.

The present study was conducted using the documentary method and word cluster analysis. The research population comprised 2595 articles indexed in two databases, Scopus and Web of Science, from 2001 to 2023. The data were analyzed using Excel, BibExcel, SPSS 26 and UCINET. VOSviewer was used to draw research maps.

The growth of articles in ontology and information retrieval was low and the annual growth rate averaged 0.11%.Stanford and California universities were the most prolific organizations, contributing to 6 articles, and the field of computer science was the most prolific with 43% of the articles written. The word clustering led to the formation of 4 thematic clusters: semantic retrieval of information, non-human ontology, classification of systems, and role of technology. In addition, there was a positive correlation between science production and centralities (degree centrality 0.323, closeness centrality 0.278, and betweenness centrality 0.447).

The evolution of the words used in the articles has shown that although the growth of article production in this field has increased from the beginning, the development of ontology technologies in information retrieval started with a weak semantic system called information classification, and after the various stages of development, it now uses machine learning to understand user requirements and process information with the help of artificial intelligence.

Art therapy is a form of treatment using simple art materials. Due to the importance of this topic, many researches have been conducted in this field in recent years. Evaluating most-cited art therapy articles as the most influential articles contributes to our greater knowledge about research, topics and trends in this topic. Therefore, the aim of this research was altmetric analysis of 100 most-cited papers related to art therapy.

In this study, bibliometric information of 100 most-cited in the field of art therapy indexed in the Scopus database was analyzed. Then, the disease/community information was examined in each study and finally, altmetric information including data related to different functions of five categories of PlumX (Usage, Capture, Mention, Social media and Citation) was extracted and analyzed.

More than 50% of articles were published in three journals. 60 authors from 17 countries and 155 different organizations participated in compiling these articles. A review of 100 most-cited articles showed that many studies of art interventions have been used for various diseases, especially various types of cancers and mental disorders. Among the five groups of altmetric indicators, the index of "Usage" is in the first rank and the indices of "Capture" and "Citation" are in the second and third ranks, respectively. The indicators of "Social media" and "Mention" have the lowest level.

Art therapy interventions for cancer and mental disorders have received more attention from researchers, while the implementation of art therapy interventions for other diseases such as AIDS, asthma and autism was limited.

The present research aims to study the status of publications and scientific collaboration and word co-occurrence networks in the field of psychology in Iran, focusing on the top 10 universities using the Scopus database.

The research method used is descriptive and based on a bibliometric study. A sample of 1968 documents in the field of psychology from 1969 to 2022 was examined. VOSviewer software was utilized to visualize bibliometric networks.

The results showed an increasing trend in the number of publications over time, with research articles having the highest number of publications, while review articles received the highest number of citations. University of Tehran, Kharazmi University, and Shahid Beheshti University were identified as the main centers for psychological research in Iran. The United States was considered the most important international collaborator. The author collaboration network consisted of professors, students, and graduates from the top 10 universities in Iran, as well as researchers from various countries, with Alireza Moradi and Nima Ghorbani being recognized as important individuals in the author network. The co-occurrence network of keywords revealed three main domains: effectiveness evaluation of interventions, personality and measurement of psychological aspect, and psychological pathology and mental health. The top five trending topics included procedures, treatment outcomes, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychology, and humans.

The results of this study indicate that the publications in the field of psychology in Iran in the international journals have achieved significant quantitative and qualitative growth. However, the role and importance of top universities in Iran in the dissemination of these publications is not uniform.