State Studies of Contemporary Iran

State Studies of Contemporary Iran

Illustrating the scientific productions of Iranian researchers in the field of political science in the web oscience database

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Athareh naghdinegad 1
sapideh fahimi far 2
Mohammad bagher mokarami pour 3
hajar Mouha 4
1 Doctoral student of Information Science and Political Science, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
2 Assistant professor and faculty member of the Department of Management, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
3 Political Science-Political Studies of the Islamic Revolution-Shahed University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
4 Master's degree, Department of Information Science and Epistemology, Department of Information Science and Epistemology, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
.Purpose: Illustrating scientific productions is one of the ways to know the quantity and quality of scientific productions in different scientific fields. This research was conducted with the aim of analyzing the descriptive and content structure of the scientific productions of Iranian researchers in the field of political science in the Web-Oscience database.

Materials and methods: This research is of an applied type, which was carried out using the scientometric method. Its statistical population is 368 scientific degrees in the field of political science, which have been indexed in the Auscience web database during the years 1990 to 2020. Vaas Viewer and Excel software were used to analyze data and draw scientific maps.

Findings: The growth trend of scientific documents in the field of political science by Iranian researchers in the WebOscience database from 1990 to 2016 has been very small, but it has reached its highest level in 2016, and in the following years, it has grown upward compared to the years before 2016. But compared to 2016, it has grown less.

Conclusion: Although Iran has grown well in terms of scientific production in the field of political science, researchers who have produced more scientific products have not published high-quality articles, and only a small number of researchers have published high-quality articles with high citations.
Keywords
Scientific productions
political science
Iran
scientometrics
web oscience database

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State Studies of Contemporary Iran
Volume 8, Issue 4 - Serial Number 17
Winter
Autumn 2022
Pages 101-131

  • Receive Date 21 December 2022
  • Revise Date 07 February 2023
  • Accept Date 07 May 2023
  • Publish Date 21 April 2023