Ali Akbar Khasseh; Heidar Mokhtari; Mahere Asheghi Moaf
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Nowadays, bibliometrics has been an interdisciplinary field with all scientific fields as its scope. The present study is related to the scientometric study of articles in information retrieval produced in Iran from the beginning of the topic in Persian papers to 2019. This research was an applied research ...
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Nowadays, bibliometrics has been an interdisciplinary field with all scientific fields as its scope. The present study is related to the scientometric study of articles in information retrieval produced in Iran from the beginning of the topic in Persian papers to 2019. This research was an applied research which has been done using scientometric techniques such as citation analysis and co-word analysis. The data required for this research have been extracted from the "Islamic World Science Citation" database. The statistical population was 395 articles in the field of information retrieval, which was analyzed using "BibExcel," "VOSviewer," and " Excel" software packages. Some inconsistencies in author names and keywords have been tried to be unified. There was an increasing trend in published papers and received citations. Highly-cited and most influential authors in the field are well-known in the field. "Rahmatullah Fattahi" is in the first place with 11 articles and 16 citations. 77.72% of the articles have been authored in groups (two or more authors) and the two-authored approach with 154 articles has the most co-authorship approach. Six hundred twenty-six authors participated in writing the articles, which were repeated 923 times in various articles. The largest co-authorship network consists of 27 nodes (authors). "Najla Hariry," "Farideh Osareh," and "Saeed Rezaei Sharifabadi" have the highest score in terms of the centrality of rank, intermediate, and closeness among other researchers, respectively. The keywords "information retrieval," "search engines" and "internet" were the most frequently used keywords in the field of information retrieval. The word pairs of "recall - retrieval accuracy" and "Internet - search engines" were the first and second most frequent pairs of co-occurring-word pairs, respectively. Thematic clustering of articles in this field indicates the existence of eight subject clusters: "search, processing and evaluation information," "Storage and retrieval in information systems," "information behavior," "indexing," "information management and Scientometrics," "search engines," "precision and recall" and "information literacy." Co-authorship network showed that authors in the field tended to author with collaborating each other. Considerable items on information retrival have been published in Persian The acceptance of the co-authorship approach in the production of scientific works in information retrieval indicates the willingness of authors to write co-authored research. However, considering that 54.9% of the authors of this study did not receive the H index, the authors should make more efforts to produce quality articles. The largest cluster of this research is the "search, processing and evaluation information" cluster, which indicates the importance of this issue in information retrieval, and the smallest cluster is the "information literacy" cluster, which needs further research in this research field. The study helps authors identify hot topics and highly-considered subjects in information retrieval and provide a pattern for conducting scientometric analyses in similar fields.
Younes Nobakht; Maryam Nobakht
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Scientometric studies provide a picture of the flow of production, dissemination, and utilization of science to managers at different levels of research and implementation to plan accordingly in the relevant field. The purpose of this article was to study the scientometrics of earnings management research ...
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Scientometric studies provide a picture of the flow of production, dissemination, and utilization of science to managers at different levels of research and implementation to plan accordingly in the relevant field. The purpose of this article was to study the scientometrics of earnings management research in Iran. The research is applied and has been done using the quantitative content analysis method. The statistical population of research includes all scientific journals in the educational disciplines of accounting and finance that have published articles in this field. The research time limit was also 26 years from 1992 to early 2018. The research findings reveal that with a distance of 37 years from other countries, earnings management research in Iran started in 2003. With 14% of the total, real earnings management-related research also has a small share of this type of research in Iran. The modified Jones model (1991) with 56% in the section of accrual earnings management models and the Roychowdhury model (2006) with 55% in the real earnings management models section have been used more by researchers than other earnings management discovery models. From the total of 7012 references cited in the articles, 73% were English, and 27% were Persian. Anyway, given the importance of the issue, the small number of studies conducted in this field, especially in real earnings management, emphasizes the need to pay more attention to this field, which is done to prevent and detect earnings management.
Maryam Nobakht; Younes Nobakht
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Content analysis of journals by identifying the characteristics of the information recorded in the articles helps the editors of the journals to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the journal. The objective of this research is to study the knowledge and content flow of articles in the journal of ...
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Content analysis of journals by identifying the characteristics of the information recorded in the articles helps the editors of the journals to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the journal. The objective of this research is to study the knowledge and content flow of articles in the journal of accounting knowledge as one of the most prestigious scientific publications in the field of accounting knowledge in Iran from the beginning of 2005 to the end of 2019. This research is a scientometrics study and using the content analysis method (quantitative approach). The population of the study consisted of all the articles published in the journal that were all selected as a statistical sample. The research data were also collected using a checklist tool and statistical analysis using Excel software. Findings of the research show that in 285 articles published during these years, 696 authors have contributed, of which MA degree with 34% and assistant professors with 30% are at the top of the table are the authors of this journal. Among the universities and educational institutions, Shiraz University is ranked first with 25 articles, and the University of Tehran is ranked second with 34 articles. In terms of topic orientation, 83% of the publications are in the field of financial accounting and auditing with 10% in the next rank. From the total 8179 references cited in the articles, 73% were in English and 27% in Persian.
Younes Nobakht; Maryam Nobakht
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Purpose: The objective of this research is to study the knowledge and content of the articles of two quarterly journal of accounting advances as one of the top scientific publications in the field of accounting knowledge in Iran from the beginning of 2005 to the end of 2018.Metholdology: This research ...
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Purpose: The objective of this research is to study the knowledge and content of the articles of two quarterly journal of accounting advances as one of the top scientific publications in the field of accounting knowledge in Iran from the beginning of 2005 to the end of 2018.Metholdology: This research is a scientometrics study and using content analysis method (quantitative approach). The population of the study consisted of all the articles published in the journal that were all selected as statistical sample (N = 170). The research data were also collected using a checklist tool and statistical analyzed using Excel software.Findings: Findings of the research show that in 170 articles published during these years, 417 authors participated, of which 354 were men and 63 women were women. Considering the level of education and scientific ranking of the authors, MA degree with 33% and assistant professors with 29% are in the top of the ranking list of authors. In the meantime, 3% of articles have only one author and 97% are the results of grouping work. Among the universities and scientific centers, Shiraz university with 48 articles ranked first and university of Esfahan with 15 papers ranked second. In terms of topic orientation, 79% of the publications are in the field of financial accounting and auditing with 11%, in the next rank. From total of 5864 references cited in the articles, 72% were in English and 28% in Persian.
Somayeh Jafari; Raziyeh Farshid; Esmaeel Mostafavi
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This study aims to analyze and compare the research process of Information and Knowledge Organization field’s in the web of science. Methodology: This study is an applied descriptive, with a scientometric approach (co-word analysis and network analysis). The research data is the field of information ...
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This study aims to analyze and compare the research process of Information and Knowledge Organization field’s in the web of science. Methodology: This study is an applied descriptive, with a scientometric approach (co-word analysis and network analysis). The research data is the field of information and knowledge organization in the web of science. Histcit, UCINet and BibExell softwares are used for data analysis and VOSviewer for mapping. Results: In the last two decades, 8688 works have been indexed by 15139 authors from 110 countries in the web of science. Iran is ranked 24th between 79 works. United States had the most scientific production in the world. Hjorland B. and Leydesdorff L., and in Iran, Alipour-Hafizi and Kousha have received the most productions and citations, respectively. The field of computer science had the largest share in the production of works. The universities of Illinois and the Islamic Azad University have had the largest participation. The most common were vocabulary information retrieval, classification, metadata and digital libraries. The vocabulary of works formed 7 clusters in the world and 5 clusters in Iran. The most important thematic trends in the world, extracting information from social and big data networks, users tagging, RDA, RDF, FRBR, digital libraries and taxonomies and in Iran FRBR, digital libraries, fuzzy information retrieval, ontology and cloud computing, respectively.Conclusion: Analyzing and comparing the results of this field leads to a better understanding of the prevailing trends and discourse and is a roadmap for education and research in the country.
Younes Nobakht
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AbstractPurpose: The purpose of this article is to scientometrics study of scientific production of the journal of tax research as the only scientific journal of the field of tax knowledge in Iran. Metholdology: This research is an applied research and is based on content analysis methodology. The ...
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AbstractPurpose: The purpose of this article is to scientometrics study of scientific production of the journal of tax research as the only scientific journal of the field of tax knowledge in Iran. Metholdology: This research is an applied research and is based on content analysis methodology. The data were collected by using checklist tool and statistical analysis has been done via Excel software and the range of research time is 10 years from 2008 to early 2018. Findings: Findings have been showed that during the years studied, 626 authors contributed to the production of 273 articles, of which 484 were men and 142 women. considering the level of education and scientific ranking of the authors, MA degree with 42% and assistant professors with 28% are in the top of the ranking list of authors. In the meantime, 15% of articles have only one author and 85% are the results of grouping work. Among the universities and scientific centers, Allameh Tabataba'i University with 27 articles ranked first and Islamic Azad University of Central Tehran Branch, along with the Office of Tax Studies and Research, with 16 papers ranked second. Conclusion: It seems that the main reason for the researchers' of the journal attention to issues such as evaluating staff and tax departments as a research topic, ease of access to their information for researchers, but in contrast to these matters, the subject of the assessment is the taxpayer, whose number of researches in the journal shows that the number of these studies is not even among the top 20 researchers. This is while research in this area has an important role in identifying the barriers and problems of the tax system and will help in the future plans of the state in the field of tax revenues. On the other hand, the topic of tax evasion in the third category of research priorities of researchers, suggests a serious problem in this area.
Aidin Asgharzadeh; Ali Gholamzadeh; Saeed Asgharzadeh
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In this article, we studied knowledge and content flows of the three main journals in technology and innovation management field that includes the journal of science and technology policy, journal of innovation management, and technology development management. The purpose of this paper was to investigate ...
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In this article, we studied knowledge and content flows of the three main journals in technology and innovation management field that includes the journal of science and technology policy, journal of innovation management, and technology development management. The purpose of this paper was to investigate knowledge flows of journals and identification their main properties during five years, publications from 1392 to 1396. We attempt to provide for researchers in this field: knowledge flows, main properties in journals and published articles, and also content features of concepts and subjects. This study was done in two sections. At first, we examined knowledge flows and classified subjects of each journals and compared together. In two section we analyzed the data, and compared in industrial field. In during these years, journals have addressed various issues in this fields but the most subject clusters in each journals are; in the journal of science and technology policy journal, politics and economics; in journal of innovation management journal, knowledge management and strategy; and in technology development management journal, industry and technology.
Ali Shaghaghi; Saeid Asadi; Ali Sharafi
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Aim: The aim of this research is to study the place of Middle Eastern countries and to determine the informationally powerful, dependent, and weak states, based on the scientific production and cooperation quartile, in the geopolitics of information. Method: This research is a scientometric one ...
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Aim: The aim of this research is to study the place of Middle Eastern countries and to determine the informationally powerful, dependent, and weak states, based on the scientific production and cooperation quartile, in the geopolitics of information. Method: This research is a scientometric one and objectively applied which has been conducted using documentary methods and content analysis. The research community consists of 16 Middle Eastern countries which have been studied based on their regional and trans-regional scientific production and cooperation between the years 2008 and 2017. The data was extracted from the scopus, the world bank and the Palestine center for statistics databases, and Excel and SPSS software were used for the data analysis. Findings: According to the findings, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Egypt, respectively, are placed the first to fourth in the Middle Eastern geopolitics of information, and by allocating more than 75% of the quartile (Q3) indicators are among the most powerful information countries. The countries, Israel, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Oman, Kuwait, Iraq, and Palestine respectively, are placed fifth to twelfth in the Middle East, and with allocating 25 to 50 percent of the quartile (Q2) indicators make up the community of dependent countries. The four countries of Lebanon, Bahrain, Yemen and Syria, ranked thirteenth to sixteenths in the Middle Eastern geopolitics of information, with assigning 25 percent of the quartile (Q1) indicators form the Middle Eastern weak countries. The findings also show that there is a huge gap between the status of powerful, dependent, and weak Middle Eastern information countries (between the first, second, and third quarters) in the geopolitics of information. Innovation/ value: The value of this research is in determining the powerful, dependent and weak Middle Eastern information countries in the geopolitics of information in terms of innovation and also in being the beginning point of attracting the attention of politicians, researchers and specialists in fields of information science and knowledge, scientometrics, political science, communication science, management, and sociology to conduct better research in the field of geopolitics of information and to identify its components.
Ali Sharafi; Ali Shaghaghi; Mohammadreza Pashang
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The purpose of this study is the content analysis of the books and theses published in informetrics, bibliometrics, scientometrics and webometrics in the world. This study is an applied research. Statistical population consists of 730 English books in the Amazon database and 1069 English theses in the ...
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The purpose of this study is the content analysis of the books and theses published in informetrics, bibliometrics, scientometrics and webometrics in the world. This study is an applied research. Statistical population consists of 730 English books in the Amazon database and 1069 English theses in the Proquest database that were classified in 15-subject categories. Data were collected using checklists and analyzed by Excel. The findings showed that most books in informetrics, bibliometrics, scientometrics and webometrics published around the world are compilations and publication trends are declining and most of their thematic approaches are the analysis of patents, citation analysis, bibliometric and scientific communications. Theses publication trends are also declining and the most of their thematic approaches are scientometric, citation analysis, bibliometric, webometrics, scientific communications and researcher’s performance evaluation; and the least number of thematic approaches of books and theses in the world are informetrics, scientific collaboration, co-citation, co-authorship, information visualization and knowledge, website evaluation and journals’ impact factor. In addition, most researches of informetrics, bibliometrics, scientometrics and webometrics in the world have been done in the fields of computer science, higher education, management, information technology and library and information science and the least have been done in the fields of ethics, history, philosophy, law, women's studies, nanotechnology, psychology, physics, chemistry, religion, math, entrepreneurship, geography, patent analysis, biology, chemistry, ecology and statistics. The results showed that subject of informatics, bibliometrics, scientometrics and webometrics books and theses in the world is based on citation analysis and is of more subject diversity.
Golnessa Galyani-Moghaddam; Hassan Jafari; Ashgar Sattarzadeh
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This research is set to study scientific publications published by faculty members of Allameh Tabatab’i University in two international citation indexes including the Science Citation Index and Scopus. Duration of the study was 1987 till the end of 2015. Scientometrics methods were used to do the ...
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This research is set to study scientific publications published by faculty members of Allameh Tabatab’i University in two international citation indexes including the Science Citation Index and Scopus. Duration of the study was 1987 till the end of 2015. Scientometrics methods were used to do the study. Searches in the mentioned databases were the main tool of data gathering. The results show that the growth rate was 29.49 and 32.51, and density indicator is 0.008 and 0.005 in the Science Citation Index and Scopus respectively. This indicates a low density and low collaboration among authors. Faculty of Management and Accounting was the most productive one. The United States of America and Switzerland were top countries in international scientific collaborations. In addition, scientific collaboration at national level was mostly done by authors from the Islamic Azad University, Tehran University and Amir Kabir University of Technology. There was an overlap of 21 percent among indexed publications by the two databases.
Alihosein Noorafrooz; Reza Vaezi; Seyed Reza Ghodrat
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The present research surveys the scientific publications of Allameh Tabataba’i University since foundation of the university the April communications, by using a scientometric approach. Descriptive method was used and the population was all publications indexed in Scopus. To analyze the data, excel ...
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The present research surveys the scientific publications of Allameh Tabataba’i University since foundation of the university the April communications, by using a scientometric approach. Descriptive method was used and the population was all publications indexed in Scopus. To analyze the data, excel and Nodexi soft wares were used to draw the scientific communication network graph. The results indicated that all of these publications were 279 records in formats such as research articles, conceptual articles, articles presented in conferences, and articles in press. All of these two hundred and seventy nine publications were published in English language. Although the quantity of the publications and the number of citations to these articles especially recently published in comparison with other internal universities significantly is not high, but they generally show an exponential growth and of course according to our findings this growth is owing to the special efforts made by certain scholars of some departments. At the end of the article we presented the solutions for the improvement of Allameh Tabataba'I University publications in future.
Farideh Osareh; Kobra Baba'i
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Purpose: This study sought to use indicators of network analysis to Survey the relationships and co-authorship of 113 articles published in both journals of Child Psychology and exceptional children during 1390-1391. Methodology: This study is a survey of scientometric and analysis of co-authorship networks ...
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Purpose: This study sought to use indicators of network analysis to Survey the relationships and co-authorship of 113 articles published in both journals of Child Psychology and exceptional children during 1390-1391. Methodology: This study is a survey of scientometric and analysis of co-authorship networks in the journal “Psychology of Exceptional Individuals” Allameh Tabataba'i University and Psychology of Exceptional Children. To analyze the data, the UCINET software and complement of package Net draw and to prepare a matrix authors Wide Screen Excel software were used. Also to evaluate the performance of each of the authors' parameters such as network analysis measures, the degree, intermediate measures and proximity measures have been used. Findings: the survey of the authors who had written at least one article in the journal of the psychology of exceptional children indicated that Sharifi Daramadi, Afrooz, Kakoojouybari and Moradi in original cluster (co-authorship) and Golshani Monazah in the Cluster of the twelfth and Seif Naraghi in the ninth clusters have the most important place in co-authorship network researchers. In The Journal of Exceptional Children one can also make Alizadeh, Qobari banab, Karimi and Saadat in the original cluster and Alipur and Mehrabi zade Honarmand in the clusters of tenth. Conclusion: The results showed that relatively little communication is between nodes on the co-authorship networks in two quarterly and integral relationship between large clusters do not exist in the both of Journals and network congestion in the Journal of Psychology of exceptional individuals was 0/01 Percent and in the exceptional Children Journal mention of0/06 percent, which is low in both quarterlies and show little network consistency In two quarterlies.
