Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Professor, Knowledge and Information Science Department, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz. Iran
2 Ph.D Student,, Department of Knowledge and Information Science, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
Abstract
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.
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