Scientometrics
Seyyed HabibOlAllah Tabatabaiean; Payam Hanafizadeh; Hamed HajiMirzaei
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Background and objectivesThe purpose of the present study is to draw a thematic map of articles in the field of digital content industry with a focus on children and adolescents and to identify the emphasized points and gaps in this field. MethodologyThis research is applied and with the method of social ...
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Background and objectivesThe purpose of the present study is to draw a thematic map of articles in the field of digital content industry with a focus on children and adolescents and to identify the emphasized points and gaps in this field. MethodologyThis research is applied and with the method of social network analysis as one of the tools of scientometric studies, has drawn a science map of the field of digital content. In drawing a thematic map, the use of publishing support is necessary. For this purpose, researchers needed to analyze the content of articles written in the field of digital content industry. The research community is all articles in the field of digital content indexed in the Scopus citation database until February 2019. The Scopus citation database has relative uniformity in all disciplines and has better coverage in this area than other databases.findingsEducation-related keywords, as well as content production and distribution tools, have the highest rank in terms of degree centrality index. This means that education and production and distribution technologies play a significant role in a significant part of the work done in this area. For example, the degree of centrality of the keyword Education is 96, which indicates the relationship of this keyword with 96 keywords out of 115 network nodes, and therefore the educational aspect of digital content plays a significant role in research done so far. Also, the keyword Digital Device with a degree of 70 degree, indicates the significant role of digital tools in various research topics in this field.As can be seen in the thematic map as well as the tables related to the indicators of centrality, the most important keywords are more focused on the field of education, cyberspace and digital content production tools as well as the distribution platforms of these products.
Scientometrics
Rouhallah Khademi
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Background and Objectives: Recent years have seen tremendous growth in international collaboration between researchers around the world. This phenomenon and its benefits are considered by the scientific policymakers. There are many forms of scientific collaboration and co-authorship is one of the most ...
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Background and Objectives: Recent years have seen tremendous growth in international collaboration between researchers around the world. This phenomenon and its benefits are considered by the scientific policymakers. There are many forms of scientific collaboration and co-authorship is one of the most sensible, documented, and standard forms. The purpose of this study was to study and map the scientific cooperation of Semnan University researchers at the international rank.
Methodology: Data was gathered from documents indexed on WoS core collection. The authors were those who mentioned Semnan University as their affiliation. This study covered a period from 1900 to 2018. Thus, 3973 documents were collected. According to the purpose of this study, we only used university to university and country to country coauthor. We also chose documents that were prepared in collaboration with researchers from Semnan University and a researcher from foreign universities. We used VOSviewer, Ucinet and NetDraw software to analyze social networks, extract centrality measures, and map social networks.
Findings: The findings showed that Hanyang, Malaya, Daejin and Gyeongsang Natl universities have the highest number of co-authors with Semnan University (Degree). The universities of Malaya, Texas A&M, King Abdulaziz, Hanyang, and Kebangsaan Malaysia ranked in the top according to ncloseness. The universities of Malaya, King Abdulaziz, Texas A&M, and Hanyang had the highest betweenness. In total, Semnan University has had the largest number of co-authors with universities in the United States, South Korea, Canada, Malaysia, and Poland. A study of the growth of scientific productions of Semnan University researcher’s co-author with foreign universities indicates that despite some ups and downs, there is an increasing trend. The highest number of collaborations was done in 2018. A review of scientific journals that published co-authored papers with foreign researchers found that THE JOURNAL OF INEQUALITIES AND APPLICATIONS and JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS topped the list. Mathematics and engineering were the most popular topics in international co-authored documents and Gorji was a prominent Semnan University researcher in international co-authorship.
Discussion: This study showed that Semnan University researchers had appropriate co-authorship with researchers from different countries and universities in the fields of engineering and basic sciences, but humanities researchers have not been very active in this regard.
Ali Mansouri; Fatemeh Zarmehr; Marjan Kazemi
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Background and Objectives: Considering the importance of social capital, much effort has been made to quantify and measure social capital in organizations such as research and academic institutions and services (Nasr Esfahani, Ansari, Shamei and Agha Hosseini, 2011, p. 110). One of the methods for measuring ...
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Background and Objectives: Considering the importance of social capital, much effort has been made to quantify and measure social capital in organizations such as research and academic institutions and services (Nasr Esfahani, Ansari, Shamei and Agha Hosseini, 2011, p. 110). One of the methods for measuring social capital in research and service organizations is the analysis of the network of scientific cooperation and the study of the degree of coherence of the scientific cooperation network (Abbasi, Vigand and Hossein, 2014). In this regard, there are also two perspectives on social networking that describe the sources of social capital in the social structure. Coleman's theory (1988) has proved that social capital is essentially a result of cohesion that facilitates trust and cooperation among individuals. Another theory was raised by Barrett (1992) and created the creation of social capital through betweenness opportunities created by different nodes.The institution of public libraries of the country as a research and service organization and because of its relationship with the community and human factors can be_ with more social capital _more successfully go along with its missions in the society, and the social capital existing in the organization results in coherence and the coherence of the people inside the organization and facilitate the achievement of the goals of the organization; And since the determination of the amount of social capital of the public libraries of the country has not been accomplished through scientific cooperation within the organization, the present study examines the amount of social capital through the analysis of the network of scientific cooperation in the institution of public libraries of the country as an institution Research - Services.Methodology: The current research is applied and descriptive-exploratory. Using a social network analysis approach, the relationship between writers and institutions was studied in the form of scientific collaboration in the staff of the public libraries institution. In the analysis of the way employees collaborated, central social indicators were used according to the social network analysis approach. Centrality is a concept used for analyzing networks and has different types that are used based on the definition of the problem and the purpose of the research. But in general, centralization is used to identify and identify the most important actors in the network. The research population includes all the staff of the institution of libraries in the country that has scientific output and has been published in scientific publications or conferences and has been registered at the Research and Training Office of the Public Libraries of the country as their scientific record. The information in the form of a list of 1,460 scientific outputs from the Public Library Public Library Office of the country was received in Excel format, which was reduced to 1352 after clearing and removing duplicates. To analyze the data, the UCnet software and its complementary package, namely NetDraw, were used for the preparation of co-authorship matrices using Rawormatrix and Excel software.Findings: The findings of the research showed that the network coherence of the authorship of the staff of the Iranian public libraries is 0.01 which represents the maximum scientific communication among 1% of the staff of this organization. Also, according to the network analysis, in relation to each of the indicators of centrality of degree, betweenness and the closeness, the role of the staff of the institution of public libraries are only 35%, 20% and 25%, respectively.The results showed that the social capital resulting from the scientific collaboration within the organization is small because, given the low density of the network, which is equal to 0.01, the network has a low degree of cohesion and, therefore, relying on Coleman's theory that social capital essentially results from coherence, which facilitates trust and cooperation among individuals, it can be argued that social capital resulting from scientific cooperation in this organization is small. And with the results of Li et al (2013) and Costa (2014) is aligned. The most central and most contributing authors are Riahi, Pazoki, Sohbatiha, OJaghi, Saberi and Latifi, who have the highest degree of co-authorship. Highly central nodes, as they play an important role in conveying content and attracting new people to the network, are considered as social capital whose elimination reduces the structure of the social network and reduces its coherence (Erfanmanesh and Arshadi, 1394). Accordingly, it should be noted that the amount of social capital formed and the result of scientific cooperation among the 35% of the central and influential employees can be claimed to have been derived from the calculation of the degree centrality.Also, according to Barrett's (1992) theory of the formation of social capital from the betweenness opportunities created by different nodes, betweenness centrality is used as another indicator in determining the degree of cohesion and as a result of social capital and according to the results of the research, it can be concluded that the amount of social capital formed from this opportunity is the result of the activity of 20% of employees who have played a betweenness role.Discussion: In the context of the reasons for the limited scientific collaboration, the staff of the public libraries office, according to the results, should be said that most of the collaboration of the institution is the result of scientific cooperation with individuals outside the organization, especially the universities of their time of studying. As in the analysis of inter-organizational cooperation, the results also showed that the most scientific collaboration has been between the public libraries of Iran and the University of Isfahan. In justifying this, it can also be said that the experience of scientific cooperation in the period of study and the recognition and trust formed in the network of cooperation since that time has led to the subsequent publication of the same people. The research findings of Rahimi and Fattahi (2010) also showed that environmental, individual and process-based deterrence factors are effective in reducing the amount of scientific collaboration within the organization (Rahimi & Fatahi, 2010).Deterrent structural factors such as misunderstandings about the way of cooperation, and environmental deterrents such as lack of cooperative spirit in the organization, lack of funding of the budget, the climate of discrimination and lack of incentives, inhibitors such as reputational factors, differences in knowledge and experience and distrust and so on. In fact, mutual trust between individuals has been recognized as one of the most important factors affecting the level of scientific cooperation (same, 2010).
