Background and objective: Nowadays, one of the most important indicators for evaluation of scientific institutions, especially universities, is the number of articles indexed by these institutions in citation databases. One of the main tools for evaluation of scientific production is scientometrics. In fact, it is possible to identify indicators for assessing the status of research in university and its scientific productivity through scientometrics.
Due to the importance of science production in universities and the necessity of measuring the amount of scientific output for comparison of universities at national level, this research tries to measure the scientific output of Shahid Chamran University of Ahwaz at Web of Science database in 2000 to 2016, assess the scientific status of Shahid Chamran University of Ahwaz and then draw on the key clusters of the university and interpret them through Hist software. It thus clarifies the role of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, which is one of the oldest universities of Iran, in scientific production of the country. Therefore, considering the importance of scientific production in the world, the most important question is how much is the contribution of scholars of Shahid Chamran University of Ahwaz to science production at national and international levels in SCI, SSCI, A&HCI How is the collaboration of the authors of Shahid Chamran University at national and international levels in producing scientific evidence? Moreover, the thematic clusters and the historiography map of the scientific production of this university will be drawn through HIST Site software.
Many studies have been carried out to measure scientific productions in field of scientometrics both inside and outside the country. In general, research in the field of scientometrics is so widespread and from various dimensions to the study of the status of scientific products, which, although all under the heading of science, but the factors are different in them. Some of these studies have examined the status of scientific production in a particular geographic area, such as Gomes and colleagues (1995), Mang, Ho and Liu (2006), Extract and Wilson (2003 and 2004), and Nonfiction 1381), each of which deals with the scientific production of a particular country. Some other researches, regardless of geographic location, have examined scientific publications in a specific field, such as Extract (2006), which explores the possibility of international co-authorship in the production of knowledge in the subject of astronomy, and also in 1996 studying and comparing scientific publications in developing countries.
Methodology: The present research is descriptive-analytic and has been done using scientometric method. The research community is all scientific publications related to the authors of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz on the Web site of Science and Technology in 2000-2016. The approach used in this study is based on the use of bibliographic information and citation analysis of articles indexed on the science web site in the time frame in question. In other words, in this research, the name of the author, title, publication status, and also the amount of citations the received data is used to analyze scientific production of researchers and also to draw up a scientific map of this university.
Therefore, using this scientific approach of Shahid Chamran University of Ahwaz, using the citations and group collaboration in these documents, various bibliographic components of this field of research and analysis are presented. The statistical population of the study was 2932 documents available on the science web site. By searching for Iran and limiting it to the name of Shahid Chamran University of Ahwaz in the period 2000 to 2016, among the citation indexes of the sciences, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index were obtained.
Findings: The findings of this study showed that Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz with 2932 degrees is ranked 30th, which is not suitable for other universities. It is recommended that officials of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz take measures to increase this amount of production. One way of increasing scientific production is to encourage faculty members, especially in fields where production is less than other disciplines. It is also possible to increase the scientific output of the university by creating more graduate courses and, consequently, raising the university's rank.
Discussion: It seems that the officials of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, with reverence for the members of the faculty, can encourage other members to produce world science. Of course, it should be noted that university planning and policies based on different disciplines should be different and for all groups you cannot act in one form.