Sport Management Studies

Investigation of Scientific Productivity and Co-authorship Network of Iranians' Researchers on Physical Education and Sport Science in Web of Science during 2006-2016

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Sepideh Fahimifar 1
Behzad Gholam Pour 2
Sajad Gholam Pour 3

1 Assistant Professor of Information Science and Knowledge Studies, University of Tehran

2 M. Sc. Student in Scientometrics, University of Tehran

3 M. Sc. Student in Sport Events Management, Kharazmi University

https://doi.org/10.22089/smrj.2018.4690.1900
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate of scientific productivity and co-authorship network of Iranians' researchers on physical education and sport science in Web of Science during 2006-2016. The scientometrics approach and Network Analysis Method were used and deals with mapping co-authorship networks. For analysis and visualization of co-authorship networks, Histcite, Nodexl and VOSviewr Softwares were used. The data consists of all scientific productivity of Iranians' researchers in mentioned field which was published in Web of Science. The results show that in this period, there are 604 scientific document related to Iranian researchers in the field, of which 487 papers are in the article formats in 82 journals. The majority of collaborations of the Iranian researchers has been with United States, Britain and Canada. As well as the most productive organizations are related to Islamic Azad universities, medical sciences Tehran and Guilan and The most productive authors were Rahnama, Salavati and Mazaheri Moreover. Arazi From the University of Guilan, Asadi from Payame Noor University, Gaeini from University of Tehran, Mohebbi from University of Guilan and Rahnama from University of Isfahan have had the most cooperation with their counterparts.

Keywords

Scientific Productivity
Co-authorship Network
Physical Education and Sport Science
Web of Science
Scientometrics

Subjects

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Sport Management Studies
Volume 10, Issue 49
August & September 2018
July and August 2018
Pages 37-58

  • Receive Date 25 August 2017
  • Revise Date 25 November 2017
  • Accept Date 09 January 2018

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