چکیده:
This study aimed at investigating scientific collaboration and analyzing co-authorship networks in pharmacology and pharmacy research studies in Iran. Data used for this scientometric study included all pharmacology and pharmacy documents of Iran, indexed in Web of Science (WOS) from 2003 to 2014 and were analyzed using citation analysis section of WOS and Excell and SPSS. Citespace, and Gephi softwares were used for visualization and analysis of co-authorship network. The dominant co-authorship pattern was four-author pattern, with collaboration index, degree of collaboration and collaboration coefficient of 4.49, 0.96 and 0.691 respectively. The obtained density for co-authorship network and the clustering coefficient mean were 0.3 and 0.306 respectively. Despite the fact that the collaboration index in the field of pharmacology and pharmacy was much greater compared to other fields, the networks' total average density signified a great sparseness of co-authorship network. The clustering coefficient mean indicated that the network members' tendency towards forming different clusters was relatively low. There was no meaningful relationship between collaboration index and the number of productions as well as collaboration index and the citation impact. Authors indicated a greater tendency towards co-authorship. It is recommended that senior officials in scientific communities pay more attention to scientific collaboration activities, allocation of budget and appropriate facilities, and providing suitable circumstance to encourage more collaboration. It is recommended also, researchers pay more attention to constant team working with colleagues and students.
خلاصه ماشینی:
com Abstract This study aimed at investigating scientific collaboration and analyzing co- authorship networks in pharmacology and pharmacy research studies in Iran.
Mali, Kronegger, Doreian, and Ferligoj (2012) indicated that access to bibliographic databases and the availability of powerful quantitative social network approaches are the reason for increasing the number of studies of co-authorship networks in different scientific fields.
For these reasons, the present study aims at determining co-authorship patterns and indices, co-authorship network structure, analyzing these networks and evaluating the relationship between the number of scientific publications and the average citations with scientific collaboration in domain of pharmacology and pharmacy in Iran.
These numbers show citation numbers"’, co-citation numbers'3’, and co-citation cosine coefficient'2’, respectively (Hassanzadeh, Khodadust, Hassanzadeh, Yates, and Akhgar, 2012; Olmeda-Gomez, Perianes-Rodriguez, Antonia Ovalle-Perandones, Guerrero-Bote, and de Moya Anegon, 2009; Osca-Lluch, Velasco, Lopez, and Haba, 2009).
The comparison of the findings of this study with previous studies demonstrates that the rate of scientific collaboration in Iran in domain of pharmacology and pharmacy is higher than other fields such as cardiovascular studies (Farahani, Eskrootchi, Mohaghegh, and Hosseini, 2014) and social sciences .
07) and other fields (Ajiferuke, Burell, and Tague, 1988; Bordons, Garcia-Jover, and Barrigon, 1993; Hassanzadeh, Khodadust, Hassanzadeh, Yates, and Akhgar, 2012; Nikzad, Jamali, and Hariri, 2011; Osareh, Norouzi Chakoli, and Keshvari, 2010), but it is lower than CI in the field of pharmacology and pharmacy in Spain during 2006-2008 (5.