Analysis of the Iranian Research Network in the field of Neurological Disease

Amir Reza Asnafi, Shahid Beheshti University, Knowledge and Information Science Department, [e-mail] Awareness of the all-authorized network of researchers in the field of neurological diseases in Iran based on the indicators of network analysis and illustration of the scientific communication network can provide solutions for planning in research and technology of medical sciences. The purpose of the present study was to analyze the scientific communication network of Iranian researchers in the field of neurological diseases in web of Science website. The present applied research has utilized science-based methods as well as co-authoring and social network analysis techniques. All Iranian researchers in the field of neuroscience who have published articles on the Web of Science website from 2000 to 2019 were selected to participate in the current study. A total of 3223 articles related to the field of neurological diseases were identified and finally analyzed. To examine the status of co-authoring in the field of neurodegenerative diseases, software of Bibexcel, Ucinet and its complementary Netdraw package were used. The results showed that researchers with more documentation had more tendency to cooperate. Considering the social networking authorship, the H index and the most cited researchers, it can be stated that Mohammad Ali Sahraian is the most influential researcher in the field of neurological diseases. Scholars who have published more papers are better in terms of number of citations received, and researchers with higher degree of centrality, closeness, and interstitial index ranked higher in terms of productivity (number of articles) and efficiency (number of citations). It should be noted that scientific collaboration in the medical and other fields has a great impact on promoting the community and the individual at national and international level. Scientific or co-authoring or co-authoring encourages people to write more articles. People at the top make other researchers and writers more inclined to co-author them. Authors have a greater desire to collaborate with foreign writers, which makes them international. In general, the results show that the scientific collaboration of researchers contributes to the promotion of science in society and the promotion of individuals in scientific circles.

کلیدواژه ها:

Co-authorship ، Scientific Collaboration ، Iranian Neurological Diseases ، Web of Science ، Central Measures