Co-authorship networks of Iranian articles in library and information science, psychology, management and economics in ISI during 2000-2009

Hariri, Nadjla; Nikzad, Mahsa

Co-authorship networks of Iranian articles in library and information science, psychology, management and economics in ISI during 2000-2009

Authors

Nadjla Hariri

Mahsa Nikzad

Abstract

The objective of this research was to compare co
authorship networks of Iranian articles in Library and
Information Science (LIS),
(MNG) and Economics (ECO) in ISI during 2000
research was a bibliometric study and used network analysis
(using Pajek) for the visualization of co
Data included all articles written by at leas
and indexed in Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) for the fields
of LIS, PYSCH, MNG and ECO. Different indicators such as
collaborative index (CI), degree of collaboration (DC) and
collaboration coefficient (CC) were calculated for e
Results showed that two or three authors were the most common
number of authors per paper and authors of PYSCH tended to
have more multi-authored articles compared to the other
disciplines. LIS had the lowest rank regarding CC. MNG had the
densest and PYSCH had the sparsest co-authoship network.
Iranian authors in the field of PSYCH mostly collaborated with
USA while LIS and MNG authors tended to collaborate with UK,
and ECO authors tended to collaborate with Canadians.

Keywords

Co-authorship Network

ISI

Iran

collaborative index (CI)

degree of collaboration (DC)

Collaboration co efficient (CC)

international co-authorship