A review of science production by the faculty of Guilan University in Web of Science and Designing their Scientific map using Hist Site software from 2001 to 2012

The Present Study aims to review the science produced by the faculty of Guilan university in Web of Science. And their Scientific map will be illustrated using Hist Site during the twelve years (2001-2012).
The Present study is of applied type. Using scientometrics` methods and applying Bradford and Lotka principle and citation analysis, the scientific output in web of science is analyzed. The statistical population in this study is selected by census and includes all of the scientific output the faculty of Guilan University has produced from 2001 to 2012. In order to analyze, the data has been collected by searching the web of science and the data has been analyzed in three stages using SPSS, Excle and ISI.exe software and then to plot the scientific history of this university the Hist Site has been applied.
Findings: The Present study showed that during the interval of the study the researchers of the university have published 911 indexes at the web of science. The University of Guilan has had a growth in the world sciences amounting to 22.7 %, on average. Among the researchers, Shirini has had the highest growth. The investigations showed that the faculty of Guilan University had the most collaboration with England, Australia, USA and Germany. The results showed that the researchers of this university had the most co-operations with the authors of Iranian universities including Guilan University of medical sciences and medical university of Tehran. This shows that the researchers of this university have 84 % group cooperation. Lotka principle in terms of frequency distribution and Bradford principle in terms of core journal has conformed publishing the papers of the faculty. The scientific structure of the university is based on the citationat the national and international level using the “Hist Site” software. The results indicate that the science map of this university is constituted from 4 clusters including mathematics and chemistry.
The results of this study show that the chemistry researchers of this university have a high share in science production. Although the process of science making in this university has been going upwards during the years of this study this process has not been uniform in all of the fields of this university. Therefore, the management of the university must provide conditions so that the researchers will have high motivation and the required capabilities to get published in the prestigious international journals.