Identifying the subject of scientific productions in the field of coastal areas using scientometric approach

The aim of this study was to investigate the production of science by researchers in the coastal region using scientometric approaches.

This study is an applied study and has been done by descriptive-survey method with scientometric approach and analysis of social networks. The statistical population in this study is 1753 documents of researchers in the field of coastal area in the Web of Science citation database between 2000 and 2019. Data were analyzed using Excel and VOSviewer software.

The research findings showed that the products of this field in the world were mostly done with the topics of sea, bay, dynamics and the words sea, management, bay, model were recognized as the most frequent words in the products of the coastal area. Analysis of data on the co-authored network of countries showed that the United States, Russia, China are the top three countries in terms of science production, as well as Germany, France and the United States have the largest scientific pairs. The study of organizations active in the field of coastal areas also shows that russian acad sci, chinese acad sci, univ Gdansk are the top universities and institutions operating in the field of coastal areas.

Considering the increase in the quality of articles that are done with the concurrence and participation of several authors and the increase in interdisciplinary fields, researchers in the field of coastal areas should consider the fields that need research and study with other authors, especially authors. Foreign pay.