Co-authoring Patterns and Co-occurrence of Scopus Documents of Researchers in the Faculty of Entrepreneurship of University of Tehran

In recent years, the increasing growth of entrepreneurship research has created the need to target scientific research in this field in the country and also in the entrepreneurship faculty of Tehran University. By using various scientometric techniques, the status of these studies should be examined and studied from different viewpoints. So this study aims to analyze the structure of social network co-occurrence and Co-authorship of scientific documents produced by researchers of the Faculty of Entrepreneurship of the University of Tehran in the Scopus database during the years 2008 to 2020.

This study in terms of purpose is an applied and descriptive scientometrics, which has been done methodologically with co-word analysis and network analysis. The collected data (on September 10, 2020, corresponding to September 20, 2019) were analyzed using Excel software. VOSviewer software was used to draw the maps and UCINet software was used to analyze social networks using centrality metrics.

Findings show that a total of 236 scientific documents has been indexed by researchers of the Faculty of Entrepreneurship of the University of Tehran in the Scopus database, that all these documents are presented in English and in 5 different types, that the Journal articles rank first with 176 records in the Scopus database. Since 2014, scientific productions in this field have started their growth period and in 2018, they have reached their growth period. "Contributions to Management Science" Journal with the publication of 20 articles, the "Iranian Entrepreneurship: Deciphering the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Iran and in the Iranian Diaspora" Journal with 14 articles and the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business with 11 articles, considered as the core Journals for the researchers of the Faculty of Entrepreneurship of Tehran University. In terms of the number of citations, the articles have had an upward and favorable trend since 2015 and the H index calculated in the Scopus database in the field of entrepreneurship in a 13-year period shows the number 17. The most cooperation in the production of this research has been with the United Kingdom, Australia, and Denmark. Seyed Mojtabi Sajjadi, Mohammad Reza Zali, Afsana Bagheri, and Aydin Salamzadeh have the most scientific products, respectively. In the study of the co-occurrence network of entrepreneurship field in the Scopus database, 13 topic clusters were identified, which are the largest clusters, respectively, "supply chain management", "multi-criteria decision management" and "organizational entrepreneurship". the supply chain management cluster is the largest cluster. In terms of the centrality index, Seyed Mojtabi Sajjadi with a centrality score of 42, Mohammad Reza Zali with a centrality score of 25, and Kambiz Talebi with a centrality score of 20 are in the first to third ranks. Also, in terms of the closeness centrality index, Mohammad Azizi with a centrality score of 909, Kayhan Taj-aldini with a centrality score of 909, and Nader Seyed Amiri with a centrality score of 901 had the highest degree of closeness. According to the centrality index, Kambiz Talebi with a centrality score of 095.1405, Seyed Mojtabi Sajjadi with a centrality score of 968.1312, and Jahangir Yadalhi Farsi with a centrality score of 224.758 are in a good position in the network. In terms of the centrality index of the special vector, Seyed Mojtabi Sajjadi with a centrality score of 1, Mohammad Reza Zali with a centrality score of 57.0, and Nizamuddin Faqih with a centrality score of 493.0 were ranked first to third.

Since the Faculty of Entrepreneurship can play an active role in the economic growth of the country and increase the employment rate through self-employment, more attention should be paid to this field and active researchers and its thematic trends.