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 Editorial Board Metrics (EBM) is used to determine the performance, effectiveness, and role of editorial board members and journal editors in policymaking and designing a roadmap for the future of journals. This study analyzed and evaluated indexed journals in health sciences, biological sciences, arts, and humanities using EBM.

 Social Network Analysis (SNA) was used to visualize the interconnections of editorial board members and journals. For this purpose, centrality indices were used, including degree centrality, closeness centrality, and betweenness centrality. Data analysis was performed in two descriptive and inferential sections for editorial board members (2813 individuals) and journals (200 journals) using statistical methods such as frequency, percentage, mean, Kendall's Tau-b coefficient, Chi-square test, and software such as UCINET, SPSS, Net Draw, and Python.

 The research findings on the status of the impact factor of journals indicate that in the field of humanities and arts, the "Journal of Applied Issues in Islamic Education" with 1.095 has the highest impact factor. In the field of health sciences, "Iranian Journal of Ageing (Salmand)- Waiting List" with 0.446 has the highest impact factor, and in the field of biological sciences, "Plant Genetic Researches - Primary List" with 0.37 has the highest impact factor in each subject area. Some journals in the fields of humanities and arts have a high self-citation rate, including journals that have over 80% self-citation in the field of humanities and arts, such as "The Journal of Nahjolbalagheh" (77.80%) and "Journal of Kurdish Literature" and "Persian Language and Iranian Dialects" (100%). Ahad Faramarz Gharamaleki (Professor at the University of Tehran) and Mohammad Hassan Ghadrdan Gharamaleki (Professor at the Institute of Culture and Islamic Thought) have the highest level of interlocking (frequency 5). Of 368 individuals with co-authorship, 333 are male, and 35 are female. Regarding academic rank, the "Professor" with 71.76% and "the Associate Professor" with 15.48% have the highest share in the editorial board community.

 Of the 2,813 individuals who collaborated in 200 journals, 368 editorial board members had to interlock. The results indicate a significant negative relationship between the impact factor and the interlocking of the social science research journals and between the number of citations received by journals and their interlocking. Furthermore, there is a correlation between a rise in journal quartiles and a decrease in interlocking. According to the results, the number of journal quartiles is a significant negative predictor of interlocking. The Immediacy Index (II) of journals, the Median Impact Factor (MIF) in the macro subject, the number of articles, and the self-citation index are not significant predictors of interlocking. Considering the role of editorial board members in the development and quality improvement of journals through reviewing and selecting topics, the effort to form more diverse editorial boards with less interlocking will not only bring more diverse research output to the publishing world, deposit; which will create a positive competitive environment with a broader range of votes.

This study aimed at the scientometric analysis of chief editors and editorial board members of ISC journals in health sciences, life sciences, and humanities.

This study applied quantitative research, and it was done with scientometric indicators, including the "Editorial Board Interlocking (EBI)" and Social Network Analysis (SNA). To analyze the data, centrality indices and Excel, Python, SPSS, NetDraw and UCiNet software were used for pre-processing and analyzing data and drawing EBI maps. The research community is 200 journals and 2813 editorial board members (National and International) and chief editors.

In this study 13.08 percent of the editorial board members and 81.5 percent of the journals studied in this article have an "EBI." In the reviewed scientific journals, most editorial board members are "professors," and men cooperate with the journals of the research community almost six times more than women. The University of Tehran, the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and Shahid Beheshti University, and Tehran, Qom and Khorasan Razavi provinces have gained the largest share in publishing journals. Despite six times more men than women, no statistically significant difference was observed between the "EBI" and the gender of editorial board members and chief editors. However, a statistically significant relationship exists between academic rank and the "EBI." "History of Philosophy," the core journal of Humanities and Arts, has first place among 163 interlocked journals with a degree centrality of 14. Regarding the closeness centrality of interlocked journals, it should be added that "Water and Soil" and "Soil Management and Sustainable Production" have obtained a closeness centrality index of 2738. The betweenness centrality section also indicated that the journals "Research in Rehabilitation Sciences (Health Sciences-Waiting List)," “Comparative Linguistics Research (Human Sciences and Art-Core List)" and "History of Philosophy (Human Sciences and Art-Core List)" respectively, have first to third place.

There is an "EBI" in Persian journals. In other words, several editorial board members and chief editors collaborate in several journals. Any increase in the amount of "EBI" means that people are involved in the policies of the journals, such as the publication of articles, refereeing processes and methods, the selection of referees, the proposal of unique articles, the proposal guest editor and many other vital items play a decisive role. The existence of the "EBI," especially the "EBI" with high frequencies, causes the journals of a subject area to adopt almost the same macro policies. In this way, the strategies, plannings, approaches and intellectual paradigms of a limited number of editorial board members, who, based on the results of this research, are primarily men, professors and members of the academic faculty of top universities, on Persian journals in the subject areas of humanities and Art has overshadowed Health Sciences and Life Sciences.