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The research method provides a way to solve or a systematic answer to the research problem. It is a framework for collecting, organizing, analyzing and presenting data to study the research problem. Design science research has emerged as an important approach in information systems research. Thus, this study is a systematic review of theoretical literature with a narrative analysis approach to create a comprehensive understanding of key concepts and specialized attitudes around design science research methods. A road map is designed to express how to use DSR to find the answer to the research question(s) about the design of information technology artifacts. The research is conducted with a systematic review method in two main steps. In the first step, the search for reliable sources was carried out using automatic approaches and snowball forward and backward in reliable databases. After the qualitative evaluation of the obtained sources, 52 articles were approved and selected based on specific criteria. In the second step and during the study, based on the narrative analysis method, four narratives emerged: the philosophical foundations of design science research, the theoretical development approach of research in design science, the methodological choice of design science research, the strategy of design science research. Finally, using the narratives and concepts identified in each narrative, a mapping of the concepts and topics related to the four emerged theme of design science research was done and summarized and drawn in the form of a road map. The compiled roadmap presents the process of using the design science research method in the information technology artifacts design in a structured and accurate way for conducting design science research.

Reporting research limitations in academic literature is very important for understanding and utilizing research findings. This study aims to assess the extent to which and how research limitations acknowledged in Persian theses and dissertations (TDs). 664 Persian TDs published from 2009 to 2018 selected randomly through cluster sampling technique from IranDoc’s TDs database and the last chapter of 578 TDs analyzed. Through content analysis method, reported limitations analyzed and coded. Around 17% of TDs (99/578) addressed at least one limitation in their reports, while 64% of them had a specific heading for this section. The trend of reporting limitations has increased during current decades and students in humanities areas have paid more attentions to this section. Overall, 22 key limitations have been repeated 268 times in the TDs and “sampling bias” is more frequent with 29 repeats among them. Addressing research limitations in TDs is very incomplete. Transparent addressing of research limitations may help readers and stakeholders understand and apply research findings more effectively. The role of educators and academic institutes to inform newcomer researchers about the importance and structure of research limitations section in their reports is vital. This is the first study to examine research limitations in Persian academic literature and can inspire more research on this subject. The stakeholders of research, such as faculties, students, universities, research centers, readers/beneficiaries, and sponsors will be informed about key research limitations in TDs.

The purpose is to review various views about the composed research method, and to obtain a relatively comprehensive cognitive knowledge.

This is a conceptual paper in which, using related literature and concepts of chemistry, the intention of composing the two quantitative and qualitative research methods is identified so that it leads to a better understanding of the composed research method.

Findings show that different researchers of the composed method disagree with each other over the kind of mixing the two quantitative and qualitative research methods. Some scholars find it blended into data, methods, and findings, on the contrary, some consider a composition of theoretical and philosophical foundations and some other know a mixture by combining each of these items. Mixing the two substances together is one of the basic subjects of chemistry. In chemical science, when mixing the two substances changes the physical nature of the material, it is mixed up, but if, in addition to change their physical nature, the chemical structure of the material is changed, and a new material is produced with a new chemical structure (the new chemical nature), it is called a composition. Accordingly, a change in the type of data, methods, and findings can be regarded as a change in the physical nature in chemistry and a change in the theoretical and philosophical foundations can be considered as a change in the chemical nature in chemistry. using the dialectical approach as a composed approach in the information retrieval studies is suggested.

The purpose of the study is to identify the appropriate research method(s) for interdisciplinary sciences, including knowledge and information science. In this regard, this is an analytical review article concerning some important philosophical schools related to research methods in which the characteristics of each philosophical school is mentioned and discussed. The findings show the positivist, pragmatist, realistic and Parmenides philosophical schools may be regarded as reductionist approaches which tend to discover the laws of nature; the existentialist and Heraclitus philosophical schools are holistic which tend to consider the change of entities. Since, it is the nature of the problem and the subject of the research that determine the appropriate research method and philosophy; Hence, for interdisciplinary sciences that often have complex, multi-faceted problems, the use of dual philosophical schools such as Plato’s philosophy (the composite approach) is more appropriate. It seems awareness of the fact that every research follows a series of philosophical assumptions has implications on how problems in the knowledge and information science should be studied.

This study, using a new method called Referenced Publication Years Spectroscopy (RPYS), examines the most important historic works written in the area of research methodology. Preliminary data of this study have been extracted from Web ob Science database through scientomerics methods. For this purpose, the references used in all the papers in the core journals in this field since 1980 to the end of 2014 were studied. Distribution of resources in the area of research methodology based on the publication year indicates that this field of study, during time interval 1900 to 1980, has seen 9 major mutations, respectively, in the years 1910, 1927, 1934, 1938, 1951, 1960, 1965, 1967, and 1979. The findings suggest a considerable influence of psychological studies (in particular, the application of statistics in psychology) on historical topics of research methodology; So that, 4 out of 5 sources related to the period 1900 to 1940, are written straight by the experts of psychology, with an emphasis on improving statistical methods and applying them in different researches. The results revealed that the share of articles out of total referred resources works presented, compared to books, was 12 to 7 which could direct us to this point that, the impact of articles in shaping the historical origins of the research methodology topics was more colorful than books.

This survey is aimed to know research methods of master's dissertations in the field of the Knowledge and Information Science in Tehran state Universities from 2006 to 2012 and also to specify the abundance methods of research at state universities of Tehran. This survey has done by content analyzing and bibliometric method. The society of research is 154 dissertations in MA degree at University of Tehran, Tarbiat Modaress and Medical University of Iran. The tool of information gathering has been a check list. Results show that among 154 studied dissertations, Tehran University has the most one. The most abundance in methods of survey is "survey method" (70 %) and the least abundance is "documenting method". After reviewing the thesis of knowledge and information science the State University of Tehran was determined that the increased interest in using survey method and the documentation method Has been used less.

The aim of present research is reviewing research methodology of Master of Library and Information Science students’ dissertations in Islamic Azad University, North Branch of Tehran. Content analysis and bibliometrics are two methods used in this research. Findings of the research including 192 Dissertations with frequency of 243 research methods between 1992 and 2005 demonstrate that survey research method with 66.6 percent relative frequency was the most used methods in dissertations among 11 research methods, while historical, experimental and bibliometric research methods together account for 2.5 percent of total methods. It is necessary to be mentioned that during different periods of time other methods were used sporadically and survey research method was one of them.