جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "علوم اجتماعی و رفتاری" در نشریات گروه "کتابداری و مدیریت اطلاعات"

Considering that the goal of social science research is to train and provide skilled and specialized human resources to carry out research, education, management and planning in various social and cultural fields, and also considering that the main emphasis of this field is the education and promotion of excavations. A field about the social issues of the country and the analysis and interpretation of their roots, contexts, causes and factors, description and analysis of their extent in the society and finally the analysis of the information obtained from these studies is to solve social issues, therefore providing considered solutions to deal with them. With these problems and social developments, it is necessary. Considering that one of the evaluation criteria of universities and countries is the quantity and quality of their research outputs in international reliable databases. The status of each country's indexed research outputs in international valid indexes indicates an important part of that country's scientific activities at the international level. Therefore, in order to analyze scientific activities, a clear picture of this situation has always been the focus of the country's research managers. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to the quality of research outputs in Iranian universities, which are considered the most important scientific hub of the country. The results of this research can be used for planning at the level of administrations, various vice-chancellors and the entire universities under review, and by knowing the priorities, abilities and weaknesses, provide the necessary facilities to make scientific activities more targeted in the subject areas of social and behavioral sciences in the universities under review.  Therefore, this research studies and analyzes the research outputs of Iran's major universities using qualitative Scientometrics indicators in the subject areas of social and behavioral sciences during the period of 2010-2020.

What is the status of the research outputs of Iran's major universities in the subject areas of social and behavioral sciences with a Scientometrics approach from the perspective of quantity and impact index based on Scopus database data during the years 2010 to 2020?

The review of the literature indicates that the quality of research outputs in Iran's major universities has been less studied over a long period of time and using multiple Scientometrics indicators. In most of the previous studies, only the average index and the percentage of documents were cited and the H index was used to study the quality level of research outputs. Therefore, according to the investigations carried out in the dimension of scientology and the need to pay attention to the quality of research outputs in addition to their quantity, the present article studies and analyzes the research outputs of major universities in Iran in the subject areas of social and behavioral sciences according to several indicators of effectiveness during the period of 2010-2020. In this way, it has helped to identify the scientific position of the universities in the subject areas of social and behavioral sciences, as well as planning for its development at the national level, and to help strengthen and improve the country's scientific rank at the international level.

The current research is of an applied type and has been carried out with a Scientometrics approach and with documentary and citation analysis methods. The community under review is all research outputs in the subject areas of social and behavioral sciences, including "subject areas of psychology, economics (economics, econometrics and finance)", "management (business, management and accounting)", "social sciences", and "sciences", decision-making", according to the subject classification of the Scopus database, in the major universities of Iran in the years 2010 to 2020. The research implementation environment was Scopus and Scival databases. Research data was collected from March 20 to March 28, 2019 from Scopus and Scival. The method of data collection is to refer directly and get standard outputs from Scopus and Scival databases. The indicators used in this research are: citations, average citations per article, H index, weighted citation impact at the field level, percentage of highly cited articles, and percentage of articles published in top journals. Descriptive statistics (with Microsoft Excel software) were used to analyze the data.

According to the results, the total number of research outputs in the subject areas of social and behavioral sciences of Iran's major universities in the target period was 19,582 records. In all the studied universities, the subject area of social sciences had the most research outputs. In general, the research outputs of Iran's major universities in the subject areas of social and behavioral sciences have been on the rise in the given period of time. The reason for this can be the increase of students and researchers in postgraduate studies. In terms of the number of citations index, Shahid Beheshti, Isfahan, Ferdowsi, Tabriz, and Shiraz universities have the most citations in the subject area of "social sciences" and in the universities of Tehran, Allameh Tabataba’i, and Tarbiat Modares, the subject area of "business, management and accounting" has the most citations. In most of the cases mentioned in the universities and subject areas under investigation that received the most citations, in terms of the index of highly cited articles at the threshold of 10% and the index of articles published in top journals at the threshold of 25%, they also took the highest percentages. This issue indicates the high quality of research outputs with more citations, which these findings are consistent with the vital and high research (2016) for this reason that the more the citations of the articles, the higher the quality. In terms of highly cited articles at the threshold of 10%, in the universities of Tehran, Tarbiat Modares, Isfahan, Ferdowsi, Tabriz, and Shiraz, the subject area of "Economics, Econometrics and Finance", and in Shahid Beheshti and Allameh Tabataba’i universities, the subject area of "Trade" "Management and accounting" got the highest percentages.

In terms of the index of articles published in top journals at the threshold of 25%, in Shahid Beheshti, Tehran, Tarbiat Modares, Ferdowsi, Tabriz universities, in the subject area of "Business, Management and Accounting", in Allameh Tabataba’i University, in the subject area of "Psychology", in universities Isfahan and Shiraz have the highest percentages in the subject area of "Social Sciences". In this regard, it has been mentioned in most of the cases that they have obtained a high percentage in terms of the index of highly cited articles at the threshold of 10% and the index of articles published in the top journals at the threshold of 25%. This issue shows the high quality of research outputs in the mentioned subject areas, which with the research of Irfan Manesh and Hosseini (2016), in terms of the impact of general impact indicators (H index, weighted citation impact index at the field level, citations) on the increase of articles published in Top journals and highly cited articles match. Since some of the indicators examined in this research, such as citations and the number of highly cited articles, are included in some ranking systems, such as the rankings of Leiden University, Saimgo University, and Shanghai University, increasing the mentioned indicators as much as possible is effective in improving the position of universities in these ranking systems.

In general, it is very important for universities to emphasize the quality of research outputs in addition to the quantity of these outputs. Attention to the quality of research outputs with the researches of Ebrahimi and Hayati (2007), Yaminifirouz et al. (2015) and Erfanmanesh and Hosseini (2018). Considering the number of received citations of the published research outputs of Iran's major universities in the review of their performance, as well as considering the special research credit and score for the authors of highly cited articles in various subject areas can be a suitable solution in this field. Also, emphasizing the quality along with the quantity of research outputs in universities and research centers should be given special attention.

We are grateful to Shahid Beheshti University Research Vice-Chancellor for their support in the implementation of this research.

This study aims to study the social and behavioral sciences research outputs at Shahid Beheshti University using indicators of Scientometrics and Altmetrics during 2010-2020. In the current world, where research is considered a factor for increasing power, countries try to raise the quantity and quality of their research outputs. Scientometrics is a field of research that uses statistical and measurement methods to determine the growth and development criteria of science and help determine the position of countries quantitatively.  On the other hand, the Web 2 revolution and the current advances in information technology have had a great impact on various scientific fields, and the possible benefits, and have changed the behavior of researchers. The wide level of access and widespread use of the web has made researchers use this space to share their works and increase the visibility of their research outputs, and tend to be more present in social networks and connect with the virtual world.

The indexed research outputs in Scopus in the field of social and behavioral sciences were studied.The current research was applied and was conducted with Scientometrics and Altmetrics approaches. Scopus, Scival, and Altmetric databases were used to gather data. The data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics tests in Excel and SPSS software.The investigated community is all research outputs in the subject areas of social and behavioral sciences, including "subject areas of psychology", "economy, econometrics, and finance", "business, management and accounting", "social sciences", and "decision-making sciences", according to the category The subject of the Scopus database is Shahid Beheshti University in the years 2010 to 2020.

In terms of Field-weighted citation impact, the highly cited articles were in the top 10% threshold, the top journals were in the top 25% threshold, and the subject area of business, management, and accounting was located in the highest rank. The most used social media in all areas were Twitter and Mendeley. In terms of the number of tweets, the field of psychology with 599 tweets has the most mentions and 3079 mentions in Mendeley, in the first place, and economics, econometrics, and finance have the least mentions and signs with 14 tweets and 348 mentions. In the correlation section, the results of the Spearman test showed that the subject areas of psychology and decision-making sciences have a statistically significant relationship Between the number of citations index and the altmetric score.

The research outputs of Shahid Beheshti University in the subject areas of social sciences and behavior had an ascending process during 2010-2020. The reason for this can be the increase of students and researchers at different levels. It can be stated that by inserting a digital object identifier (DOI) for all the outputs, their effect will be investigable based on the Altmetrics indicators. Universities need to emphasize the quality of research outputs in addition to the quantity of these outputs and also considering the special research credit and credit for authors of articles in top journals can be a suitable solution to increase the quality of research outputs. The results of this research can be used for planning at the level of management, and various vice-chancellors in the university under review, and by knowing the priorities, abilities, and weaknesses, provide the necessary facilities to make scientific activities more targeted in the fields of social and behavioral sciences in the university under review. Finally, the findings of this research can help identify the scientific position of the desired university in the subject areas of social and behavioral sciences, as well as plan for the development of the university at the national and international levels.