Citation Analysis and the Relation of Co-authorship in the Journal of Iranian Association of Arabic Language and Literature

The purpose of this study is to quantitatively investigate situation in the «Journal of Iranian Association of Arab Language and Literature” with regard to citation behaviors and co-authorship relations using scientometrics method. The findings of the current research indicated that the journals’ impact factor is very low due to lack of citation. The results also showed that 13% of the authors have produced more than 40% of the articles and the» Lotka’s Law«is partly confirm this. A total of 3681 citations of the journal articles have been cited، which equals to 184 citations for each number، on average. So، it is estimated that each article should contain a mean of 22. 04 citations. Some of the well-known references mostly used in these articles include: The Holy Qura’an، the “Lesan al Arab”، “Vafayat ol A’yan”، Majma''al-Bayan fi Tafsir al-Quran، The Inclusive History of the Arabic Literature، and The Book of the Index (Al-Fehrest). A total of 183 authors involved in the production of papers among which 76% of the articles have been written in individual; that is why the authors’ cooperation factor is very low. Generally، according to the articles of this journal، which is a small sample of Arabic Literature، there is no potential reference or writer in this area. Therefore، the rate of scientific cooperations and relations among the authors in this field is very low.