Citation Analysis of Master's thesis at the Institute of Culture, Arts and Communications during 1379-1388

The purpose of this research is to study and analyze the references of Master of Art theses that are collected in research institute for culture, art and communications. Theses are published in five majors, including Persian Language and Literature. The study targets a 10-year period from 2000 to 2009 (1379 to 1388). This study used bibliometric and citation analysis method. The population was 352 thesis with 27460 citations. The findings show that books have been most cited. Journals, theses and Internet resources have 2nd to 4th rank. Every thesis has an average of 78.01 references. The largest number of references is published in Persian. Time coverage of sources related to 1996-1999 includes 36.49% of all citations, while Persian books with 49.1% and Latin Theses with 0.5%have the highest and lowest impact. The citation ratio to up-date sources in 2009 and 2001-2002 are 2 and 0.6 and 0.66 sources, respectively. Bradford's law obey magazines and journals, including Journal of Information Nuclear Persian - politics, economics and social sciences, letters and journals, including the Journal of Social & Humanities Latin nucleus and the British journal of education psychology. Most cited in the thesis of the book is the ease of access and ease of use due to lack of understanding of the student's language Farsi, the dominant language is non.