Citation analysis of articles in the Iranian Journal of Forest and Poplar Research from 2005 to 2011

This research aimed to analyze the cited references for articles published from 2005 to 2011 in the Iranian Journal of Forest and Poplar Research. In this research, 319 articles with 6160 references were collected and analyzed. Data were prepared using a complete list from the archive of the journal in the given (mentioned) years, subject categorizing and counting them for each volume and registering them in the data bank. Analysis of variance and Duncan test were performed in order to compare the mean values of citations in each article and in different years. Results showed that the mean number of articles per volume was 11 with an average of 220 references for each volume and a mean of 19 references for each article. Among the subjects, afforestation (forest plantation) had the top rank followed by forest ecology and silviculture. Duncan test showed a significant difference between the number of references for each article among the studied years; the years of 2010 and 2011 showed the highest mean number of references for each article. Fifty-seven percent of the references were from the English literature. Among the Persian language literature, the rate of citation to books was higher than other sources, while citation to articles was higher among the English literature. In addition, 84% of the published articles in 2017 were written by more than two authors.