Scientometric Analysis of Scientific Products in the field of Islamic Civilization

This study is a scientometric analysis of scientific products of the Islamic civilization.

This is an applied research and done by scientometric approach. The statistical population of the study includes 337 indexed scientific outputs in the field of the Islamic civilization in the Web of Science database during 1986-2018. The data gathering tool is a checklist and information analysis tools are HisCite, VOSviewer, and Excel softwares.

The findings showed that the process of scientific outputs publishing was ascending with a slight fluctuation in different years, and most of the subjects of the scientific outputs are respectively in the areas of political science, religion, and sociology. Morever, the United States, Turkey, England and Malaysia, as well as Barilan, Colombia and Ankara universities, and the Journal of Peace Research had the largest publication and citation of scientific outputs. In addition, findings showed that Jonathan Fox had the most article publication among the authors, but the citation collaboration of the authors from countries and organizations is generally lower, and the co-occurrences network of keywords was also more dispersed and the keywords of Islam and Islamic civilization have the most cooccurrences.

The results showed that local citations to scientific outputs are much lower than global citations, and scientific collaboration among countries, organizations, and authors is also lower. Therefore, Islamic civilization policy-makers in different countries, especially Muslim countries, should strengthen and improve scientific cooperation locally and internationally and create the necessary incentives to increase scientific collaboration among authors, countries and organizations.