Subject Analysis and Clustering of Educational Administration Articles in Iranian Publications

The purpose of this study is to investigate the status of research in the field of educational administration and identify its cluster based on articles indexed in the citation database of Islamic World Science.

This research is a descriptive-survey method and using Co-Word analysis, content analysis methods have been used in Scientometric researches The research population is all articles indexed in the citation database of Islamic World Science in the period 2004-2016. Ravar Pre Map, Excel, Vosviewer and Net Draw software are used in data analysis.

The review of articles showed that the field of educational administration in Iran consists of ten subject clusters; the terms that have the most links in these clusters are university, student, curriculum, higher education, self-efficacy, learning, attitude, effectiveness, students and teachers. The words of managers, achievement, schools, education and technology are also frequent concepts in research. The average growth rate of the articles is 29.12%, and 76% of the research has been done quantitatively.

The research showed that the topic of articles is only part of the subsection of the field of educational administration and there is not knowledge in this area.