Investigating Citation-Related Indicators: A Case Study of the Relationship between Citations and No. of Resources, No. of Keywords, Co-authorship, and Inter-Institutional Collaboration among Iranian Agricultural Sciences Journals

Scientific articles that the result of researchers’ thought and endeavor when they are published by accredited journals or indexed in scientific databases, they are cited by other researchers. Indexing the articles in science citation databases increases their visibility and citation opportunities. The present study examines the interrelationship among four variables – namely, co-authorship, number of keywords, number of references, and Inter-institutional collaboration – in 906 articles in Scientific Journals were published in the Persian language in the Field of Agricultural Sciences which bearing impact factor in Islamic Science Citation Center (ISC).

This research is a descriptive one and done by using of survey method. The research instrument included the Advanced Search option of the ISC Science Citation Index and ISC Journal Citation Reports. The data were analyzed using Excel and SPSS.

The results indicate co-authorship and institutional collaboration and the number of references increased article citation counts. However, the number of article keywords doesn’t have a positive effect on the citation.

Conclustion: 

Taking into consideration the factors contributing to citation attraction by research articles, it will be possible to predict future citation rates in addition to providing a measure of quality.