Co-authoring Patterns and Subject Trends of Scientific Documents Produced by Psychology Researchers at Universities of Tehran City in Web of Science Database

This study aims to survey co-authoring patterns and subject trends of scientific documents in the Web and Science database during the years 1970 to 2019 produced by psychology researchers of public universities in Tehran.

The present study is a scientometric study that has been done with the methods of co-word analysis and network analysis   research. The collected data were analyzed using Excel software. Also, for analyzing the social network of universities in scientific products in the field of psychology, UCINet network analysis software was used and thematic maps were drawn using VOSviewer software.

The findings of the study show a total of 1007 documents have been indexed by psychology researchers of the University of Tehran, Shahid Beheshti, Allameh Tabatabai, Al-Zahra and Tarbiat Modares,  respectively, in the web science database. Most collaborations in the  production of outputs have been done with Islamic Azad Universities, Tehran Medical Sciences and the University of Tennessee and the  countries of America, Australia and the United Kingdom. Besharat, Ghorbani, Ghobari Bonab have the most scientific productions,    respectively.

Conclustion: 

The results of social network analysis of vocabulary  concepts show that the highest indicators of the centrality of studies of five universities in Tehran are related to marital satisfaction, health    psychology, learning and memory, psychiatric disorders, and child abuse.