Drawing a Scientific Map of Collaborative Research in Two Fields of Surgery and Chemistry by Iranian Researchers

This research was conducted with the aim of drawing a scientific map of collaborative research in the two fields of surgery and chemistry by Iranian researchers using data from the ISI reference database.

The present research was conducted using documentary method and vocabulary co-occurrence analysis. Also, this research is practical in terms of purpose. The research community consisted of all articles indexed by Iranian researchers in the Web of Science database between 1992 and 2021 in the fields of surgery and chemistry. Also, the desired maps were drawn using VOSviewer software.

The results of the thematic map drawing showed that there was a map with 9 clusters in these two areas. Since the points with larger and colored circles mean frequently used categories and hot topics in the field, in these image points categories such as in-vitro, surgery, chemotherapy, composite scaffolds have 73, 55, 44 and 16 occurrences respectively. They form larger circles, so these categories can be considered hot and widely used topics of collaborative scientific productions of these two fields. Examining the results of the countries' participation network showed that 43 countries have had collaborative scientific production with our country's researchers in the two studied areas, therefore, this network has 6 clusters consisting of 442 nodes. Also, the findings about the participation network of organizations showed that in these two fields, 12 universities or organizations participated in collaborative scientific productions in the two fields of surgery and chemistry, this network has 8 clusters. In this network, Iran University of Medical Sciences with 32 links, Iran University of Medical Sciences with 29 links, and Baqiyatullah University of Medical Sciences with 23 links are ranked first to third, and Amirkabir University of Technology is ranked fourth with 17 links.

The results showed that 1245 degrees were done collaboratively between researchers in the fields of surgery and chemistry. This number of articles has been cited 46827 times, which shows that these articles are popular.