Investigating the status of scientific productions and the co-occurrence of words in the field of philosophy based on articles indexed in the Web of Science database

Philosophy is the art and science of thinking and gaining into the world and things. It seems important to identify the research fields and the scope of its subjects. This research was done with the aim of achieving a comprehensive understanding of the process and thematic structure of articles in the field of philosophy. The current research is descriptive with a scientometric approach that analyzes the content of texts using the co-occurrence of words and social network analysis. The statistical population includes articles in the field of philosophy that have been published in the Web of Science database for the 5-year period of 2017-2021 in the citation index of arts and humanities. Finally, 4829 articles were selected in order to comprehensively outline the intellectual structure of knowledge in the field of philosophy. R bibliometrix package was used for data analysis and scientific map drawing. The analysis of the data showed that the greatest increase in published documents occurred in the last 3 years, Fischer was the most prolific author in recent years. America and England are the top two countries in terms of receiving citations in the scientific field of philosophy. The most prominent organization is the INST philosophy. Studies in the field of philosophy are divided into four clusters; Philosophical schools of thought and pragmatism clusters were clusters with high density and developed and experimental philosophy and philosophy clusters were central clusters with high centrality and undeveloped. According to the findings and the high frequency of Kant's keyword and the relationship between this keyword and other keywords, it can be concluded that Kant's opinions and ideas are still of great importance in philosophical discussions. Also, according to the extracted clusters, it was observed that these researches do not have a high variety and many neglected philosophical topics still exist.By analyzing the topics related to the articles in the field of philosophy, scientific advances and trends in scientific cooperation in this field are highlighted, and this can help policy makers and researchers to understand the current state of philosophical research in addition to predicting and knowing the future.