Ali Akbar Khasseh; Afshin Mousavi-Chalak; Atefeh Shahidi-Moghaddam
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Introduction: Recognizing the current situation and comparing research activities on various topics has made it important today to evaluate research activities using scientometrics techniques. The purpose of this study was to conduct co-word and co-authorship analysis of the articles published in the ...
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Introduction: Recognizing the current situation and comparing research activities on various topics has made it important today to evaluate research activities using scientometrics techniques. The purpose of this study was to conduct co-word and co-authorship analysis of the articles published in the Journal of Health Information Management (JHIM) from 2009 to 2018.Methods: The data for this study were extracted from Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC). The statistical population of the study consisted of 807 articles published in the JHIM in a ten-year period (2009-2018).Results: Isfahan University of Medical Sciences was the most prolific institution with the production of 236 articles. Over 94% of articles were published collaboratively. Mohammad Hossein Yarmohammadian had the highest scores in terms of centrality indicators. The keyword "hospitals" was the most frequently used keywords in the JHIM. Hierarchical clustering indicated seven clusters with the themes of hospital services and performance, knowledge management in universities, hospital information systems, quantitative measurement studies of health information, health Indicators, health information management and technology, and quality of health care in hospitals.Conclusion: The scientific collaboration approach among authors has been relatively good at producing scientific works. However, there are several authors with a limited number of articles. There are also a small number of core institutions and universities in producing scientific works in the field of health information management. With the exception of the knowledge management cluster at the universities, all the obtained clusters are aligned with the journal's thematic axes.
Molkey Rezaei-Haghighi; Farshid Danesh; Khadijeh Shabankareh; Ali Hamidi
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Introduction: Ideational influence and social influence are among the indicators of scientometrics used to evaluate scientific publications. This study aimed to evaluate and analyze the scientific publications of Iranian researchers in the field of myocardial ischemic diseases indexed in the Scopus citation ...
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Introduction: Ideational influence and social influence are among the indicators of scientometrics used to evaluate scientific publications. This study aimed to evaluate and analyze the scientific publications of Iranian researchers in the field of myocardial ischemic diseases indexed in the Scopus citation database.Methods: The present applied study was conducted through the scientometrics indicators of ideational and social influence. This study also employed the social network analysis to depict a co-author network. The statistical population included 6908 Iranian articles in the field of myocardial ischemic diseases in Scopus database from 2008 to 2017. Bibexcel, Pajek, and Vosviewer were used to analyze the data.Results: Indicators of social influence showed that the average degree of the centrality of myocardial ischemic diseases in Iran was 104.084, the average of the betweenness centrality was 0.061, and the average of the closeness centrality was 0.258. Analysis of the data related to the indicators of intellectual influence revealed that the H, G, and HC indices were 85, 62, and 167, respectively.Conclusion: Despite the fact that quality of publications in the field of myocardial ischemic diseases in Iran is not acceptable, the number of publications in this field is growing. The level of scientific collaboration is not acceptable as well. Conducting scientometrics studies in various fields of medical sciences using indicators such as ideational influence and social influence, and publicizing the results can make medical scientists aware of the real situation and position of their specialty around the world. Awareness of the results of scientific collaboration studies as well as the researchers’ studies introduces active and productive international scientists in the fields of scientific collaboration and the publication of more useful articles.
