The Comparative Study of Citation Behavior and Iranian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health AuthorsGroup Participation in Directory of Open Access Journals(DOAJ)Database

Introduction: Studies published sources, reflecting the pattern of resource use by researchers that could be the basis for most libraries in order to used collection library material. This study is athe comparative study of citation behavior and Iranian and New Zealand journals of public health authors group participation in DOAJ database between the years 2010 – 2012.Methods: The method in this study is abibliometrics research with of using citation analysis and cross–sectional. In addition to that the co-authority method was used too. The research society was 10 journal regarding public health chosen from Iran and NewZealand .the date of the journals was like each other. The date was gathered through referring to database DOAJ and searching public health journals of Iran and NewZealand. 23239 cites were chosen from those journals and it was done with the use of Excel and description statistics.Results: The results indicates Iran that with 9 of 4.10% in the fifth and New Zealand with magazine number 8 equals 3.65 percentage ranks sixth in the journals indexed in DOAJ database. Iran and New Zealand whit total of 850 citations of journal articles 78.7 present of Iran and 21.3% of New Zealanders have published articles withby 23,239 citations from articles 77.5% of the country and a 5/22% of the New Zealand Journal of Iranian paper average 93/26 has been cited text.A total of 669 articles published from Iran, 4.9% of the articles without peerand 95.1 of the co-author of articles in the field of public health hasbeen And a total of 181 articles published in New Zealand, 11.5% of the paperswithout peer and a 88.95% co-author ofarticles. The findings showed that collaboration index of Iran and New Zealand, respectively, for each degree, 4.40, 3.93.Conclusions: Overall, the findings indicate that there is a cooperative involvement of a group of researchers in thefield of public health and the country is NewZealand that in contrast to other studies conducted in different areas of the course thegroup contributions.