Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Assistant Professor, Department of Knowledge and Information Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Knowledge and Information Sciences, payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
3 Msc. Department of Knowledge and Information Sciences, payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
Purpose: Considering the extent and importance of Payame Noor University in higher education and the importance of social sciences in the production of Iranian science, the purpose of this study is to investigate and analyze the quality of scientific products in the field of social sciences of Payame Noor University based on scientometric and altmetrics indices in Scopus from 2010 to 2020.
Methodology: This descriptive survey study will be performed by scientometric and altmetrics methods and will be a type of applied research. The study population of all scientific productions in the field of social sciences of Payame Noor University, including 557 documents, in 2010 and 2020. Pearson t-test and correlation coefficient were used to analyze the data on the relationship between citation indices and Altmetrics indices.
Findings: A comparison of the scientific productions of Iran Social Sciences and Payame Noor University shows that the share of Payame Noor University in the total number of Iranian articles was equal to 2.89%. The rate of articles resulting from scientific collaborations of only the authors of this university with international authors has been 10%. In addition, the citation per paper of these scientific products and its FWCI were 3.1 and 0.63, respectively. In addition, regarding the altmetrics indices of the scientific documents studied in the Scopus database, the Abstract frequency index had the highest frequency with 63944 and an average of 106.57 per article.
Conclusion: The results of this study showed that the amount of science production of Payame Noor University researchers is very low compared to the national level in the field of social sciences and it is necessary to change policies and create incentives for science production in this sector.
Research Methods: This is a descriptive survey study that will be performed by scientometric and altmetrics methods and will be a type of applied research. The study population of all scientific productions in the field of social sciences of Payame Noor University, including 557 documents, in 2010 and 2020. Pearson t-test and correlation coefficient were used to analyze the data on the relationship between citation indices and Altmetrics indices.
Results: A comparison of the scientific productions of Iran Social Sciences and Payame Noor University shows that the share of Payame Noor University in the total number of Iranian articles was equal to 2.89%. The rate of articles resulting from scientific collaborations of only the authors of this university with international authors has been 10%. Also, the citation per paper of these scientific products and its FWCI were 3.1 and 0.63, respectively. Also, regarding the altmetrics indices of the scientific documents studied in the Scopus database, the Abstract frequency index had the highest frequency with 63944 and an average of 106.57 per article. Based on the findings, the highest frequency of Altmetrics indices of scientific documents studied in Scopus database was Abstract view index with 63944 and an average of 106.57 per article.
Coclusion: The results of this study showed that the amount of science production of Payame Noor University researchers is very low compared to the national level in the field of social sciences and it is necessary to change policies and create incentives for science production in this sector.
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