Sadoughi Farahnaz, Valinejadi Ali, Shirazi Mansoureh Serati, Khademi Rouhallah
Dept. of Health Information Management, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC), Shiraz, Iran.
Iran J Parasitol. 2016 Apr-Jun;11(2):204-212.
The aim of this study was to survey the Iranian Parasitology researchers' performance, and analyse and visualize the scientific outputs of their co-authorship network.
This study was conducted using scientometric method and social network analysis (SNA). The data extracted from the Web of Science (WoS) databases in July 10th 2014. Totally, 1048 documents of all types in research area of Parasitology during 1972-2013 by Iranian researches retrieved. The co-authorship map was drawn utilizing NETDRAW, Coauthor.exe, and UCINET softwares and was analysed based on SNA measures.
The researchers' co-authorship network consisted of 78 authors and its density degree is 0.57. "Mohebali" ranked top in all of centrality measures. The most of the publications were related to 2012, "Mohebali" with about 9% of all documents was the Iranian most prolific author in Parasitology field. The Iranian researches have published mostly (266 documents) in "Iranian Journal of Parasitology", and the most of the documents belong to "Tropical Medicine" subject field. The most of Iranian researchers' scientific cooperation was performed with England and United States.
Bringing forth density degree (is 0.57) showed that this network has an almost medium density. Indeed, the authors have had relations in moderate level with each other in the network. The findings of this study can be identified aspects of scientific collaboration, and help policy makers of Parasitology field research.
本研究旨在调查伊朗寄生虫学研究人员的表现，并分析和可视化他们共同作者网络的科学产出。
本研究采用科学计量法和社会网络分析（SNA）进行。数据于2014年7月10日从科学网（WoS）数据库中提取。总共检索到1972 - 2013年间伊朗研究人员在寄生虫学研究领域的1048份各类文献。利用NETDRAW、Coauthor.exe和UCINET软件绘制共同作者图谱，并基于SNA指标进行分析。
研究人员的共同作者网络由78位作者组成，其密度为0.57。“莫赫巴利”在所有中心性指标中排名第一。大多数出版物与2012年相关，“莫赫巴利”约占所有文献的9%，是伊朗寄生虫学领域最多产的作者。伊朗研究人员发表的文献大多（266篇）发表在《伊朗寄生虫学杂志》上，且大多数文献属于“热带医学”主题领域。伊朗研究人员的大多数科学合作是与英国和美国进行的。
得出的密度为0.57表明该网络具有近乎中等的密度。实际上，作者们在网络中彼此之间的关系处于中等水平。本研究的结果可以确定科学合作的各个方面，并有助于寄生虫学领域研究的政策制定者。
