خلاصة:
Using bibliographic records from the Social Science Citation Index, Science
Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Index, this paper tries to give a
complete view of the characteristics of top ten Iranian authors during 1990-
2007 according to their authorship pattern. Findings revealed that during
1990-2007 a total of 2650 articles were written by top ten Iranian authors.
Findings showed that M. Shamsipour with 463 articles is the most
productive scientist of Iran during the studied period. M. M. Heravi with
365 articles and M. Ganjali with 283 articles appeared in the table at second
and third positions, respectively. Findings revealed that overwhelmingly the
majority of articles (97/69%) written by Iranian top authors are the result of
collaborative works and the authors are highly inclined towards
collaborative rather than non-collaborative research. There was a
remarkable relationship between co-authorship and number of citations.
More-than-three-author articles received the most number of citations. On
the other hand, it seems that international collaboration of Iranian top
authors is not significant.
ملخص الجهاز:
Findings revealed that overwhelmingly the majority of articles (97/699c) written by Iranian top authors are the result of collaborative works and the authors are highly inclined towards collaborative rather than non-collaborative research.
Scientific production of Iran and its scientific growth rate are shown in several studies (Moin, Mahmoudi, & Rezaei, 2005; Chakoli, Hassanzadeh, & Nourmohammadi, 2008; Harirchi, Melin & Etemad, 2007).
Therefore, it is interesting to investigate the authorship pattern of ten top Iranian scientists to have a better understanding of research collaboration in Iran.
Studies of research collaboration have been frequent in the field of Scientometrics and Bibliometrics, and co-authorships are often used as an indicator (Harirchi, Melin, & Etemad, 2007).
Melo, Bini, & Carviho (2006) found that co-authored articles with international researchers tended to receive more citations.
They cited many articles that confirmed the positive correlation between multi-authorship and number of citations (Beaver, 1986; Bordons & Gomez, 2000; Bridgstoch, 1991; Bordins, Jover & Barrigon 1993; Van Raan, 1997).
Table 4 The Ave ra ge of Articles & Citations per Author {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} How do Iranian top scientists collaborate with other nations' scientists in their scientific productions?
Comparison of top authors in different countries, their average scientific production, and authorship patterns requires another interesting study.
These results concur with the findings reported by other researchers (Beaver, 1986; Sooryamoorthy, 2009; Jonkers, 2009; Iribarren-Maestro, Lascurain-Sanchez & Sanz-Casado, 2009 and Melo, Bini, & Carviho, 2006), according to which multi-authorship enhances paper quality.