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The purpose of this research is to analyze and map the production of the Quranic sciences field at the international level indexed in the WoS database during the period 2000 to 2017 using the VOSviewer software to illustrate the results.
Descriptive - analytical method used to achieve the research purpose. The research population is comprised of all documents regarding the Qur'anic studies indexed in the citation index of science and social sciences accessible through WOS. The results showed that most researches topics during 2000-2017 focused on Islam religion which was the main area of research. Regarding highly productive writers, Duderija and Behn each authored 9 documents and Burman placed in the next position. Zadeh, Rippin and Shoemaker have the highest number of co-authorship with 67, 62 and 42 documents, respectively. Also, there are 75 countries in the field of Qur'anic studies in the form of articles in which The United States, Turkey, Malaysia and Iran, with 313, 145, 129 and 114 articles, are the most productive
countries in this field. Considering higher Education Institutes, Malaysia International Islamic University, Islamic Azad University, university Malaya and Tehran University with the production of 39, 38, 36 and 14 articles about Quran, respectively, are the most productive.
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com Abstract The purpose of this research is to analyze and map the production of the Quranic sciences field at the international level indexed in the WoS database during the period 2000 to 2017 using the VOSviewer software to illustrate the results.
In relation to Qur'anic studies regarding scientometrics, Mirhaghjoo Langroodi (2013) analyzed Journal of Quran Studies Quarterly and found half of the anicles were co-authored and also showed the most productive universities and authors in this area.
The share of Qur'anic studies of global science production belong to USA as the most productive country and kan ranked at the fourth position (Khasseh, Sadeqi, Ezzati, & Ghaffari, 2017).
Co-word analysis of the structure of knowledge in the Qur'nic and Hadith sciences uncovered keywords such as Quran, Nahj al-Balagha, and Imam Ali were the most frequent.
Although there are two co-occurrence frequencies in the field of hadith, Islam and science, Islamic historical documents, multiculturalism and scriptures, have not linked to any other subject matter and are considered as the least important issues in the Qur'anic studies.
The most effective institutions in Qura’nic studies Discussion In this research, it was tried to identify the structure of Qura'nic studies and the relationship between the subject areas using the lexical analysis and the study of the co- occurrence of key words and other information in the field of Qura'nic sciences.
Thematic Analysis of Persian Documents in the Field of Quran Study and Medicine in National Scientific-Research Journals from 1992 to 2013 “An Opportunity for Evidence Based Decision Making”.
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