خلاصة:
As one of the main bibliometric concepts, co-authorship has been thoughtfully considered in recent years. Despite many bibliometric studies on the co-authorship in different scientific fields and worldwide countries/regions, Iranian researchers' collaboration in the management field has not been studied. This study aimed to investigate the co-authorship networks in the management papers contributed by Iranian researchers indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) during the recent half-century (years, 1969-2018). Bibliometric data on 5414 papers were extracted from WoS and analyzed in Excel, UCINET, and VOSviewer to measure bibliometric indicators, the map needed co-authorship networks, and depict time-based maps and keyword clustering. Findings showed that co-authored papers increased from two items in 1973 to 721 items in 2018. Expert Systems with Applications, African Journal of Business Management, and International Journal of Production Research were ranked first to third in co-authored papers. Top 20 authors published about 17% of papers (946). Islamic Azad University, University of Tehran, and the Amirkabir University of Technology ranked first to third. Most co-authorship frequencies were made from 2012 to 2014. The first to third ranks of collaborating countries were the USA, Canada, and England. Six main keyword clusters were formed, including main topics in the field. In conclusion, Iranian researchers increasingly co-authored in management, especially during the last decade, and published in various journals that some top ones are prestigious journals. However, some gaps need to be bridged by the low contribution of research institutes and universities countrywide and the limited number of authors with high productivity and low collaboration with neighbor countries and influential universities worldwide.
ملخص الجهاز:
This study aimed to investigate the co-authorship networks in the management papers contributed by Iranian researchers indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) during the recent half- century (years, 1969-2018).
Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the bibliometric indicators of the co-authorship networks in the management publications contributed by Iranian researchers indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) during the recent half-century (years 1969-2018).
Acedo, Barroso, Casanueva and Galan (2006) investigated the co-authorship network of management and organizational studies and found an increasing trend in the scientific collaboration in the field.
As Table l shows and briefly described above, co-authorship networks have been studied in many scientific fields, different periods, and countries/regions at the level of different scientific items (papers, journals, authors, research institutes, etc.
Table 6 Highl y-Ranked Co-Authoring Pairs and Co-Authorship Frequencies of Iranian Researchers Publishing Papers on Management during 1969-2018 {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} Figure l shows the interconnected co-authorship network.
Figure 2: Time-Based Co-Authorship Networks of Iranian Researchers Publishing Papers on Management during 1969-2018 Table 7 shows the highly-ranked co-authorship pairs of contributing research institutes/universities.
Figure 3: The Co-Authorship Network among Lanian Universities and Research Institutes Publishing Papers on Management during 1969-2018 Most collaboration has been done since 2008.
In line with this study, Nikzad, Jamali & Hariri (201 I) showed that management had the densest co-authorship network among Lanian authors active in social sciences during 2000—2009.