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Purpose: One of the most important indicators of a country's development is its progress in scientific research across various fields and disciplines. Evaluating scientific output in different areas reveals the trajectory of scientific advancement within those fields. The analysis of co-occurring keywords and co-authorship, as key conceptual visualizations in scientometrics, is widely used for mapping the network of scientific domains. Recent scientometric studies have extensively employed this approach to facilitate conceptual analysis. This study aimed to analyze and visualize the scientific landscape of Persian research in information technology (IT), as it is essential to understand the research profile of this significant scientific field. This analysis is based on articles indexed in the Iranian Science Citation Index (ISC) database over a decade, from 2010 to 2019.Methodology: Taking a bibliometric and scientometric approach, the present study is an applied research effort that utilizes both co-authorship and co-word analysis, along with social network analysis. This scientometric investigation identifies and analyzes key bibliometric features of research on information technology published in Persian journals. These features include, among others, highly productive authors, influential authors, the most cited and referenced papers, authorship patterns, authorship networks, author centralities, frequently used keywords, co-occurring keyword pairs, and subject clusters. The statistical population comprised 2,107 articles indexed in the field of information technology within the Iranian Science Citation Index (ISC). Data were extracted from nine specialized journals as the Persian sources that are well-known in the field and have been indexed in the ISC database. A keyword search for the phrase "IT" in the title field of the article search page yielded 287 articles. To analyze, visualize, and summarize the data, the software packages and "Excel" were utilized.Findings: The results of the study indicated that the average number of authors per article among the papers was 2.61. "Hamid Hassanpour, with 20 published articles, and "Mohammad Javad Valdan Zoj, with 19 published articles, were the leading authors in terms of article count (considered highly productive authors). In contrast, "Abolfazl Shahabadi" and "Manouchehr Manteghi, with 49 and 40 citations respectively, were recognized as the most cited authors (considered highly influential authors) in the field of Information Technology (IT). The average number of citations per article was less than one, specifically 0.95. Articles on "Organizational Agility" and "Open Innovation" were identified as the most cited works in this domain. Additionally, the average number of sources cited per article was 29.8. The number of contributions that produced articles accounted for 42.5 percent of all publications. Of these articles, 39.7 percent were authored by three co-authors. The largest co-authorship network comprised 35 individual authors. "Mohammad Javad Valdan Zoj, "Sepehr Ghazi Nouri, and "Maghsoud Amiri" were the leading authors in the field of Information Technology (IT) based on their degree, betweenness, and closeness centralities, respectively. The keywords “Information and Communication Technology”, “Information Technology”, and "Knowledge Management" were the three most frequently used terms in this field. The most common pair of co-words among the author-assigned keywords was "knowledge management - information technology, followed by - information and communication technology, - information technology, technology - education. Clusters in the field of IT were illustrated using 104 high-frequency keywords that appeared at least six times. The clusters included "Genetic Algorithm, "Knowledge-Based Development, "Research and Innovation, "Human Resources Productivity, "Higher Education, "Electronic Development, and "Knowledge Management. The network revealed eight main clusters, with the largest cluster containing 32 keywords and the smallest consisting of four keywords. These eight clusters were named as follows: with 32 keywords, with 16 keywords, with 14 keywords, with 12 keywords, with 10 keywords, with four keywords.Conclusion: In conclusion, there is a pressing need to focus more on the production of articles related to specialized topics within the field of information technology for subject integration. Particular emphasis should be placed on the quality of the content in these articles, as well as the necessity for increased participation of women in the creation of articles in the information technology sector.

Background and aim: Engaging in research and familiarizing oneself with the research field are integral aspects of student development programs, particularly at postgraduate level. This study aims to analyze and map the co-authorship network within publications produced by the student research committee of Iran's Ministry of Health and Medical Education. Materials and methods: This is an applied research that utilizes scientometric techniques. The research community includes 2178 documents with the organizational affiliation of the Student Research Committee of Medical Sciences Universities of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, which were retrieved from the Scopus database from 1985 to 2023. After data cleaning in Excel software and data homogenization, the data were transferred to BibExcel for frequency analysis. Subsequently, UCINET software was employed to calculate the correlation and centrality matrix. Furthermore, VosViewer software was used to visualize the data through network maps. Findings: An analysis of student research committee publications revealed 900 co-authored articles. Salari and Mohammadi exhibited the highest co-authorship frequency, with 10 publications. The findings showed that 38 countries participated in the scientific productions of the student research committee. America and England have cooperated the most with authors of student research committees with 58 and 14 scientific publications, respectively. Yousefi, Nouri, and Mohammadi emerged as the most prolific research committee authors. Sadeghi got the highest score in terms of centrality index and Karimi got the highest score in terms of closeness and intermediateness index. Furthermore, the five-author co-authorship pattern represented the most prevalent format (19.04%), with the single-author format accounting for less than 1% of publications. Conclusion: In studies by student research committee, the five-author co-authorship pattern has been the dominant pattern among the scientific documents of the student research committees, which indicates proper scientific cooperation among students.

1. IntroductionPublic libraries are among the essential pillars of a democratic society, serving as symbols of social progress and civil pride in the pursuit of lifelong learning. As these libraries cater to various segments of society, trained and knowledgeable personnel, referred to as librarians or information specialists, play a crucial role in identifying and meeting users' information needs. In line with their responsibilities towards different societal groups, they must adapt their service delivery methods concurrently with societal advancements. Today, with recent technological advancements, achieving this requires librarians to primarily possess digital literacy.2. Literature ReviewGiven recent technological advancements, it has been established that primarily, librarians must possess digital literacy skills. On the other hand, previous research indicates that most managers believe a precise understanding of personality traits is crucial in management science because individuals' personality structures significantly influence their perception, evaluation, and response to the environment (Rostami et al., 2009). One of the most effective and comprehensive theories proposed regarding personality is the Five-Factor Model by Costa and McCrae (1992). According to this theory, the personality structure comprises hierarchical dimensions of Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to Experience, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness. Conscientiousness, or Dutifulness, is at the highest level and can be broken down into lower-level facets or traits. Additionally, studies show that digital literacy skills correlate with various managerial dimensions, highlighting the significance of identifying the personality structure of human resources, particularly in organizations. According to White (2002), personality traits can be utilized to predict behaviors and job performance of individuals. Since public libraries are among the centers that, in comparison to other types of libraries, serve as crucial informational hubs to various segments of society, they are considered one of the most significant cultural bases. Therefore, in this regard, the personality of librarians can undoubtedly be influential. Their manner of interaction can play a pivotal role in attracting users to libraries. Therefore, this research aims to determine the relationship between personality traits and digital literacy skills among librarians in public libraries of a practical nature, employing a survey method.3. MethodologyData collection involved using two questionnaires: the McCrae and Costa personality traits questionnaire and the digital literacy skills questionnaire. The statistical population of this research comprised 170 librarians from public libraries in Kermanshah province, with a sample size of 118, determined using Morgan's table. Data analysis was performed using descriptive and inferential statistics with the SPSS software.4. ResultsThe correlation coefficient between personality traits and digital literacy skills was positive and equal to 0.48, indicating a moderate correlation between these two variables. Furthermore, the correlation coefficients between the personality traits of Neuroticism, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Openness to Experience, and Conscientiousness with digital literacy skills were positive, and based on the regression line slope in the scatterplot, Extraversion, Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism had the greatest to least impact on this relationship, respectively.5. DiscussionThe results of the present study revealed that the most influential trait in digital literacy is neuroticism. Perhaps one of the major reasons for the significant relationship between neuroticism and digital literacy is the presence of strong and face-to-face interactions with visitors, high motivation, and attention to career advancement. It's possible that one of the reasons many librarians gravitate towards digital literacy skills is to find relief from obsessive thoughts, anxiety, and life stresses. Another reason could be that the virtual world serves as an escape for librarians from stress, fear, and life difficulties. Therefore, it can be said that personality traits, particularly neuroticism, predict librarians' use or non-use of digital literacy skills. Consequently, individuals high in neuroticism may be attracted to and develop a habit of acquiring digital literacy skills due to the presence of these traits and their inability to cope with such problems, seemingly helping them overcome feelings of loneliness, boredom, and inadequacy.6. ConclusionIn conclusion, the findings of this research provide a clear representation of the relationship and role of librarians' personality traits in digital literacy skills. It is essential for librarians to become aware of their weaknesses in terms of digital literacy skills and take the initiative to enhance their knowledge in this area. Digital literacy skills undoubtedly assist librarians in this regard. If librarians lack sufficient digital literacy skills, they will not be able to provide better services to users based on modern search techniques and information retrieval methods.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between organizational citizenship behavior, leader-member exchange, and perceived supervisor support among employees of public libraries in Kurdistan province.Method: The present research method is a survey type in terms of practical purpose and data collection method. The statistical population of this study includes all employees of public libraries in Kurdistan province, totaling 99 people, which was determined using the census method due to the small population size. Three standard questionnaires were utilized to collect data on Organizational Citizenship Behavior (Kanuski, 1996), Leaders-Member Exchange (Gran and Joey Bain, 1995), and perceived support for the Supervisor (Rubin, 2013). The content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by five professors of information science, and the reliability was assessed using Cronbach's alpha, resulting in values of 0.785, 0.845, and 0.938. Data analysis was conducted using statistical coefficients such as correlation coefficient and multiple linear regression in SPSS software version 22.Findings: The findings showed a significant relationship between leader-member exchange and all five dimensions of organizational citizenship behavior, as well as the perceived support of the supervisor. Additionally, a significant relationship was found between the perceived support of the supervisor and organizational citizenship behavior. The perceived support of the supervisor was identified to play a mediating role in the relationship between leader-member exchange and the dimensions of altruism, respect, and humility. Lastly, the gender of the respondents was found to be related to the altruistic dimension.Conclusion: Based on the results obtained, it can be said that employees are more likely to engage in organizational citizenship behavior in response to perceived support from the supervisor rather than as a tool for rewarding. In other words, employee's express organizational citizenship behavior because they feel satisfied with the support of their supervisor. What is certain is that it is not only the role of the supervisor that strengthens the behavior of organizational citizenship in the workplace; organizational citizenship behavior is a team effort.

Nowadays, bibliometrics has been an interdisciplinary field with all scientific fields as its scope. The present study is related to the scientometric study of articles in information retrieval produced in Iran from the beginning of the topic in Persian papers to 2019. This research was an applied research which has been done using scientometric techniques such as citation analysis and co-word analysis. The data required for this research have been extracted from the "Islamic World Science Citation" database. The statistical population was 395 articles in the field of information retrieval, which was analyzed using "BibExcel," "VOSviewer," and " Excel" software packages. Some inconsistencies in author names and keywords have been tried to be unified. There was an increasing trend in published papers and received citations. Highly-cited and most influential authors in the field are well-known in the field. "Rahmatullah Fattahi" is in the first place with 11 articles and 16 citations. 77.72% of the articles have been authored in groups (two or more authors) and the two-authored approach with 154 articles has the most co-authorship approach. Six hundred twenty-six authors participated in writing the articles, which were repeated 923 times in various articles. The largest co-authorship network consists of 27 nodes (authors). "Najla Hariry," "Farideh Osareh," and "Saeed Rezaei Sharifabadi" have the highest score in terms of the centrality of rank, intermediate, and closeness among other researchers, respectively. The keywords "information retrieval," "search engines" and "internet" were the most frequently used keywords in the field of information retrieval. The word pairs of "recall - retrieval accuracy" and "Internet - search engines" were the first and second most frequent pairs of co-occurring-word pairs, respectively. Thematic clustering of articles in this field indicates the existence of eight subject clusters: "search, processing and evaluation information," "Storage and retrieval in information systems," "information behavior," "indexing," "information management and Scientometrics," "search engines," "precision and recall" and "information literacy." Co-authorship network showed that authors in the field tended to author with collaborating each other. Considerable items on information retrival have been published in Persian The acceptance of the co-authorship approach in the production of scientific works in information retrieval indicates the willingness of authors to write co-authored research. However, considering that 54.9% of the authors of this study did not receive the H index, the authors should make more efforts to produce quality articles. The largest cluster of this research is the "search, processing and evaluation information" cluster, which indicates the importance of this issue in information retrieval, and the smallest cluster is the "information literacy" cluster, which needs further research in this research field. The study helps authors identify hot topics and highly-considered subjects in information retrieval and provide a pattern for conducting scientometric analyses in similar fields.

Aim: This study aims to review and compare the librarians' and users' views on the use of customer knowledge management in public libraries in Hamadan province.Methodoligy: The method of the present study is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive survey in terms of the data collection method. The statistical population of this study includes all users and librarians of public libraries in Hamadan province. The total number of these libraries, according to the Statistical Research Office of the Provincial Public Libraries, is equal to 113 libraries (100 institutional libraries and 13 participatory and independent libraries) with 170 librarians and 67,339 active members. In this study, due to a large number of librarians, all of them were selected as a sample using the census method. The sample size among users using Cochran's formula was equal to 382 people. Two researcher-made questionnaires with 22 items were used to collect data. In order to analyze the data, a t-test of two independent samples was used in SPSS software version 22.Findings: The data analysis results showed a significant difference between the two groups of librarians and users in terms of the use of the component of knowledge about the customer and knowledge of the customer in public libraries of Hamadan province. But in terms of the use of knowledge component for the customer, no significant difference was observed between the two groups of librarians and users.Conclusion: Based on the obtained results, librarians believe that the two components of customer knowledge and customer knowledge have been observed in public libraries of Hamadan province, but users rarely see any indication of these two dimensions in public libraries, which should definitely be done. To be considered by the library management. This is because either librarian does not properly observe the dimensions of customer knowledge management or users are not familiar with these dimensions and have commented based on personal opinion and without considering the dimensions.

Purpose: This study aims to identify the factors affecting non-use of rural libraries by women from the perspective of non-user women, i.e. women who are not members of libraries and are not library users. Library factors, internet access, accessibility, and services appropriateness to needs are among the items which in most studies have been considered to have the greatest impact on people using libraries. However, due to the fact that less research has examined the problems and challenges facing women in accessing information resources and their going to libraries, this study was conducted with the main purpose of examining this important issue. Method: This research was conducted using a qualitative approach and the content analysis method. The statistical population of the study consists of non-user women in 8 rural libraries of Kermanshah. To collect data, semi-structured interviews were conducted and in order to ensure the validity and reliability of the study, Lincoln and Guba (1985) evaluation method was used. In order validate the research tool, the research process was performed by two experts and two coders were used to codify several interview samples, ensure the uniformity of the coders’ viewpoints, and write notes during the research in Excel sheets. By applying this process, the reliability of the research data was significantly increased. The sampling method of the research was snowball and the transcripts of the interviews was analyzed using the sotware MAXQDA 2018 by applying three methods: quantitative, structural, and interpretive. Findings: After extracting the main sentences from the transcripts of the interviews and placing them in a file, first conceptualization was done and then according to the extracted concepts, the category appropriate for each concept was selected. In the coding process, each phrase was marked as a corresponding code according to its meaning, concept, and implication under a specific heading, and was classified in the MAXQDA environment. In the next step, after omitting some of the codes that had thematic overlap, four main dimensions including environmental, personal, social and cultural, and special factors were identified, and 36 conceptual codes were extracted. Finally, due to the frequency of repetitive concepts, it was found that “special factors” had the greatest impact on women not going to rural libraries and “environmental factors” showed the least role in this regard. Originality: This study has looked at the issue of women’s access to information resources and libraries from a different perspective and has focused on non-user women. Obviously, drawing non-user women to rural libraries can lead to the promotion of knowledge and information of this group and, consequently, can have a direct impact on families and improve the position of the library in the minds of society. Therefore, rural libraries should pay more attention to this important issue and pave the way for providing services to this group.

Objective: The purpose of this study is to identify the role of the network society in the professional identity of librarians of Astan Quds Razavi. It is based on Castells's network society theory.Methodology: The present study was qualitative in terms of type of research and has an applied orientation. In this research, the method of thematic analysis has been used in order to discover the concepts related to the network society and the professional identity of Quds Razavi librarians. In order to provide the data needed to analyze and answer the research questions, semi-structured interview tools were used. The sampling method in the present study is non-probability purposeful. The sample size of the present study consists of 14 librarians of Astan Quds libraries. The data obtained from this research have been analyzed through qualitative thematic analysis method.Findings: As a result of analyzing the interviews using thematic analysis method, 5 comprehensive themes of professional roles and goals, how to interact with the global network, spheres of influence, the impact of professional identity from participation in global networks and the effects of librarians' interaction with a networked society on the librarianship profession has been extracted in connection with the role of a networked society in the professional identity of librarians of Astan Quds Razavi. Also, these 5 comprehensive themes include 15 organizing themes, which have been extracted from 135 basic themes.Conclusion: According to the research findings, the development of society towards the global network has always been part of librarians' concern about the job threats posed by it. Challenges such as rapid technological change and the proliferation of information that is sometimes unscientific and undocumented, and the diminishing role of books, libraries, and librarians, have raised concerns for librarians. But what is important and plays a significant role in strengthening the sense of identity of librarians is the development of information services and countless service opportunities that will be achieved by improving the skills of librarians and highlighting the role of professional and experienced managers. In other words, with the advancement of technology and global networks, the main mission of libraries and consequently librarians do not change, but with the development of individual competencies of librarians and the development of libraries and library services, not only their professional identity it is not a threat, but only the way in which libraries and librarians operate in the context of digital development, evolving and evolving. Librarians can develop their social and personal communication network as the global network community develops, and by synchronizing information and transferring experiences and providing the necessary training to the audience to participate in these communication networks, librarians can. In this regard, the role of professional, experienced and motivating managers in the sense of identity of librarians is very important. Librarians can help maintain libraries in an ever-changing world of information by developing a social network and expanding voluntary activities in an interactive and collaborative manner nationally and globally.

Background. Journals are one of the channels of scientific communication among experts in the specialized fields of human knowledge as well as a tools for the rapid and widespread dissemination of new research achievements. It is important for founders of scientific journals to explore if the publications of the journal meet the performance of academic journals interms of subjects and collaboration of resarchers. The aim of this study was to analyze the scientometrics of a decade of activity of the Medical Journal of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. Methods. The method of this research was scientometric analysis. The statistical population of the study included articles published in Tabriz Medical Journal from 2010 to 2019, which are indexed in the Islamic World Science Citation Database (ISC). We analysed publications in Tabriz Medical Journal from 2010 to 2019. To collect the required data, the title of the journal was searched on the website of the Iranian Science Citation Index in the "Advanced Search" section by filtering the desired years. BibExcel, Ucinet, NetDraw and VOS-Weaver software were used for data analysis. Results. Seven hundred ninety-four articles written by 1947 authors were published in Tabriz Medical Journal. The authors' names were repeated a total of 3111 times in various articles. The average number of authors for each article was 3.92. The citation effect (average citation per article) was 0/36. Each article included an average of 21.56 citations. 31 of the 794 papers were single-author papers while 763 papers were published as scientific collaborations between two or more researchers. There were four authors in the co-authored template. The largest co-authorship network consisted of 92 authors. 2449 keywords were used to describe 794 articles. These keywords were repeated a total of 3118 times in various articles. The most common keywords included "children", "rat" and "polymorphism" with frequencies of 20, 19 and 17, respectively. Thematic clusters included "quality of life", "type 1 diabetes", "aerobic activity", "antibiotic resistance", "breast cancer", "type 2 diabetes", "cardiovascular disease", "drinking water" and "Stress and depression". Conclusion. The results of this study indicated the existence of a good status of scientific collaborations among authors based on the patterns of writing journal articles. All thematic clusters obtained were in compliance with the thematic axes or thematic specializations existing in the journal. The average citation per article was about 0/36 percent; thus, the status of the citation rate for the journal articles was not high enough. The index of journals in international databases has a positive effect on increasing the citation rate of journal articles. Therefore, it is suggested that new measures be taken to increase the visibility and impact factor of the journal. Background Journals are one of the channels of scientific communication amongexperts in the specialized fields of human knowledge as well as a tool for the rapid and widespread dissemination of new research achievements. On the other hand, scientometric studies are used as a practical and appropriate tool for better understanding and mapping of research processes and scientific research. Analysis of scientific output and products contributes greatly to the scientific development of various subject areas, and enables researchers to become acquainted with the scientific gaps in research areas, identify reputable people in this field, and expand their research topics with a more open mind. The aim of this study was to analyze the scientometrics of a decade of activity of the Medical Journal of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. Methods This study has used scientometrics analysis method and the social network analysis (SNA) approach. The statistical population of the study included articles published in Tabriz Medical Journal from 2010 to 2019, which are indexed in the Islamic World Science Citation Database (ISC). To collect the required data, the title of the journal was searched on the website of the Iranian Science Citation Index in the "Advanced Search" section by filtering the desired years. In order to prepare data for visualization and social network analysis, data processing was done using BibExcel software. In BibExcel the names of the authors and the keywords of the articles were matched with a format that is more frequent and logical in order to prevent their dispersion due to the multiplicity of writing formats. For example, keywords were examined in terms of plural and singular formats, use of synonymous words for a keyword, differences in written form, use of semicolons in some of them, and use of written English format. Also, the names of some authors were in several different formats, in order to prevent them from being counted as separate records in scientometrics software, they were modified and standardized to make the results more accurate, based on the most poular name of authors. "NetDraw" software was used to draw the co-authors' indexes of the article authors, Ucinet software was used to determine centrality degree, centrality betweenness and centrality closeness and the software (VOSViewer) was used to specify the co-occurrence network of keywords. To draw the thematic clustering network of journal articles, a threshold of 4 times repeating was considered eligibility criteria for keywords selection. By drawing thematic clusters, the thematic topics of the journal subset were identified. Results Seven hundred ninety-four articles have been published in Tabriz Medical Journal within this period. The number of authors was 1947. Also, the names of the authors have been repeated a total of 3111 times in various articles. The average number of authors for each article was 3.92. The citation effect (average citation per article) was 0/36. Out of all authors, only 122 articles (15.36%) received citations and had an H-index. This means that at least one of their articles has been cited at least once and 672 authors (84.63%) have not received any citation from any of their articles, and they do not have an H-index. The results showed that there were 21.56 sources for each article. According to the results, only 31 out of 794 articles were single-author articles and 763 articles were produced as scientific collaborations between two or more researchers. There were four authors in the co-authored template. The complete co-authorship network consists of 99 authors, each of whom has had at least 5 articles in this journal during the period. The network consists of three clusters with different numbers of nodes, which had 2 and 5 researchers, respectively, with the largest co-authorship network consisting of 92 authors. The Rank Centrality Index reflects the activity and reputation of a node among other nodes in the network. The use of Centrality Betweenness Index is to facilitate understanding how a given node is positioned in the shortest path among other nodes in the network. The Centrality Closeness Index (shorter path) of one factor relates to all other factors; it measures the centrality closeness distance of a node from the other nodes in the network, and provides the average length of the shortest path between that node and the other nodes in the network.Morteza Ghojazadeh had the highest centrality in all three indicators of centrality (degree, betweenness and Closeness). In describing 794 articles, 2449 keywords have been used, which have been repeated 3118 times in different articles. The most common keywords included "children", "rat" and "polymorphism" with frequencies of 20, 19 and 17, respectively. Thematic clusters included "quality of life", "type 1 diabetes", "aerobic activity", "antibiotic resistance", "breast cancer", "type 2 diabetes", "cardiovascular disease", "drinking water" and "Stress and depression". In total, 89 homonymous pairs were accompanied by a frequency of 1 to 4 times. The word pair "Escherichia coli - PCR" with a frequency of 4 had the most repetition. The synonymous network of repetitive keywords of the medical journal indicated the existence of 9 thematic clusters during the years 2010 to 2019. The largest thematic cluster consisted of 8 keywords and the smallest thematic cluster consisted of 2 keywords. The thematic clusters were: "Quality of life", "Type 1 diabetes", "Aerobic activity", "Antibiotic resistance", "Breast cancer", "Type 2 diabetes", "Cardiovascular disease", "Drinking water" And "Anxiety and Depression." Conclusion The results of this study indicated the existence of a good status of scientific collaborations between authors based on the patterns of writing journal articles. All thematic clusters obtained were in compliance with the thematic axes or the existing thematic specializations in the journal. The average citation per article is about 0/36 percent; thus, the status of the citation rate for the journal articles was not high enough. The index of journals in international databases has a positive effect on increasing the citation rate of journal articles. Therefore, it is suggested that new measures be taken to increase the visibility and impact factor of the journal. Practical implications of research According to the results of the present study, it can be stated that in order to draw a long-term perspective and formulate a strategy for the development of journals, it is necessary to evaluate journals with quantitative and qualitative scientometric indicators, and plannings for the future should be done by taking into account the results of journals in the past. Ethical Considerations The present study was extracted from the master's thesis of Knowledge and Information Science approved by Payame Noor University, Tonekabon branch, number 11112397. Conflict of Interests The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. Acknowledgment We would like to thank all people who helped us.

This study tries to evaluate the experimental behavior of graduate students of Ilam University when using mobile electronic devices (mobile phones, tablets and laptops) based on the protection motivation theory of data breach. This research is of applied-survey type. The statistical population of research includes graduate students of Ilam University. Data collection tool was based on the questionnaires introduced by Boss et al., Woon et al., Claar and Johnson, Johnson and Warkentin, and Posey et al. For data analysis, structural equation modeling was used to fit the model and test the hypotheses of research in AMOS software using partial least squares method. Results indicated that there is a positive relationship between the perceived threat sensitivity, response effectiveness, self-efficacy and the possibility of using the security of mobile electronic devices with the protection motivation. In addition, the findings showed that there is not a meaningful relationship between the perceived threat intensity and the motivation of protecting the mobile electronic devices. There is a negative (indirect) relationship between the perceived response cost and the protection motivation. Generally, this study emphasized that the confrontational assessment process is a more important factor than the threat assessment process in increasing users’ protection motivation.

Purpose: Plagiarism is copying words, texts, images, and the like, and using the thoughts of others as one's own. The purpose of this study is to determine the extent of various factors on the tendency to plagiarism among Ph.D. students of Bu-Ali University. Method: The method of the present research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of data collection method. The statistical population of this study consists of all Ph.D. students of Bu-Ali University. The total number of students at Bu-Ali University is equal to 832 students, which according to Cochran's formula, the sample size was equal to 263 people. Five questionnaires were used to collect data. The reliability of these questionnaires through Cronbach's alpha was equal to 0.948, 0.955, 0.968, 986, and 0.975 respectively. In order to test research hypotheses, structural equation modeling in Warp PLS7 software was used. Findings: The results of data analysis showed that the variables of perception of plagiarism, attitude to plagiarism and personal harassment have a negative and significant effect on the rate of plagiarism of students. Also, the variable of academic jurisprudence has a positive and significant effect on the rate of plagiarism of students.Conclusion: It seems that students' knowledge, understanding and awareness of plagiarism and its examples, policies and legal punishment in this field are at a low level. That the officials and administrators of the universities take the necessary measures in order to make the students more aware and familiar with the consequences of this work.

Background: Nursing is one of the most important areas of medical sciences whose developments including its scientific publications can influence health care. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate nursing articles published from 2013 to 2018, and to provide a comprehensive view of common topical clusters in this research area. Materials and Methods: In this practical research, bibliometrics method and co-word analysis technique are used. The study population included all the articles in nursing area indexed in Web of Science from 2013 to 2018. The bibliometrics software, including BibExcel, UCINET, and SPSS was used to analyze the data. Results: Results indicated that the most frequently used nursing words in nursing research articles were “Quality of life,” “Aged,” “Education,” and “Nursing.” Moreover, the pairs such as “Anxiety-Depression”, “Education, Nursing-Students, Nursing” and “Depression--Quality of life” were the most frequent co-occurrences. The use of hierarchical clustering led to the formation of seven topical clusters in Nursing: “Nursing care for the Aged,” “Self-care,” “Physical, emotional, and social support, “Mother and child health,” “Preventing nursing care,” “Nursing profession Research,” and “Quality of nursing care.” Conclusions: The growth of nursing scientific productions is an indicative of the importance of this subject area in healthcare services; however, there is no balanced growth in various subjects.

Purpose: Knowledge Organizing is one of the oldest and most basic topics in Library and information science Whose main domain is immutable over time; However, the environment in which the organization operates has changed dramatically and will continue to change. Published research often describes only certain aspects that show only a partial picture of the perspective of its knowledge organization research. In fact, it is difficult for researchers to get an overview of this field by reviewing such articles. Scientometric methods are expected to help meet this need. This study aims to investigate the centrality indicators in the co-authorship network of articles in the field of knowledge organization. Methodology: This research is an applied type that has done with the approach of scientometrics and analysis of social networks. The research records are compiled based on all articles in the two journals of Knowledge Organization and Cataloging & Classification Quarterly as well as 100 keywords related to the field of knowledge organization indexed in Web of Science from 1900 to 2019. Finally, the retrieved records were limited to research papers, conference papers, and review papers and limited to the subject of Library and information filed. Out of 23,525 authors who were involved in the publication of 17,950 articles, 311 with at least 8 articles were analyzed using UCINET software. After that, a square matrix of dimensions 311 by 311 was formed, and finally the co-authorship network was drawn based on the centrality indicators. Bib Excel software was used to draw the matrix and NetDraw software was used to draw the co-authorship network. Findings: Results indicated taht the average number of authors per article is 1.31. 23,525 authors have contributed articles in this field, of which Professor Birger Yorland of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, is the most active researcher in Knowledge organization with 43 articles. Professor Wolfang J. Stoke of the University of Düsseldorf, Germany, came in second with 36 papers. Professor Borgman of UCLA is third with 31 articles. Analysis of data related to co-authorship analysis indicates that out of 17,950 articles under review, 8964 (49.93%) have been written with the mono-writing approach as the most common approach in knowledge organization and other articles (50.07%) in the format Co-authors have been offered, of which two authors (24.68%) have a larger share. In examining the characteristics of centrality indicators, Zheng, Feroo, Giles, and Goh, gained the top scores in the Degree Centrality, Closeness Centrality, Betweenness Centrality, and Eigen vector, respectively. Conclusion: According to the results of the present study, it seems that prominent researchers in the field of knowledge organization, despite being productive, have not been able to play a significant role in the formation of the co-authorship network in this field.

the purpose of present research was to determine the relationship between multiple variables (social desirability, mental norms, academic self- efficacy, plagiarism knowledge, purpose, pressure, time management, risk) with the possibility of plagiarism among post- graduate students of Ilam University. Methodology: the present research is applied in terms of purpose and is survey in terms of research implementation. It is a correlation research in terms of the manner of collecting the required data and the relationship between the variables. The statistical population of the present research includes all post- graduate students of Ilam university.The questionnaire was distributed among them by random sampling and self- developed questionnaires of risk, time management, pressure, objective and policy of APA Johnson (2018), mental norms questionnaire of Montana & Kespzick (2008), Academic self- efficacy questionnaire of Downport & Lan (2006), the possibility of plagiarism questionnaire of Shred et al (2002), plagiarism questionnaire of Yeh (2007). In data analysis, simple correlation coefficient and Structural equation modeling was used in WARP PLS software. Findings: The results of research showed that excessive pressure on students to do homework beyond their ability, lack of knowledge about plagiarism and plagiarism knowledge, as well as poor time management to do homework on time cause students to turn to this immoral phenomenon. Therefore, university administrators and professors can reduce the prevalence of this phenomenon by holding educational classes on plagiarism and its consequences, increasing students’ self- efficacy, creating a proper culture and also teaching proper time management, and prevent it from being committed.

Introduction: Recognizing the current situation and comparing research activities on various topics has made it important today to evaluate research activities using scientometrics techniques. The purpose of this study was to conduct co-word and co-authorship analysis of the articles published in the Journal of Health Information Management (JHIM) from 2009 to 2018. Methods: The data for this study were extracted from Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC). The statistical population of the study consisted of 807 articles published in the JHIM in a ten-year period (2009-2018). Results: Isfahan University of Medical Sciences was the most prolific institution with the production of 236 articles. Over 94% of articles were published collaboratively. Mohammad Hossein Yarmohammadian had the highest scores in terms of centrality indicators. The keyword "hospitals" was the most frequently used keywords in the JHIM. Hierarchical clustering indicated seven clusters with the themes of hospital services and performance, knowledge management in universities, hospital information systems, quantitative measurement studies of health information, health Indicators, health information management and technology, and quality of health care in hospitals. Conclusion: The scientific collaboration approach among authors has been relatively good at producing scientific works. However, there are several authors with a limited number of articles. There are also a small number of core institutions and universities in producing scientific works in the field of health information management. With the exception of the knowledge management cluster at the universities, all the obtained clusters are aligned with the journal's thematic axes.

Background and aim: Today, in scientometrics, the keywords of scientific products are used to evaluate the scientific outputs of different scientific fields. In this research, the keywords of scientific products of Iranian experts in the field of air pollution indexed in international databases were used for content analysis. Materials and methods: This applied study was done using scientometric techniques and software. The data of this research were extracted from the Web of Science from 1983 to 2018. The research population consisted of 1054 documents using Latin keywords related to infection and its roots and in accordance with the database search strategy. The Bib Excel, SPSS, UCINET and Excel were used to analyze the data. Findings: The findings of this study showed that in terms of frequency, the keywords "Tehran" and "suspended particles" had the highest frequency. Findings also indicated that the scientific products of Iranian researchers in the field of air pollution consisted of 11 clusters so that clusters 1 and 11 were the most frequent clusters with 14 and 13 words, respectively. According to the findings, American researchers had the most cooperation with Iranian researchers by producing 91 documents. Moreover, in the period under study, research and executive institutions in the field of air pollution had the lowest scientific products. Conclusion: The scientific productions of Iranian researchers have been growing in the specified years. Furthermore, the word density maps in the field of air pollution illustrate the word density of "air quality" and "suspended particles" in the maps.

Introduction: Assessing the quality of mobile websites related to libraries is one of the new topics of study. The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate the quality of the mobile websites of the libraries of the top Iranian universities of medical sciences. Methods: This was an applied research, done by the descriptive-survey method. The study population included the libraries’ mobile websites of the top fifty Iranian universities of medical sciences, which ranked highest in the webometrics ranking of universities in January 2019. The quality of services was evaluated using a checklist included fourteen indicators. Descriptive statistical methods and Friedman test were utilized for data analysis. Results: “Quick Access to Databases,” “Contact us,” and “Observing and Searching Library Catalog” with a mean rank of 10.01 had the best position among indicators. “Study Hall Reservation” with a mean rank of 3.01 and “Library Floors’ Map/Plan” with a mean rank of 3.99 had the worst situation among the fourteen indicators studied, respectively. Conclusion: The results showed that some indicators such as “Quick Access to Databases,” “Observing and Searching Library Catalog,” and “Library News and Events” were more useful than others. These are the indicators that users of libraries’ mobile websites usually need. Medical informatics administrators and designers at medical universities can use the results of this research to improve the quality of services of mobile websites of university libraries.

Introduction: Applying bibliometric indicators, this study aims at investigating the status of Persian sports medicine research based on the records in the Islamic World Science Citation Database (ISC).Material and Methods: This was a scientometric applied study in which the bibliometric techniques and social network analysis were used in conducting the investigations. The study population consisted of 1566 Persian articles published in the field of sports medicine indexed in ISC database until 2018. BibExcel, UCINet, Netdraw, and VOSviewer were among the software that were used for analyzing data and drawing maps in the study.Results: Initial analysis of the data showed that 1566 articles under study received a total of 266 citations, with an average of 0.17 citations per article, which is a very low level. “Sadeghi H”, “Alizadeh M”, and “Rajabi R” were considered to be the Iranian top researchers in the field of sports medicine in terms of the number of articles. “Ebrahimi Takamjani E” owned the best position in the network. Finally, the results uncovered that 8 thematic clusters were formed in sports medicine research.Conclusion: The results showed a relatively steady growth in the number of sports medicine articles indexed in ISC in 2010s. Moreover, according to the authorship patterns, it seems that sports medicine researchers are very interested in participatory activities. Moreover, given the subject clusters of co-word analysis, research in this field seems to cover a wide range of topics.

Using a co-word analysis, this study aims to mapping the intellectual structure of Iran KIS (Knowledge and Information Science) in Islamic World Science Citation Database (ISC) during two 5-year periods from 2006 to 2015. This is an applied scientometric research which uses co-word analysis. The research population consists of 2467 articles which have been published in the KIS journals and indexed in the ISC. SPSS, BibExcel and UCInet are utilized for preparing and analyzing data and also for visualizing maps. Findings showed that in the first time period (2006-2010), 7 clusters and in the second time period (2011-2016), 13 clusters were formed which in both time periods, “scientometric cluster” is the most important one. Despite the relative overlap between clusters of the two periods, the topics in the second period were of a higher number and breadth. In both periods of study, “university” is the most frequent keyword with 82 and 149 occurrences, respectively. “Journals” is the next frequent keyword in the first period, and “academic libraries” in the second period, with the occurrences of 54 and 108, respectively. The more emphasis on the IT related issues, such as digital libraries, in the second period is one of the main differences between the two time periods.

Objective: The purpose of this research is evaluating heuristic usability of mobile website of Iranian university libraries and comparing it to top universities in the world. Methodology: This is an applied research, in which the usability of libraries’ mobile website has been investigated by heuristic evaluation method. In this research, 20top universities affiliated to the MSRT, and 20top Islamic Azad university listed in ISC and 3 world top universities listed in webometric ranking have been chosen. Data collection is based on Nielsen (1994) and Fung (2016) usability checklist. Data analysis was done by SPSS software at both descriptive statistics and nonparametric inferential statistics including Friedman and Spearman correlation coefficient.Findings: Mobile website of the universities affiliated to the MSRT is good in terms of usability. IAU’s are average in terms of usability. Furthermore, the universities affiliated to the MSRT in comparing to the top universities of the world are very good in terms of usability. IAU’s in comparing to the top universities of world are good.In terms of usability, the final ranking was this: 1. Mazandaran University 2. Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, and 3. Harvard University. Results demonstrate that there is no correlation between the ranking of ISC/webometric and ranking according to the evaluation of usability of the university libraries of the mentioned universities.Originality: It seems that paying more attention to concepts such as usability in designing the mobile website of libraries by the designers regarding wide range of users causes better communication of users with it.

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to identify and explain the extra services of libraries affiliated with the public libraries of Kermanshah province and their role in attracting children and adolescents to the library and retaining them in it. Method: In this study, a mixed methods has been used. To collect the research data, a questionnaire, a check list, and an interview with librarians were utilized. The content validity of these tools were confirmed by the experts' opinions and the reliability of the questionnaire was obtained by Cronbach's alpha coefficient (0.86). The statistical population included the members and librarians of public libraries in Kermanshah province. The sample size consisted of 100 library members and 10 librarians who were selected by both cluster sampling and quota sampling. SPSS software and Strauss & Corbin coding methods (open, axial, and selective) were used to analyze the data. Findings: The results indicated that Quran teaching, storytelling, reading and drawing competitions, celebrations and religious ceremonies, summer study, literary center, book fairs, and exhibitions of newly published books are among the extra and ancillary programs implemented in public libraries. There is no movie, music, or reading group in any of the libraries. The level of satisfaction with the painting program, reading competitions, storytelling and Quran teching, and book fairs is higher than the level of satisfaction other services. The most important barriers to providing ancillary services are lack of funds and facilities, lack of adequate space and lack of human resources. Originality/value: The provision of extra/ancillary services in the public libraries of Kermanshah province has a positive and influential role in shaping the personality of children and adolescents. Furthermore, these programs play an important role in the optimal use of leisure time and the encouragement of cultural-artistic activities for the cultural development of society. Given the specific geographical and cultural context of Kermanshah, applying these findings can prepare the ground for better educating and training the children and adolescents and highlight the role of public libraries in this process

Introduction: Since chronic heart failure is considered as one of the main causes of death around the world, it is necessary to map the intellectual structure of studies in this area. This study attempted to map the knowledge structure of chronic heart failure using document co-citation analysis. Methods: Bibliometric methodology and social network analysis were used as the research methods. The study population comprised 11967 records in the field of chronic heart failure published during the period of 2000-2015, which were retrieved from Web of Science database. The correlation matrix and hierarchical clustering were used for document co-citation analysis. Results: “Anker SD”, with 194 papers, was the most productive researcher in chronic heart failure. Again, “Anker SD”, with 12820 citations, was the most cited scientist in this field in Web of Science. “Bristow M” and “Cleland J” were the most frequent co-citation pairs within chronic heart failure, with 634 co-occurrences. Conclusion: The intellectual structure of knowledge in chronic heart failure is an evolving structure, and the clusters identified in this study can be included in the curriculum of the field. Furthermore, these results can help policymakers to identify both unaddressed and matured topics.

Aim: This study was designed to evaluate the network productions and research collaborations on toxoplasmosis worldwide. Materials and Methods: A bibliometric research was carried out using the Web of Science (WOS) database. The analysis unit was the original research articles about toxoplasmosis published between 2000 and 2016 (17 years). Results: Totally, 6,550 articles about toxoplasmosis were indexed in the WOS with the following information: (A) 18,410 researchers played a role in drafting the articles; (B) 33 different countries have contributed in the toxoplasmosis studies; (C) the USA was ranked at the first place with 2,162 publications about toxoplasmosis; and (D) "Dubey JP" was compiled and participated in 401 articles from the USA, as the highest number and main core of publications in the toxoplasmosis network. Conclusion: The main focus of the toxoplasmosis research activities in the world was article production in the indexed journals in WOS. Hence, it is necessary to strengthen the collaboration networks to improve the quality of articles. Furthermore, the priority would be the identification of institutions with a higher number of research article productions in WOS, to perform toxoplasmosis collaborative original researches according to the strategic roadmap and scientific plan of each country.

Background and Aim: Scientometric studies are one of the most effective methods of scientific evaluation in databases. The aim of this study was to investigate Breast cancer in Iran from 2000-2016. Materials and Methods: This study has an applied approach and was conducted using scientometric indices. The st tistical population was the indexed articles related to Breast cancer between the years 2000 and 2016 by Iranian researchers at the Science Web site. Results: During the period 2000-2016, researchers have published 2198 articles on Breast cancer that indicate a steady and steady increase in the number of studies conducted in this area. The results of the study showed that Qaderi is the most prolific researcher in the field of Breast cancer in terms of the number of articles in Iran, Ebrahimi and Montazeri are in the second and third positions respectively. The highest H-index belongs to Montazeri, Qaderi and Abraham, respectively. Researchers in the field of Breast cancer have collaborated with researchers from 65 countries and more with the United States and Canada. The most co-operation has been between researchers in Tehran and Tabriz. The analysis of the keywords used in Breast cancer research in the form of supragloss showed that Iran, Apoptosis and Polymorphism were the most frequent keywords in the studied works. Conclusion: The upward trend in Breast cancer research indicates the growing importance of this area in Iran. Given the global growth of Breast cancer research and the importance of international research participation, Iranianresearchers should more and more engage in scientific collaboration with their counterparts abroad.

Among the prevalent topics in Knowledge and Information Science, the scientometrics studies are of special interest. Applying co-citation analysis, this study investigated the landscape of research in scientometrics and related metric areas and revealed the fundamental themes of it. The initial data of this study (including scientometrics-related documents) have been extracted from the Web of Science. Following the analysis of author co-citation frequency, correlation matrix, and dendrogram, results indicated that the co-citation pairs of “Garfield-Moed”, “Egghe-Rousseau”, and “Egghe-Hirsch” received the highest frequency among other pairs. Moreover, using hierarchical clustering led to the tracing primary themes in scientometrics research. One of interesting findings in this research is a researcher named “Kousha” which has made a crucial rule in the development of webomtrics’ cluster.

Purpose: To identify major events in the development of Reference Services literature. Methodology: Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy (RPYS) technique is used. Initial data was obtained from the Scopus by scientometrics method. A comprehensive search strategy led to the retrieval of 5007 records. RPYS software was used to revise data. Excel application was used for visualization of findings. Findings: Distribution of publications throughout the 19th century revealed 1 peak in 1876 for “Personal Relations between Librarians and Readers by Samuel Swett Green. Three peaks were identified in the 20th century, respectively in 1964 (related to Rothstein, “The measurement and evaluation of reference service”), 1982 (related to Katz, W. A. “Introduction to reference work: Reference services and reference processes”), and 1986 (related to Mellon, C. A. “Library anxiety: A grounded theory and its development”). Originality/value: The value of the present research is for using RPYS to study historical roots of Reference Services literature. None of the few studies by bibliometric methods in the realm of Reference Services has investigated historical origins

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between social influence with productivity and performance of researchers in Quran and Hadith Studies. Methodology: This research was conducted using scientometrics’ prevalent techniques, such as co-authorship and network analysis. Quran and Hadith Studies indexed in Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) during 2006-2015 comprised the population of study. The researchers have used a combination of BibExcel, UCINet, and NetDraw for matrix generation and mapping of Quran and Hadith Studies. Findings: Based on the data analysis, the average number of authors per article was 1.6 in the field of Quran and Hadith. Moreover, the average citation per article was 0.1, which indicated that researchers in this area did not refer much to each others’ articles. Findings also showed that there was a significant relationship between social influence and productivity, as well as social influence and performance. In addition, the results indicated that the social network of researchers in the field of Quran and Hadith was loose and low-density. Conclusion: The results of this study indicated that the Quran and Hadith scholars had a low level of collaboration and rarely refered to the works of their colleagues. The results of regression test showed that 10% of variance related to performance was determined by social influence (R2= 0.109) and 22% of variance related to productivity was determined by social influence (R2= 0.218). So researchers in this field should try to form research teams and have a co-authorship strategy.

Among the topics studied in the context of scientometrics, the issue of the scholarly influence is of special interest. This study tries to test the components in the scholarly influence model based on iMetrics studies, and also to find potential relations among these components. The study uses a bibliometric methodology. Since the researchers aim to determine the relationship between variables, this research is of correlation type. The initial data of this study, which comprises 5944 records in the field of iMetrics during 1978-2014, have been retrieved from Web of Science. To calculate the most of measures involved in each kind of influence, the researchers used UCINet and BibExcel software moreover, some indices have been calculated manually using Excel. After calculating all measures included in three types of influence, the researchers used the Smart PLS to test both the model and research hypotheses. The results of data analysis using the software Smart PLS confirmed the scholarly influence model and indicated significant correlation between the variables in the model. To be more precise, findings uncovered that social influence is associated with both ideational and venue influence. Moreover, the venue influence is associated with ideational influence. If researchers test the scholarly influence model in some other areas and led to positive outcomes, it is hoped that the policy-makers use a combination of variables involved in the model as a measure to evaluate the scholarly influence of researchers and to decision-makings related to purposes such as promotion, recruitment, and so on.

Purpose: Specialized Library of Quran and Hadith Studies of Astan Quds Razavi plays a crucial role in providing specialized services to the research community. Therefore, evaluating the service quality and awareness from users’ perspective can help managers improve and provide higher quality services. Methodology: This research is a survey. Data were collected by the Libqual International questionnaire. The research population consisted of all members of the Central Library (141633 members) who user the specialized Library of Quran and Hadith Studies (except for children). 384 participants were selected by simple random sampling. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 19. Findings: According to the dimensions of Libqual, the “effectiveness of the library” (7.78) corresponds with the least expectations but is far from the maximum expected. “Control Information” (7.65) and “the library as a place” (7.7) correspond to the minimum and maximum services expected. Conclusion: The total average of the LibQual dimensions corresponds approximately with the minimum level of expectations it also corresponds fairly with the maximum level of user expectations.

Background and Aim: The use of bibliometric methods identify the best researchers in various fields on the one hand, and scientific mapping of specific disciplines on the other hand at the international level has become popular gradually. The aim of the present study was to determine top researchers in the field of parasitology based on centrality and combine indicators. Materials and Methods: The study uses a bibliometric methodology. The initial data of this study, which comprises Iranian Parasitology researchers have been retrieved from Web of Science during 1972-2015. After loading and storage of records, the researchers used scientometric software (UCINet, NetDraw, VOSviewer, and BibExcel) to answer research questions. Results: The results indicated there are 1271 scientific productions conducted by Iranians in the field of Parasitology.Mohebali, Vatandoost, and Oshagi are the most active researchers in Parasotology, respectively. Conclusions: Generally, according to findings from different parts of the current study (number of articles, h-index, and centrality indicators), it can be stated that Mohebali is the most influential parasitology researcher in Iran.

Background: Using a quantitative method named reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS), this research tried to determine the historical roots of information behavior research. RPYS pave the way for determining the significant years and works in information behavior. Methodology: Using scientometric method, the initial data of this study, have been extracted from the Web of Science. Using RPYS software, the revised data were analyzed and visualized in Excel. Finding: The distribution of cited references in information behavior revealed three peaks within 19th century. Moreover, our analysis identified 6 peaks between 1900 to 1969 in the field of information behavior, respectively in 1948, 1954, 1957, 1960, 1965, and 1967 has occurred. Results: Based on the study findings, it seems that information behavior research has been shaped intellectually by fields such as Psychology, quantitative and qualitative methodologies, etc. Additionally, it has been influenced by some theories and theoretical works.

Purpose: Using both ideational and social influences’ indicators, this study tries to identify and analyze the most influential researchers in iMetrics. To do so, the researchers used a combination of H family indexes (h-index, g-index, and contemporary h-index) and co-authorship centralities (degree, betweenness, and closeness) for calculating ideational and social influences, respectively.Methods: The study uses a bibliometric methodology and social network analysis approaches. The initial data of this study, which comprises 5944 records in the field of iMetrics during 1978-2014, have been retrieved from Web of Science. UCINet and BibExcel software have been used to calculate centrality measures and h-index; g-index and contemporary h-index have been measured manually within Excel. Once all measures have been calculated, researchers used SPSS and LISREL statistical software packages.Findings: Findings indicated that there is a significant correlation between social influence indicators and researchers’ performance. Moreover, the results of LISREL uncovered a significant correlation between ideational indicators and social ones.Conclusions: Based on the findings revealed in this study, it seems that using balanced and compound bibliometric indicators has the capability to provide a relatively fair and clear insight on researchers’ influence in a specific field. In this way, it is possible to create individual profiles for all of researchers in that field. So that the result could be used for important decisions such as tenure and promotion committees, granting research projects, and the like.