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Number of Volumes |
12 |
| Number of Issues | 24 |
| Number of Articles | 309 |
| Article View | 548,661 |
| View Per Article | 1775.6 |
| PDF Download Per Article | 1229.53 |
| Number of Submissions | 998 |
| Accepted Submissions | 305 |
| Acceptance Rate | 31 |
| Accept Date (Days) | 65 |
| Number of Indexing Databases | 17 |
| h.index | 11 |
| Average time efficiency of the judging process | 14 |
About the journal aims and scopes
The Scientometrics Research Journal (Scientific Bi-Quarterly of Shahed University) is an open-access research journal that publishes papers in the related fields of scientometrics. As Shahed University is the scientometrics core and the first university that created the syllabus of the scientometrics master course in Iran, Tehran and founded the course in 2011, it has also published the journal as the scientometrics main journal in Iran since 2015. Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of Iran (MSRT) has approved the journal and furthermore, it has been indexed in the ISC (Islamic World Science Citation Center) as one of the Q1 rank indexed journals.
Furthermore, the Scientometrics Research Journal is covered by the Scopus citation index, and from the Spring-Summer 2021 issue onwards, articles published in this journal are indexed in that citation database.
According to the Scimago database report, the Scientometrics Research Journal has achieved a Q3 ranking based on its Scopus-indexed data from 2021 to 2025.
In addition, according to the Journals Commission Ranking of Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (MSRT) ), the journal was ranked A in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, and achieved International ranking in 2023, 2024.
The journal undertakes rigorous peer-review and refereeing of all manuscripts and publishes high-quality articles in the following fields:
Science, technology and innovation assessment and evaluation, Scientometrics, patentometrics, webometrics, cybermetrics, altmetrics, bibliometrics, informetrics, science mapping and visualization, relations between science and other related factors (such as economic, political, technologic and etc.), research evaluation, assessing and evaluating the planning and policy-making of science, technology and innovation, evaluation of scientific productivity, academic impact and social impact
Scientometrics Research Journal (Scientific Bi-Quarterly of Shahed University) uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process.
This journal is an open-access research journal that publishes papers in the related fields of scientometrics. Access to the full papers as well as publication in the Journal is free, and the journal waives the fees of publishing for authors also charges no further fees. The kind of License permitted of the journal is Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) which means the papers are published freely and authors retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions. Also, the users and readers are permitted to share, copy, redistribute the material in any medium or format. Furthermore, they are permitted to remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially, and these freedoms cannot be revoked as long as they follow the license terms and cite the materials.
In this journal, There is no charge to authors for reviewing and publishing their articles, and articles are published for free.
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Abdolreza Noroozi Chakoli
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Elahe Ebrahimi Dorcheh, Ali Mansouri
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Farshid Danesh, Zahra Nematollahi, Marzieh Nojomi, Lili Banihashemi, Arad HamidSamiee
Pages 69-92
Fatemeh Alinezhad Chamazkoti, Saeedeh Mirhaghjoo
Pages 93-134
Elmira Janavi, Somayyeh Nadi Ravandi
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Ameneh Shenavar, Saeed Rezaei Sharifabadi, Molouksadat Hosseini Beheshti, Akram Fathian Dastgerdi
Pages 165-198
Shahrooz Nemati, afshin hamdipour, Ali Abolhasani Joband
Pages 199-234
Fereshteh Tabarsa, Mohammad Hassanzadeh, Atefeh Sharif, Ali Shayan, Faeze Eskandari
Pages 235-268
Sepehr Noroozi Chakoli, Ehsan Mousavi Khaneghah
Pages 269-290
Mahnam Zamani Kalajahi, Shabnam Refoua
Pages 291-320
Ayoub Mohammadian, Ali Heidari, Mohammad Ali Shahhoseini, Mehdi Abdi
Pages 321-346
Hadi Elhaei, Mansoor Koohi Rostami, Seyed Mohammad Ashrafi
Pages 347-374
Amir Khanlari, Elaheh Shadkam
Pages 375-396
mahnaz kamani, Mohammadreza Abedi, Sima Andalib
Pages 397-428
Nader Razeghi, Hoda Rezaei Roshan
Pages 429-456
Milad Olfat, Faezeh Asadpour, Amir Hossein Shirdel
Pages 457-480
Zeinab Sadat Tabatabaei Lotfi, Mohammad Mahdi Ettefaghi, Ů‹Reza Moazemmi
Pages 481-502
Ehsan Ehteshamnejad, Mehdi Ramezani
Pages 523-548
Gholamreza Kordestani, Hossein Rajabdorri
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Hamid Ebrahimi, Ebrahim Zalzadeh, Ismael Mostafavi
