Investigation of Scientific Productivity and Co-authorship Network of Iranians' Researchers on Physical Education and Sport Science in Web of Science during 2006-2016

The purpose of this study was to investigate of scientific productivity and co-authorship network of Iranians' researchers on physical education and sport science in Web of Science during 2006-2016. The scientometric approach and network analysis Method were used and deals with mapping co-authorship networks. For analysis and visualization of co-authorship networks, Histcite, Nodexl and VOSviewr Softwares were used. The data consists of all scientific productivity of Iranians' researchers in mentioned field which was published in Web of Science. The results show that in this period, there are 604 scientific document related to Iranian researchers in the field, of which 487 papers are in the article formats in 82 journals. The majority of collaborations of the Iranian researchers has been with United States, Britain and Canada. As well as the most productive organizations are related to Islamic Azad universities, medical sciences Tehran and Guilan and The most productive authors were Rahnama, Salavati and Mazaheri Moreover. Arazi from the University of Guilan, Asadi from Payame Noor University, Gaeini from University of Tehran, Mohebbi from University of Guilan and Rahnama from University of Isfahan have had the most cooperation with their counterparts.