Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities

Abstract The aim of the research is investigating the motives, amount, and affecting factors of University of Tabriz postgraduate students of scientific social networks. The method of this applied research is a descriptive survey. The gathering data tool was the researcher constructed questionnaire, and the data analyzed by descriptive and inferential tests such as chi-square. The findings showed that 67 percent of the students are familiar with scientific social networks and use them. The primary motivation of the students was being informed about news in science and knowledge, being in contact with other researchers, and tracking the activities of the other researchers. Other findings of the research showed that there is a significant correlation between grade and age with the amount and motivation of the use of scientific social networks. The results also showed that there is a statistically significant correlation between the gender and important educational groups and the amount of use of scientific social networks. The student's familiarity with scientific social networks is not satisfactory, and most of them do not use them, or their use is shallow.

Abstract The aim of this study is to analyze the collaboration network of authors and institutions in papers published in the quarterly journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities from the first to the 27^th issue. Accordingly, the number of publications, authorship patterns, most productive authors and institutions, characteristics of collaboration networks as well as authors’ areas of expertise were studied. To conduct this applied research, scientometric and social network analysis indicators were utilized. Moreover, UCINet software was used for visualization and analysis of scientific collaboration networks. Results of the study revealed that 185 papers written by 272 researchers from 70 institutions have been published in the first 27 issues of the journal. Investigating the collaboration network of researchers showed that they tend to publish individually or collaboratively in small groups. 48.65% of the papers were single-authored and 51.53% weremultiple-authored. Moreover, Shahid Beheshti University, University of Tehran, Tarbiat Modaress University as well as Kharazmi University played the most important and central roles in collaboration network of institutions in the journal. Last but not least, the fields with the highest share of publication in Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities were Educational Sciences, Political Sciences and Management.