مجلة بحوث في اللغة العربية المحكمة في ميزان النقد التحليلي والاقتباسي

Referencing and Content Analysis of Biannual Journal of Research in Arabic Language

Scientific research journals are known as mostly used scientific sources and documents and are considered vastly by writers and researchers. Having this assumption in mind, surveying them and their content analysis are of great importance. For this reason, the present study deals with the analysis of the articles of the Biannual Journal of Research in Arabic Language and Literature (Bohouth Fi al-Loagha –al Arabiyya). This periodical is one of the important and valid journals of Arabic literature in Iran. One hundred articles of 191 researchers possessing Postgraduate degrees from 36 universities and institutes have been published during 15 issues so far. This paper aims to survey statistically and analytically the number of authors, their certificates, amount of cooperation among writers, active centers and institutes involving in journal’s process and so on. The followings are the outcomes of the study: 22 articles are written individually whereas 78 of them are written by authors and co-authors and of them 54 writers belong to the same universities and 23 to the various universities. One third of the articles contain contextualization and stylistics issues. Twenty two articles are written by the cooperation of editorial board members which indicates 22/22% mean which is one fifth of all. Totally, 2407 sources have been used as bibliography of the articles and the mean for each paper is 24/31 cited works which is an acceptable amount. Also, 1863 cited works (77/39%) possess more than 14 years life time.