نامه علوم اجتماعي: روندها و رويه ها

Trends and Procedures in the Journal of Social Sciences

The systematic act of reviewing scientific periodicals indirectly examines rules of production, diffusion and usage of scientific literature. So, in essence it can demonstrate the process of scientific progression and regression in a specific field. Through the review analysis of published articles in the scientific journals, we can understand trends and procedures of production and diffusion of science and learn about the scientific network active in that specific field. This article illustrates the contributions made to the domain of social sciences and variety of methodologies used; co-authorship, organizational affiliation or dependency, geographical distribution, nationality, and the like. It also represents the nature of cooperation of author/authors who have published their articles in the Journal of Social Science (NAMEH-YE OLUME-E EJTEMAI). The study, in terms of its purposes, is exploratory, descriptive and analytical. Considering the process of research, it is a quantitative one. According to the findings, this study can be located within the applied field of the social research. The number of authors who have produced articles and submitted them to the Journal of Social Sciences amounts to 279. They have thus produced 415 articles in the period encompassing fall of 1968 to spring of 2008. The article frequency is 1 to 16 and 11/2 represents the average of articles per author. Results of this research show the Journal of Social Sciences is an interdisciplinary Journal. The journal is shown to have focused on the field of sociology, quantitative methods. The findings also indicate the organizational affiliation or dependency of authors to be on the faculty of social sciences of University of Tehran.