Evaluation of Scientific Outputs of University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences in Scopus Citation Database Among Type II Universities

Objective: Nowadays, organizations and institutions evaluate their performance to ensure that they are taking the right steps towards their goals and missions. Accordingly, universities and research institutes, analyze their scientific outputs and productions, to assess their success in achieving they evaluate their goals. The aim of this study was to investigate the scientific outputs, collaborations of the authors of the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences in the Scopus database since the beginning of the university's activity in the Scopus database.in comparison with 5 universities. Methods: This research, using scientometric techniques, on June 5, 2021, has studied and compared the scientific products of the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences with 5 universities in the Scopus database. This information was extracted from the Scopus database without any restrictions and then converted into scalable format in Sci² Tool software using Scop2wos. The output of Sci² Tool software was then plotted using VOSviewer software. Results: In this search, 3538 papers related to the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences and all information related to 5 universities of Golestan, Qazvin, Semnan, Hamedan, Zanjan were identified, But because the main focus is the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, first the information of this university was presented. In this search, the degree related to this university was identified, the average number of authors of articles was 9, and the highest scientific collaborations was with the United States, United Kingdom and Sweden. Researchers at the university have also written significant contributions to each other. According to the national ranking, this university is ranked 23rd and ahead of Hamedan and Golestan universities. And in terms of the number of published documents, it is in the second place after Hamadan University. The level of international cooperation of this university is more than other compared universities.  Conclusion: According to the reviews, the university's scientific policy has been successful in increasing the production of science over the years and the results suggest that more efforts should be put into encouraging authors in co-authorship in order to establish scientific relationships with other universities.