Investigating the relationship between knowledge sharing and science production from the viewpoints of faculty members of Knowledge and Information Science at Tehran's public universities

Considering the importance of knowledge sharing as the most important factor in the science production process, this study investigated the relationship between these two variables from viewpoints of faculty members of Knowledge and Information Science at public universities in Tehran.  This study was an applied and descriptive-correlation study. The statistical population consisted of 48 faculty members of Knowledge and Information Science of Tehran's public universities in 2019. Data gathering tools were two researcher-made questionnaires included: “knowledge sharing” with 23 questions in 5 dimensions and “science production” with 15 questions. Cronbach's alpha method was used to measure the internal consistency reliability of the items that was 0.873 for “Knowledge Sharing Questionnaire”, and 0.854 for “Science Production Questionnaire". SPSS software version 23 was used for data analysis. The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship among “knowledge sharing” and “science production” (p<0.001). Also, there was a strong and significant relationship between "production of science" and dimensions of “research” acceleration, “facilitating the use of knowledge” research barriers reduction”, “clarification of knowledge gained” and “research development” (p<0.001). Linear regression analysis also showed the effect of knowledge sharing on the science production. The results of this study showed that the success of the science production process is in applying knowledge sharing, and the development of scientific productions requires the use of tools, methods, suitable planning and scientific interactions.