Structural Analysis of Scientific Productions in the Field of Educational Management in Iran

The present study was formulated with the aim of analyzing the structure of scientific productions in the field of educational management in Iran. The field of this quantitative study is scientometrics. The research population is all the original Persian scientific articles indexed in "Noormags", "Magiran" and Scientific Information Database (SID) from 1998 to 2020. The data are collected using a checklist. The descriptive indicators, the growth rate, the frequency distribution and relative frequency percentage are used to analyze the data by Excel. Also the Pajek software is used to draw co-authored maps, and the Bradford's law of scatter is used to determine the core journals. Some of the findings show that the most prolific writers are Mohammad Reza Behrangi and Hassan Reza Zeineabadi, and the most prolific universities are Kharazmi and Tehran universities, respectively. Nine journals are also identified as core journals, of which the journal of "School Administration" and " New Approaches in Educational Administration" are the most prolific journals. However, an important part of the findings show that the trends in scientific productions in the field of educational management has not experienced a proper growth rate during the years under review, and a kind of disorganization is so evident in the process of scientific productions in the field of educational management in Iran.