The relationship between social influence with productivity and performance in co-authorship social network of Quran and Hadith studies

• Published in: Kitābdārī va iṭṭilā'rasānī Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 50 - 74
• Main Authors: Afshin Mousavi Chalak, Faramarz Sohieli, Ali Akbar Khasseh
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Persian
• Published: Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi 01-09-2017
• Subjects: centrality; quran and hadith; research performance; research productivity; social influence
• ISSN: 1680-9637; 2676-5977

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between social influence with productivity and performance of researchers in Quran and Hadith Studies. Methodology: This research was conducted using scientometrics’ prevalent techniques, such as co-authorship and network analysis. Quran and Hadith Studies indexed in Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) during 2006-2015 comprised the population of study. The researchers have used a combination of BibExcel, UCINet, and NetDraw for matrix generation and mapping of Quran and Hadith Studies. Findings: Based on the data analysis, the average number of authors per article was 1.6 in the field of Quran and Hadith. Moreover, the average citation per article was 0.1, which indicated that researchers in this area did not refer much to each others’ articles. Findings also showed that there was a significant relationship between social influence and productivity, as well as social influence and performance. In addition, the results indicated that the social network of researchers in the field of Quran and Hadith was loose and low-density. Conclusion: The results of this study indicated that the Quran and Hadith scholars had a low level of collaboration and rarely refered to the works of their colleagues. The results of regression test showed that 10% of variance related to performance was determined by social influence (R2= 0.109) and 22% of variance related to productivity was determined by social influence (R2= 0.218). So researchers in this field should try to form research teams and have a co-authorship strategy.