چکیده:
The development of purposeful and principled programs meant to improve the scientific level of countries requires the assessment and measurement of research, and oil industry research is no exception. Therefore, examining the quantitative and qualitative growth trend of products in petroleum engineering can be a guideline for decision-makers and politicians to develop and advance this field. This research is a scientometric study conducted using the co-citation analysis technique. The statistical population of the present study includes all articles in the field of petroleum engineering indexed in the Web of Science database from January 1, 1985, to December 31, 2019. All full record and cited references with tagged format were marked as plain text files to performing analysis. Ravar PreMap, UCINET and NetDraw software were used to identify countries and researchers in question and do a co-citation study. The annual growth trend of articles in petroleum engineering has had an upward trend between 1985 and 2019. Finally, by examining the research in this area, it was found that based on centrality indices, "BAHADORI, ALIREZA" from New South Wales Oil and Gas Company of Australia and "MOHAMMADI, AMIR H." from the University of KwaZulu-Natal
in South Africa have played a more important role in scientific production in the field of petroleum engineering according to rank and intermediate centrality indices. Co-citation analysis of articles can show the most important articles and their relationships. Such analyses can be useful for large-scale policymaking or identifying existing gaps and addressing them.
خلاصه ماشینی:
" from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa have played a more important role in scientific production in the field of petroleum engineering according to rank and intermediate centrality indices.
In addition, Bhakta and Bhui (2018) reviewed the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies research with a scientometric approach during the 2017-2018 period and demonstrated that the highest number of scientific publications was related to 2017 and that the International Journal of Applied Engineering Research was the most favorable journal among 299 journals with Kumar as the most influential author.
On the other hand, similar to Bhakta and Bhui (2020), Das and Ghosh (2020) scientifically analyzed the productivity of research at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies in a different period (2004-2018) and observed that the mentioned university has had the highest level of collaboration with the United States, followed by South Korea and UAE with 5 l publications and that the faculty members tend to publish articles in various popular journals and to collaborate effectively with foreign universities.
Table 4 Top Ten Researchers in Petroleum Engineering in Wos Database from 1985 to 2019 {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} Analysis of articles in the field of petroleum engineering based on the number of citations (impact) indicates that "KEASLING, JAY D.
As can be seen in Figure 2, "BAHADORI, ALIREZA", "ZENDEHBOUDI, SOHRAB", and "MOHAMMADI, AMIR H" rank first, second and third among top researchers in the field of petroleum engineering according to the centrality index, respectively.