a 15-year research profile of the bulletin of the iranian mathematical society (2008-2022): a scientometric approach

Scientometrics is a quantitative approach to evaluate the research performance of scientific entities such as journals. this study aimed to conduct a scientometric analysis and visualization of the bulletin of the iranian mathematical society (the bulletin) from its being indexed in scopus in 2008 to 2022 (a 15-year time span). required data of 1,553 published papers was extracted from scopus and underwent a scientometric analysis with applying excel microsoft office for summarizing data and vosviewer bibliometric package for visualizing co-authored countries and clustering keywords. the publication trend was increasing steadily in the studied years (r2=.984). the majority of papers (n=1,524, about 98.1%) were original research. among the collaborating authors (n= 159), the first rank commonly belonged to mahdavi-amiri, n. from iran, shy, w. and wang, j.r., both from china (each with publishing 8 papers). out of 159 affiliations, the first to third ranks belonged to iranian affiliations: institute for studies in theoretical physics and mathematics (with 50 papers), iranian research institute for fundamental sciences (with 47 papers) and university of tabriz (with 42 papers), respectively. among contributing countries, iran ranked first with 684 papers (about 44.04% of all papers), followed by china (with 391 papers) and india (with 86 papers). the citation trend was increasing these years (r2=.996). out of 802 unique keywords with 5,022 occurrences, the main clustering keywords were “fixed points”, “analytic functions”, “frames”, “derivation”, “banach algebra”, “variational methods” and “prime graph”. this study is the first scientometric study of the bulletin as a leading iranian journal and its results are beneficial to the editorial team for better decision making and helpful for the audience and authors.