Scientific production of Sports Science in Iran: A Scientometric Analysis

BACKGROUND: Physical education and sports science is one of the branches of humanities. The purpose of this study is determining the quantitative and qualitative rate of progress in scientific Production of Iran’s researcher in Web of Science. METHODS: Research Methods is Scientometric survey and Statistical Society Includes 233 Documents From 1993 to 2012 are indexed in ISI. RESULTS: Results showed that the time of this study, Iranian researchers’ published 233 documents in this base during this period of time which has been cited 1106(4.76 times on average). The H- index has also been 17. Iran’s most scientific productions in sports science realm was indexed in 2010 with 57 documents and the least in 2000. CONCLUSIONS: By considering the numbers of citations and the obtained H- index, it can be said that the quality of Iranian’s articles is rather acceptable but in comparison to prestigious universities and large number of professors and university students in this field, the quantity of outputted articles is very low.