An analysis of Quantity and Quality of urban planning Journals in the scientific journals of Iran from 2008 to 2011

Nowadays, quality and quantity of journals is one of the main aspects of development of any country. Thus, the authors are aiming to present the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of 13 scientific journals related to urban & regional planning through content analysis of them. Content analysis is one of the major and practical methods that make accurate analysis of content data, possible for researchers in order to investigate these investments. This method is one of the most practical quantitative methods in social science. So that analyzing the series of documents such as articles and books, could be mentioned as the most applications of this method.
This article is one of the attributive researches. Also analytical – descriptive methods and quantitative-qualitative approaches is used. Considered statistical society contains 954 published articles of 13 journal in Geography, urban and Regional planning- Journal of urban and regional studies, Journal of human geography research, Geography research, Geography and development Iranian journal, Geography, Geography and environmental planning, Journal of geography and regional development research, Soffeh, Geographic space, Urban management and …- from 2008 -2011.
The results show that more than half of the articles published in the last three years had a period of more than six months from the stage of acceptance to print. Peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals. long stretch of time - in addition to a research infrastructure for research misconduct ; itself is a factor contributing to the decline in the value of documents and papers.