DEVELOPING WORLD ORGANIZATIONAL ROADMAPS THROUGH SCIENTOMETRIC STUDIES BASED ON EXPERT ACTIVITIES AND EXPERTISE

This is an analytical-descriptive research study that tries to improve world researchers, organization experts, and managements, as well as policy makers’ understandings regarding modeling a sample organization and its expert activities map within the different domains of science. The study offers suggestions to Non-profit Global Organizations (NGOs) such as the Geological Society of America (GSA) and other world organizations and unions to review and revise their national-global activities roadmaps based on their expertise and activities. In fact, scientometric studies are often used to investigate scholarly publication trends within a specific topic. They can also be applied to studying the organization's capabilities and activities, which can be helpful to all organizations around the world for developing their own local to international thinking model and roadmap, as a medium for showing their current activities at a glance that are being carried out by their researchers and experts. In order to understand the organization's activities, I have developed a conceptual organizational scientometrics activity network model within VOS viewer as a professional scientometrics software. It is based on a scientometrics analysis of two testified international case studies including the activities of the World Geological Survey Organizations (WGSOs) and the International Geoscience Education Organisation (IGEO). I will not discuss other detailed descriptive parts of the proposed model and case studies. The current study suggests that the application of such methodology can help decision-makers to understand their organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) based on the capabilities of their experts or their organizational activities. In addition, it will help science and technology policy-makers of an organization to model and classify their experts to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG) by preparing their organizational roadmaps based on reviewing the activities conducted by their own experts in different dimensions of their performed activities on the local to an international scale.