Fig. 3.

The authors’ performance clustering mapping and their co-authorships network in publishing Iranian microbiota articles. 63 authors of whom contributed to at least 3 Iranian microbiota articles constructs the largest co-authorship network and are divided into ten clusters displayed in different colors. Besides, there are a total of 150 collaborations between these 63 authors. The node size represents the number of articles published by each author and the thickness of the line between two authors represents the number of their co-authorships