Despite the fact that the issue of governance is as long as human life, it has not been more than three decades since its emergence as an interdisciplinary field of study. In Iran, with a little delay and gradually, the concept of governance was noticed by thinkers of different disciplines. The researcher in this study seeks to identify and analyze the research trend in the field of governance studies in Iran. For this purpose, all Persian scientific articles published in the field of governance until 1402, amounting to 1038 articles, have been analyzed by systematic literature review method. The findings of the research show that the first scientific article on governance in Iran was published in 1380, and since then, the trend of publishing governance articles has always been upward and especially It has increased sharply in the last decade. Also, articles in the field of governance have been published in 307 scientific journals from 23 different disciplines, but the five main disciplines contribute to interdisciplinary studies of governance, respectively. They are: political science (31 percent); management (21 percent); economics (13 percent); social sciences (8 percent); and jurisprudence and law (6 percent). The most frequent keyword in governance researches in Iran is "good governance" which is used in 275 articles (nearly 27% of all governance articles). The findings and results of this research can lead the way in the matter of prudent policy-making of research in the field of governance in the Islamic Republic of Iran.