Purpose: Public libraries have historically played a role in supporting economic development, ent... more Purpose: Public libraries have historically played a role in supporting economic development, entrepreneurship, small businesses, and providing commercial information to various stakeholders. This study aims to identify the types of services, programs and economic activities that public libraries offer in this domain, based on a review of the relevant literature. Method: The present research is a systematic literature review, and the systematic study framework of Kitchenham and Charters was used to carry out it. By identifying the databases and query terms, searches were conducted and finally, by refining the sources and applying the entry and exit criteria to the research, 37 sources in English and 6 sources in Farsi were entered into the systematic review. The research tool was a checklist type. The information obtained by summarizing the contents is presented in the form of a table. Findings: The activities of public libraries for economic development were grouped into four components: information, education, social, and space and equipment. The information component consists of two dimensions: resources and databases, and reference services. The resources and databases dimension involves assessing resource needs, providing economic information services, developing economic collections, collecting job resources, resume writing and job interview skills, marketing economic collections, creating job databases, providing access to commercial law databases, and creating and maintaining economic websites. The reference services dimension offers services such as general and specialized reference and consultation, business and research reference, document delivery, remote business question answering, job search assistance, subject guides and search assistance. The education component includes developing financial literacy and entrepreneurship skills, specific skills for jobs and businesses, digital and technology literacy, skills for students and low-educated adults, business information literacy training, economic and business consultations, and coach training. The social component includes services such as community socioeconomic development, creating social partnerships, networking, holding business events, organizational cooperation, and meetings with consultants. The space and equipment component includes creating innovation buildings and spaces, preparing physical spaces, creating reference spaces, independent commercial libraries, and developing equipment. Originality/value: This review examines the diverse services, programs, and activities that public libraries offer to support community economic development. The findings reveal that public libraries are developing a new function, called economic function, that encompasses various roles and dimensions, such as information, education, social issues, and space and equipment development. To address the economic challenges of the society, public libraries design and deliver various programs and services for businesses, business owners, entrepreneurs and even general users. This study enhances the existing knowledge about the economic impact of public libraries and proposes directions for future public library action.
Research on Information Science and Public Libraries, 2023
Purpose: Public libraries have historically played a role in supporting economic development, ent... more Purpose: Public libraries have historically played a role in supporting economic development, entrepreneurship, small businesses, and providing commercial information to various stakeholders. This study aims to identify the types of services, programs and economic activities that public libraries offer in this domain, based on a review of the relevant literature. Method: The present research is a systematic literature review, and the systematic study framework of Kitchenham and Charters was used to carry out it. By identifying the databases and query terms, searches were conducted and finally, by refining the sources and applying the entry and exit criteria to the research, 37 sources in English and 6 sources in Farsi were entered into the systematic review. The research tool was a checklist type. The information obtained by summarizing the contents is presented in the form of a table. Findings: The activities of public libraries for economic development were grouped into four components: information, education, social, and space and equipment. The information component consists of two dimensions: resources and databases, and reference services. The resources and databases dimension involves assessing resource needs, providing economic information services, developing economic collections, collecting job resources, resume writing and job interview skills, marketing economic collections, creating job databases, providing access to commercial law databases, and creating and maintaining economic websites. The reference services dimension offers services such as general and specialized reference and consultation, business and research reference, document delivery, remote business question answering, job search assistance, subject guides and search assistance. The education component includes developing financial literacy and entrepreneurship skills, specific skills for jobs and businesses, digital and technology literacy, skills for students and low-educated adults, business information literacy training, economic and business consultations, and coach training. The social component includes services such as community socioeconomic development, creating social partnerships, networking, holding business events, organizational cooperation, and meetings with consultants. The space and equipment component includes creating innovation buildings and spaces, preparing physical spaces, creating reference spaces, independent commercial libraries, and developing equipment. Originality/value: This review examines the diverse services, programs, and activities that public libraries offer to support community economic development. The findings reveal that public libraries are developing a new function, called economic function, that encompasses various roles and dimensions, such as information, education, social issues, and space and equipment development. To address the economic challenges of the society, public libraries design and deliver various programs and services for businesses, business owners, entrepreneurs and even general users. This study enhances the existing knowledge about the economic impact of public libraries and proposes directions for future public library action.
International Journal of Information Science and Management (IJISM), 2023
A significant amount of scientific texts is produced in Persian and available in scientific infor... more A significant amount of scientific texts is produced in Persian and available in scientific information databases through the Web. In this paper, FarsAcademic, a test collection of Persian scientific texts has been built for implementation of information retrieval models among academic search comprising 102238 documents and 61 topics. While constructing FarsAcademic, we have tried to resolve the problems specific to information retrieval (IR) and natural language processing (NLP) in Persian scientific texts. Domain experts were employed to create queries within their research area and user relevance and topical relevance were applied to improve the precision of relevance judgment of documents. Further, to improve retrieval performance in Persian scientific texts, automated query expansion was applied using one of the relevant feedback techniques named as Local Context Analysis algorithm. The result showed that query expansion techniques outperformed other information retrieval models in the Persian scientific texts retrieval task. Eventually, FarsAcademic is the only one that has been provided free of charge for Iranian information retrieval scholars for them to implement and evaluate different information retrieval models and algorithms on Persian scientific text and academic search.
Research on Information Science & Public Libraries
The current research was conducted with the aim of identifying the types of services, opportuniti... more The current research was conducted with the aim of identifying the types of services, opportunities, capacities and challenges of public libraries in providing health information from the texts of this field. Method: The research method is a systematic literature review, and the systematic study framework of Kitchenham and Charters was used to carry out it. By identifying the databases and query terms, searches were conducted and finally, by refining the sources and applying the entry and exit criteria to the research, 37 sources in English and 3 sources in Farsi were entered into the systematic review. The research tool was a checklist type. The information obtained by summarizing the contents is presented in the form of a table. Findings: The results show that the types of services include six general categories of health information, social determinants of health, health literacy education, direct provision of health services, promotion of physical mobility, and alternative and complementary care services. Capacities were categorized into four general categories: human resources, resources, library functions, and fundamental values of libraries. The opportunities included four general categories: using the capacity of other organizations, strengthening human resources, providing a place to provide health services, and increasing community resilience in crises. Finally, the challenges included: nature of the issue, libraries policy, budget, resources, equipment and technology, space, services, inter-organizational cooperation, specialized human resources, communication with clients, and client problems. Originality/value: Considering the status of providing health information services in Iran's public libraries' service portfolio, awareness of the types of services, capacities, opportunities, and challenges of public libraries in the world in providing health information to citizens is useful for designing or providing health information services in Iranian libraries.
This catalogue documents Buser’s installations created from architectural photographs taken durin... more This catalogue documents Buser’s installations created from architectural photographs taken during a six-month residency in Montreal in 1997, and exhibited at the Bern Kunsthalle and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in 1998-1999. Kurzmeyer describes the artist’s process, characterized by decontextualization strategies and the production of fictive urban landscapes. Ireland focuses on the artist’s rejection of modernist idealization in architecture and on the quality of presence and fragility in her approach, allowing her to reveal the buildings’ social and political realities. Additional photographic installations on building facades and in the streets of Kracow, Montreal, Mexico City, Binningen and Basel are illustrated without commentary. Kurzmeyer’s text in English and German; Ireland’s text in English and French. List of works. Biographical notes. Selected bibliography l p.
Background: The performance and collaboration of universities could be measured through scientifi... more Background: The performance and collaboration of universities could be measured through scientific publications and scientometrics indicators. The purpose is to describe state of scientific publications at Kharazmi University and determine the important players of the Co-authorship networks at this University in three levels: Researchers, organizations and countries-in the web of science from 1994 to 2020. Method: This is a scientometrics study. Kharazmi University's' 4734 records from Web of Science both text and Excel format had been extracted. Data visualization was performed using VOSviewer and the GunnMap. Finding: Results showed that Kharazmi University publications have received an average of 10.68 citations with H-index of 75. The five first subject areas are engineering, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and computer science. For scientific coauthorship among Iranian organizations, Islamic Azad, Tehran, Tarbiat Modares Universities; among foreign organizations, Putra University, Malaysia, California and Montreal; Among countries, United States, Canada and the United Kingdom are ranked first to third. Vatanpour, Majlesara Jahromi, and Divsalar are the top three researcher. Vatanpour is most effective researcher quantitatively and qualitatively. Fields of chemistry (organic and polymer / decomposition and application), biology, industrial engineering and engineering make main authors' of co-authorship network. Main players in the organization network are Iranian organizations, and more in Tehran. Although Kharazmi University cooperation with other countries is not acceptable, but the drawing of the co-authorship network of countries shows that cooperation is developing at the international level. Also, scientific co-authorship with Iranian organizations, especially foreign organizations, has increased the citation of Kharazmi University publication. Conclusion: Kharazmi University publications had been growing significantly on the web of science database in recent years in term of quantity and quality. More scientific teamwork is suggested for Kharazmi University at the international level. Also, publication of topmost thesis and dissertations on the Web of Science should be considered.
Background: Highly cited papers are considered publications with a great impact on a scientific c... more Background: Highly cited papers are considered publications with a great impact on a scientific community and have been deeply investigated in different fields. Aim: This study aimed at analyzing and visualizing the top 1000 highly cited papers on COVID-19. Methods: As a bibliometric study, this study was conducted by retrieving 1000 highly-cited papers on COVID-19 published during 2019-2021 from Scopus. The search strategy was to obtain 35 related keywords/terms on the COVID-19 as the main term from MeSH and searching them in the fields of paper titles, abstracts, and keywords. Bibliometric techniques such as co-citation analysis, co-authorship analysis and word co-occurrence analysis were used for the study. Data visualization was done by applying the VOSviewer software package and GunnMap. Results: China, the United States of America (USA), and the United Kingdom (UK) with publishing 418, 353, and 149, mostly cited papers were ranked first-to-third, respectively. The top contribu...
Introduction: Systematic reviews, which are of prime importance in medical research, provide esse... more Introduction: Systematic reviews, which are of prime importance in medical research, provide essential information for decision making through integration of evidence-based information.The aim of the present study was to investigate the status of systematic reviews, citation rate and the factors influencing this rate in medical research in Iran. Methods:The present study was an applied research in which scientometric and statistical tests were used. The status of 382 medical systematic reviews of Iran in the Web of Science database were scrutinized and the factors influencing on citations of these articles were examined. Results: The results of the study showed that about 60% of articles were published from 2013 to 2015. More than 15% of the review articles were publishe under the subject category of Internal, General Medicine. The subject category of Gastroenterology and Hepatology with the average of 17/96 citation from each article was in the first rank. The highest number of citation for an article was 274. There were seven factors influencing citation : the length of the article, the length of the title, the length of the abstract, the number of keywords, the number of authors, the number of references, and the international collaboration. The findings revealed a significant correlation between the collaborating countries, the number of references and the number of citations. However, the relationship between other effective factors was not significant. Conclusion:The results of this study showed that the highest number of citations is taken from international articles. Therefore, writing articles with international authors is one of the best ways to increase the citation and visibility of the articles.
Iranian Journal of Information Processing & Management, 2016
The extension of the Internet and World Wide Web has created new opportunities as well as new cha... more The extension of the Internet and World Wide Web has created new opportunities as well as new challenges for institutions and individuals who are either receiving or delivering education. Electronic learning is one of the most important breakthroughs in education in which the website is the first access point that users receive educational services provided. Therefore, website quality should be considered as an important factor resulted in the success of virtual learning and studied in a more detailed manner from the e-learners’ perspective. This paper aims to classify the quality aspects of Tehran virtual university website (webqual 4.0) according to the Kano model of customer satisfaction and determine the asymmetric impact of the webqual 4.0 dimensions’ performance on overall user satisfaction in order to prioritize those dimensions in resource allocation, as well as sensitize the managers of the mentioned website. This is a descriptive survey and applied study, and also a cross-...
National Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology
Background: The current study was conducted to investigate the research barriers and challenges f... more Background: The current study was conducted to investigate the research barriers and challenges faced by graduate students in Hamadan University of Medical Sciences. Aims and Objectives: This study is among the applied studies in terms of objective and descriptive survey in terms of method of study. Materials and Methods: Population of the study included 72 graduate students, selected using stratified sampling method among 227 people. The tool of the study included a researcher-developed questionnaire, which contained seven parts including demographic characteristics, personal barriers, organizational barriers, job factors, structural and communicative factors, and normative and ethical factors, and three open questions. The questions related to barriers and the questions related to factors were developed based on the 5-point Likert scale. Results: One of the most important structural and communicative factors influencing the scientific production of graduate students is solving the academic errors of student by professor, stimulating and encouraging the student by professor, stimulating the thought or brainstorming of the student by professor, and student and professor discussion, and exchange of views on the subject. Findings of multiple regressions revealed that job and organizational factors predict 22% scientific productions. Structural and communicative factors and normative and ethical factors predict 31% and 14% of variations invariance, respectively. Conclusion: The priorities influencing the scientific production of graduate students of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences included job and organizational factors, normative and ethical factors, and structural and communicative factors.
Introduction: In the recent decades, emerging and novel issues have been proposed in the field of... more Introduction: In the recent decades, emerging and novel issues have been proposed in the field of reproductive biology leading to increased scientific outputs by scholars. Accordingly, this study sought to identify the scientific trend, the key contributors in this regard, and trend of subjects of research in the field of reproductive biology in Iran. Methods: In this applied and descriptive study, the available literature on embryology and reproductive biology was examined using scientometrics and network analysis methods. The study population consisted of all articles published by Iranian researchers in the field of reproductive biology and indexed in ISI database between 1973 and 2014. Results: The results showed that Iranian scientific output on reproductive biology began with an article in 1973, reaching the total number of 2805 published articles in 2014. Tehran University of Medical Sciences, with 457 publications, is the most important contributor. American and British autho...
Vygotsky’s Action Theory clarifies that humans’ behaviors are mostly derived by socio-cultural ba... more Vygotsky’s Action Theory clarifies that humans’ behaviors are mostly derived by socio-cultural backgrounds. It heavily relies on the fact that information interaction can be affected by afterbirth habits and historical knowledge. Health scholars' web-based information practice is hugely important since they learn while they teach and information practice is a such interaction. Drawing on viewpoint of Vygotsky’s Action theory we studied health scholars’ information practice and investigated the related factors using a qualitative grounded-based theory approach. On a voluntary basis 23 faculty members from School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran were selected and on two stages were asked about their information practice experiences during December 2015 to March 2016 and November to December 2017. Interviews were placed at their university offices, then transcribed, coded and carefully analyzed. We derived 3 themes of ...
PurposeAs a pioneering and influential journal in the field of library and information science (L... more PurposeAs a pioneering and influential journal in the field of library and information science (LIS), the Journal of Documentation (JDoc) needs to be evaluated from a bibliometric perspective. This study aimed at conducting a bibliometric overview and visualization of the scientific output of JDoc from its inception in 1945–2018.Design/methodology/approachIn this bibliometric study, 2056 papers published in JDoc were analyzed. All needed data were extracted from Scopus in 9 July 2019 in CSV format. Bibliometric analyses were done in Microsoft Excel. Visualization was done by Vosviewer software and applying techniques such as co-citation, co-authorship and co-occurrence. As a limited altmetric study, JDoc highly mentioned papers and the rate of their presence in social media were extracted from Altmetric LLP, too.FindingsThere was an increasing trend in published papers and received citations. Highly cited and most influential authors in JDoc are well-known in the field. However, the...
Iranian Journal of Information processing and Management, 2015
The extension of the Internet and World Wide Web has created new opportunities as well as new cha... more The extension of the Internet and World Wide Web has created new opportunities as well as new challenges for institutions and individuals who are either receiving or delivering education. Electronic learning is one of the most important breakthroughs in education in which the website is the first access point that users receive educational services provided. Therefore, website quality should be considered as an important factor resulted in the success of virtual learning and studied in a more detailed manner from the e-learners’ perspective. This paper aims to classify the quality aspects of the Tehran virtual university website (webqual 4.0) according to the Kano model of customer satisfaction and determine the asymmetric impact of the webqual 4.0 dimensions’ performance on overall user satisfaction in order to prioritize those dimensions in resource allocation, as well as sensitize the managers of the mentioned website. This is a descriptive-survey and applied study, and also a cross-sectional one. The study population included Tehran University students studying in virtual courses and the data collection tool was the questionnaire of webqual 4.0, as well as, a researcher-made questionnaire to measure end-user satisfaction. Multiple regression analysis was used to investigate the impact of performance asymmetry. The result showed that usability dimension was the high-performance excitement factor, information quality dimension was a high-performing basic factor, and service interaction dimension had low performance scores and was a basic factor. And finally, a short-term plan to improve service interaction dimension to reduce user discontent and a long-term plan to better both information quality and usability dimensions to increase user satisfaction was proposed.
Purpose: Public libraries have historically played a role in supporting economic development, ent... more Purpose: Public libraries have historically played a role in supporting economic development, entrepreneurship, small businesses, and providing commercial information to various stakeholders. This study aims to identify the types of services, programs and economic activities that public libraries offer in this domain, based on a review of the relevant literature. Method: The present research is a systematic literature review, and the systematic study framework of Kitchenham and Charters was used to carry out it. By identifying the databases and query terms, searches were conducted and finally, by refining the sources and applying the entry and exit criteria to the research, 37 sources in English and 6 sources in Farsi were entered into the systematic review. The research tool was a checklist type. The information obtained by summarizing the contents is presented in the form of a table. Findings: The activities of public libraries for economic development were grouped into four components: information, education, social, and space and equipment. The information component consists of two dimensions: resources and databases, and reference services. The resources and databases dimension involves assessing resource needs, providing economic information services, developing economic collections, collecting job resources, resume writing and job interview skills, marketing economic collections, creating job databases, providing access to commercial law databases, and creating and maintaining economic websites. The reference services dimension offers services such as general and specialized reference and consultation, business and research reference, document delivery, remote business question answering, job search assistance, subject guides and search assistance. The education component includes developing financial literacy and entrepreneurship skills, specific skills for jobs and businesses, digital and technology literacy, skills for students and low-educated adults, business information literacy training, economic and business consultations, and coach training. The social component includes services such as community socioeconomic development, creating social partnerships, networking, holding business events, organizational cooperation, and meetings with consultants. The space and equipment component includes creating innovation buildings and spaces, preparing physical spaces, creating reference spaces, independent commercial libraries, and developing equipment. Originality/value: This review examines the diverse services, programs, and activities that public libraries offer to support community economic development. The findings reveal that public libraries are developing a new function, called economic function, that encompasses various roles and dimensions, such as information, education, social issues, and space and equipment development. To address the economic challenges of the society, public libraries design and deliver various programs and services for businesses, business owners, entrepreneurs and even general users. This study enhances the existing knowledge about the economic impact of public libraries and proposes directions for future public library action.
Research on Information Science and Public Libraries, 2023
Purpose: Public libraries have historically played a role in supporting economic development, ent... more Purpose: Public libraries have historically played a role in supporting economic development, entrepreneurship, small businesses, and providing commercial information to various stakeholders. This study aims to identify the types of services, programs and economic activities that public libraries offer in this domain, based on a review of the relevant literature. Method: The present research is a systematic literature review, and the systematic study framework of Kitchenham and Charters was used to carry out it. By identifying the databases and query terms, searches were conducted and finally, by refining the sources and applying the entry and exit criteria to the research, 37 sources in English and 6 sources in Farsi were entered into the systematic review. The research tool was a checklist type. The information obtained by summarizing the contents is presented in the form of a table. Findings: The activities of public libraries for economic development were grouped into four components: information, education, social, and space and equipment. The information component consists of two dimensions: resources and databases, and reference services. The resources and databases dimension involves assessing resource needs, providing economic information services, developing economic collections, collecting job resources, resume writing and job interview skills, marketing economic collections, creating job databases, providing access to commercial law databases, and creating and maintaining economic websites. The reference services dimension offers services such as general and specialized reference and consultation, business and research reference, document delivery, remote business question answering, job search assistance, subject guides and search assistance. The education component includes developing financial literacy and entrepreneurship skills, specific skills for jobs and businesses, digital and technology literacy, skills for students and low-educated adults, business information literacy training, economic and business consultations, and coach training. The social component includes services such as community socioeconomic development, creating social partnerships, networking, holding business events, organizational cooperation, and meetings with consultants. The space and equipment component includes creating innovation buildings and spaces, preparing physical spaces, creating reference spaces, independent commercial libraries, and developing equipment. Originality/value: This review examines the diverse services, programs, and activities that public libraries offer to support community economic development. The findings reveal that public libraries are developing a new function, called economic function, that encompasses various roles and dimensions, such as information, education, social issues, and space and equipment development. To address the economic challenges of the society, public libraries design and deliver various programs and services for businesses, business owners, entrepreneurs and even general users. This study enhances the existing knowledge about the economic impact of public libraries and proposes directions for future public library action.
International Journal of Information Science and Management (IJISM), 2023
A significant amount of scientific texts is produced in Persian and available in scientific infor... more A significant amount of scientific texts is produced in Persian and available in scientific information databases through the Web. In this paper, FarsAcademic, a test collection of Persian scientific texts has been built for implementation of information retrieval models among academic search comprising 102238 documents and 61 topics. While constructing FarsAcademic, we have tried to resolve the problems specific to information retrieval (IR) and natural language processing (NLP) in Persian scientific texts. Domain experts were employed to create queries within their research area and user relevance and topical relevance were applied to improve the precision of relevance judgment of documents. Further, to improve retrieval performance in Persian scientific texts, automated query expansion was applied using one of the relevant feedback techniques named as Local Context Analysis algorithm. The result showed that query expansion techniques outperformed other information retrieval models in the Persian scientific texts retrieval task. Eventually, FarsAcademic is the only one that has been provided free of charge for Iranian information retrieval scholars for them to implement and evaluate different information retrieval models and algorithms on Persian scientific text and academic search.
Research on Information Science & Public Libraries
The current research was conducted with the aim of identifying the types of services, opportuniti... more The current research was conducted with the aim of identifying the types of services, opportunities, capacities and challenges of public libraries in providing health information from the texts of this field. Method: The research method is a systematic literature review, and the systematic study framework of Kitchenham and Charters was used to carry out it. By identifying the databases and query terms, searches were conducted and finally, by refining the sources and applying the entry and exit criteria to the research, 37 sources in English and 3 sources in Farsi were entered into the systematic review. The research tool was a checklist type. The information obtained by summarizing the contents is presented in the form of a table. Findings: The results show that the types of services include six general categories of health information, social determinants of health, health literacy education, direct provision of health services, promotion of physical mobility, and alternative and complementary care services. Capacities were categorized into four general categories: human resources, resources, library functions, and fundamental values of libraries. The opportunities included four general categories: using the capacity of other organizations, strengthening human resources, providing a place to provide health services, and increasing community resilience in crises. Finally, the challenges included: nature of the issue, libraries policy, budget, resources, equipment and technology, space, services, inter-organizational cooperation, specialized human resources, communication with clients, and client problems. Originality/value: Considering the status of providing health information services in Iran's public libraries' service portfolio, awareness of the types of services, capacities, opportunities, and challenges of public libraries in the world in providing health information to citizens is useful for designing or providing health information services in Iranian libraries.
This catalogue documents Buser’s installations created from architectural photographs taken durin... more This catalogue documents Buser’s installations created from architectural photographs taken during a six-month residency in Montreal in 1997, and exhibited at the Bern Kunsthalle and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in 1998-1999. Kurzmeyer describes the artist’s process, characterized by decontextualization strategies and the production of fictive urban landscapes. Ireland focuses on the artist’s rejection of modernist idealization in architecture and on the quality of presence and fragility in her approach, allowing her to reveal the buildings’ social and political realities. Additional photographic installations on building facades and in the streets of Kracow, Montreal, Mexico City, Binningen and Basel are illustrated without commentary. Kurzmeyer’s text in English and German; Ireland’s text in English and French. List of works. Biographical notes. Selected bibliography l p.
Background: The performance and collaboration of universities could be measured through scientifi... more Background: The performance and collaboration of universities could be measured through scientific publications and scientometrics indicators. The purpose is to describe state of scientific publications at Kharazmi University and determine the important players of the Co-authorship networks at this University in three levels: Researchers, organizations and countries-in the web of science from 1994 to 2020. Method: This is a scientometrics study. Kharazmi University's' 4734 records from Web of Science both text and Excel format had been extracted. Data visualization was performed using VOSviewer and the GunnMap. Finding: Results showed that Kharazmi University publications have received an average of 10.68 citations with H-index of 75. The five first subject areas are engineering, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and computer science. For scientific coauthorship among Iranian organizations, Islamic Azad, Tehran, Tarbiat Modares Universities; among foreign organizations, Putra University, Malaysia, California and Montreal; Among countries, United States, Canada and the United Kingdom are ranked first to third. Vatanpour, Majlesara Jahromi, and Divsalar are the top three researcher. Vatanpour is most effective researcher quantitatively and qualitatively. Fields of chemistry (organic and polymer / decomposition and application), biology, industrial engineering and engineering make main authors' of co-authorship network. Main players in the organization network are Iranian organizations, and more in Tehran. Although Kharazmi University cooperation with other countries is not acceptable, but the drawing of the co-authorship network of countries shows that cooperation is developing at the international level. Also, scientific co-authorship with Iranian organizations, especially foreign organizations, has increased the citation of Kharazmi University publication. Conclusion: Kharazmi University publications had been growing significantly on the web of science database in recent years in term of quantity and quality. More scientific teamwork is suggested for Kharazmi University at the international level. Also, publication of topmost thesis and dissertations on the Web of Science should be considered.
Background: Highly cited papers are considered publications with a great impact on a scientific c... more Background: Highly cited papers are considered publications with a great impact on a scientific community and have been deeply investigated in different fields. Aim: This study aimed at analyzing and visualizing the top 1000 highly cited papers on COVID-19. Methods: As a bibliometric study, this study was conducted by retrieving 1000 highly-cited papers on COVID-19 published during 2019-2021 from Scopus. The search strategy was to obtain 35 related keywords/terms on the COVID-19 as the main term from MeSH and searching them in the fields of paper titles, abstracts, and keywords. Bibliometric techniques such as co-citation analysis, co-authorship analysis and word co-occurrence analysis were used for the study. Data visualization was done by applying the VOSviewer software package and GunnMap. Results: China, the United States of America (USA), and the United Kingdom (UK) with publishing 418, 353, and 149, mostly cited papers were ranked first-to-third, respectively. The top contribu...
Introduction: Systematic reviews, which are of prime importance in medical research, provide esse... more Introduction: Systematic reviews, which are of prime importance in medical research, provide essential information for decision making through integration of evidence-based information.The aim of the present study was to investigate the status of systematic reviews, citation rate and the factors influencing this rate in medical research in Iran. Methods:The present study was an applied research in which scientometric and statistical tests were used. The status of 382 medical systematic reviews of Iran in the Web of Science database were scrutinized and the factors influencing on citations of these articles were examined. Results: The results of the study showed that about 60% of articles were published from 2013 to 2015. More than 15% of the review articles were publishe under the subject category of Internal, General Medicine. The subject category of Gastroenterology and Hepatology with the average of 17/96 citation from each article was in the first rank. The highest number of citation for an article was 274. There were seven factors influencing citation : the length of the article, the length of the title, the length of the abstract, the number of keywords, the number of authors, the number of references, and the international collaboration. The findings revealed a significant correlation between the collaborating countries, the number of references and the number of citations. However, the relationship between other effective factors was not significant. Conclusion:The results of this study showed that the highest number of citations is taken from international articles. Therefore, writing articles with international authors is one of the best ways to increase the citation and visibility of the articles.
Iranian Journal of Information Processing & Management, 2016
The extension of the Internet and World Wide Web has created new opportunities as well as new cha... more The extension of the Internet and World Wide Web has created new opportunities as well as new challenges for institutions and individuals who are either receiving or delivering education. Electronic learning is one of the most important breakthroughs in education in which the website is the first access point that users receive educational services provided. Therefore, website quality should be considered as an important factor resulted in the success of virtual learning and studied in a more detailed manner from the e-learners’ perspective. This paper aims to classify the quality aspects of Tehran virtual university website (webqual 4.0) according to the Kano model of customer satisfaction and determine the asymmetric impact of the webqual 4.0 dimensions’ performance on overall user satisfaction in order to prioritize those dimensions in resource allocation, as well as sensitize the managers of the mentioned website. This is a descriptive survey and applied study, and also a cross-...
National Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology
Background: The current study was conducted to investigate the research barriers and challenges f... more Background: The current study was conducted to investigate the research barriers and challenges faced by graduate students in Hamadan University of Medical Sciences. Aims and Objectives: This study is among the applied studies in terms of objective and descriptive survey in terms of method of study. Materials and Methods: Population of the study included 72 graduate students, selected using stratified sampling method among 227 people. The tool of the study included a researcher-developed questionnaire, which contained seven parts including demographic characteristics, personal barriers, organizational barriers, job factors, structural and communicative factors, and normative and ethical factors, and three open questions. The questions related to barriers and the questions related to factors were developed based on the 5-point Likert scale. Results: One of the most important structural and communicative factors influencing the scientific production of graduate students is solving the academic errors of student by professor, stimulating and encouraging the student by professor, stimulating the thought or brainstorming of the student by professor, and student and professor discussion, and exchange of views on the subject. Findings of multiple regressions revealed that job and organizational factors predict 22% scientific productions. Structural and communicative factors and normative and ethical factors predict 31% and 14% of variations invariance, respectively. Conclusion: The priorities influencing the scientific production of graduate students of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences included job and organizational factors, normative and ethical factors, and structural and communicative factors.
Introduction: In the recent decades, emerging and novel issues have been proposed in the field of... more Introduction: In the recent decades, emerging and novel issues have been proposed in the field of reproductive biology leading to increased scientific outputs by scholars. Accordingly, this study sought to identify the scientific trend, the key contributors in this regard, and trend of subjects of research in the field of reproductive biology in Iran. Methods: In this applied and descriptive study, the available literature on embryology and reproductive biology was examined using scientometrics and network analysis methods. The study population consisted of all articles published by Iranian researchers in the field of reproductive biology and indexed in ISI database between 1973 and 2014. Results: The results showed that Iranian scientific output on reproductive biology began with an article in 1973, reaching the total number of 2805 published articles in 2014. Tehran University of Medical Sciences, with 457 publications, is the most important contributor. American and British autho...
Vygotsky’s Action Theory clarifies that humans’ behaviors are mostly derived by socio-cultural ba... more Vygotsky’s Action Theory clarifies that humans’ behaviors are mostly derived by socio-cultural backgrounds. It heavily relies on the fact that information interaction can be affected by afterbirth habits and historical knowledge. Health scholars' web-based information practice is hugely important since they learn while they teach and information practice is a such interaction. Drawing on viewpoint of Vygotsky’s Action theory we studied health scholars’ information practice and investigated the related factors using a qualitative grounded-based theory approach. On a voluntary basis 23 faculty members from School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran were selected and on two stages were asked about their information practice experiences during December 2015 to March 2016 and November to December 2017. Interviews were placed at their university offices, then transcribed, coded and carefully analyzed. We derived 3 themes of ...
PurposeAs a pioneering and influential journal in the field of library and information science (L... more PurposeAs a pioneering and influential journal in the field of library and information science (LIS), the Journal of Documentation (JDoc) needs to be evaluated from a bibliometric perspective. This study aimed at conducting a bibliometric overview and visualization of the scientific output of JDoc from its inception in 1945–2018.Design/methodology/approachIn this bibliometric study, 2056 papers published in JDoc were analyzed. All needed data were extracted from Scopus in 9 July 2019 in CSV format. Bibliometric analyses were done in Microsoft Excel. Visualization was done by Vosviewer software and applying techniques such as co-citation, co-authorship and co-occurrence. As a limited altmetric study, JDoc highly mentioned papers and the rate of their presence in social media were extracted from Altmetric LLP, too.FindingsThere was an increasing trend in published papers and received citations. Highly cited and most influential authors in JDoc are well-known in the field. However, the...
Iranian Journal of Information processing and Management, 2015
The extension of the Internet and World Wide Web has created new opportunities as well as new cha... more The extension of the Internet and World Wide Web has created new opportunities as well as new challenges for institutions and individuals who are either receiving or delivering education. Electronic learning is one of the most important breakthroughs in education in which the website is the first access point that users receive educational services provided. Therefore, website quality should be considered as an important factor resulted in the success of virtual learning and studied in a more detailed manner from the e-learners’ perspective. This paper aims to classify the quality aspects of the Tehran virtual university website (webqual 4.0) according to the Kano model of customer satisfaction and determine the asymmetric impact of the webqual 4.0 dimensions’ performance on overall user satisfaction in order to prioritize those dimensions in resource allocation, as well as sensitize the managers of the mentioned website. This is a descriptive-survey and applied study, and also a cross-sectional one. The study population included Tehran University students studying in virtual courses and the data collection tool was the questionnaire of webqual 4.0, as well as, a researcher-made questionnaire to measure end-user satisfaction. Multiple regression analysis was used to investigate the impact of performance asymmetry. The result showed that usability dimension was the high-performance excitement factor, information quality dimension was a high-performing basic factor, and service interaction dimension had low performance scores and was a basic factor. And finally, a short-term plan to improve service interaction dimension to reduce user discontent and a long-term plan to better both information quality and usability dimensions to increase user satisfaction was proposed.
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