Maryam Shekofteh; Mostafa Karimi; Maryam Kazerani; Farid Zayeri; Forough Rahimi
Volume 15, Issue 2 , June 2017
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This study aimed at investigating scientific collaboration and analyzing co-authorship networks in pharmacology and pharmacy research studies in Iran. Data used for this scientometric study included all pharmacology and pharmacy documents of Iran, indexed in Web of Science (WOS) from 2003 to 2014 and ...
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This study aimed at investigating scientific collaboration and analyzing co-authorship networks in pharmacology and pharmacy research studies in Iran. Data used for this scientometric study included all pharmacology and pharmacy documents of Iran, indexed in Web of Science (WOS) from 2003 to 2014 and were analyzed using citation analysis section of WOS and Excell and SPSS. Citespace, and Gephi softwares were used for visualization and analysis of co-authorship network. The dominant co-authorship pattern was four-author pattern, with collaboration index, degree of collaboration and collaboration coefficient of 4.49, 0.96 and 0.691 respectively. The obtained density for co-authorship network and the clustering coefficient mean were 0.3 and 0.306 respectively. Despite the fact that the collaboration index in the field of pharmacology and pharmacy was much greater compared to other fields, the networks' total average density signified a great sparseness of co-authorship network. The clustering coefficient mean indicated that the network members' tendency towards forming different clusters was relatively low. There was no meaningful relationship between collaboration index and the number of productions as well as collaboration index and the citation impact. Authors indicated a greater tendency towards co-authorship. It is recommended that senior officials in scientific communities pay more attention to scientific collaboration activities, allocation of budget and appropriate facilities, and providing suitable circumstance to encourage more collaboration. It is recommended also, researchers pay more attention to constant team working with colleagues and students.
Chandran Velmurugan; Natarajan Radhakrishnan
Volume 15, Issue 2 , June 2017
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This study investigate the observations of research publications in the field of Phytochemistry in India as reflected from the Web of Science (WoS) core collection database during 1994-2014. As per the database, a total 1280 scholarly publications with 1216 citations and 2083 cited references were found ...
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This study investigate the observations of research publications in the field of Phytochemistry in India as reflected from the Web of Science (WoS) core collection database during 1994-2014. As per the database, a total 1280 scholarly publications with 1216 citations and 2083 cited references were found and have retrieved in worldwide and from India, 121 research outputs with 1446 citations and 473 authors and the cited references are 8732 were collected in the time span of 21 years. This paper discusses the various types of Phytochemistry publications such as articles, reviews, article based proceedings papers, correction and editorial materials. This paper deals with in terms of authorship pattern, single vs. joint - authored research publications, International collaboration, Institution based collaboration, subject based categories, most cited references, ranking of core journals, highly cited authors, papers and productive keywords. This paper highlights different parameters in terms of evaluation such as h-index, g-index, e-index, hc-index, HI-index, HI-norm, HI-annual, hm-index, AW-index, AWCR, and AWCRpA.
Saeideh Ebrahimi; Fatemeh Setareh
Volume 15, Issue 2 , June 2017
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A review on previous literature shows that there is a correlation between discussion and recommendation. Therefore, we aimed to assess the relationship between these two metrics in four systems (Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed Central, and CrossRef) simultaneously and separately. This was a descriptive ...
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A review on previous literature shows that there is a correlation between discussion and recommendation. Therefore, we aimed to assess the relationship between these two metrics in four systems (Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed Central, and CrossRef) simultaneously and separately. This was a descriptive correlational study on 90728 research articles published in seven biomedical journals in the PLOS system during 2009-2013. The sample size was calculated based on the Cochrane formula to be 1892 articles. For data collection, PLOS system was used which enables free access to the articles of important biomedical journals. This system includes 7 journals cited from 2003. Data were analyzed usingSPSSsoftware, version21. Inthis study, we found a negative and statistically significant correlation between discussion on Twitter and the citation-based systems. We found no correlation between discussion on Facebook and citation. On the other hand, we found a positive and statistically significant correlation between recommendation by F1000 and citation. We found that discussion on virtual networks and recommendation are two types of feedback in virtual environments. However, among the various systems, the F1000 and Wikipedia were able to provide significant feedback leading to citation.
Mahsa Nikzad
Volume 15, Issue 2 , June 2017
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The aim of this article is to study factors that affect continuance and gaps or transience in scientific activity of Iranian scholars. Scientific activity here is considered as writing and publishing articles in ISI ranked journals. Email interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 48 scholars ...
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The aim of this article is to study factors that affect continuance and gaps or transience in scientific activity of Iranian scholars. Scientific activity here is considered as writing and publishing articles in ISI ranked journals. Email interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 48 scholars from the fields of biotechnology, psychology, humanities, health policy & services, aerial engineering, behavioral sciences, chemistry, and information science in 2015. The chosen fields were mentioned as priority in the Iranian scientific roadmap. The interviews were the qualitative phase of a mixed-methods study. The scholars were asked about the reasons for transience and suggestions for increasing continuance in article writing. The interviews revealed nine categories of factors causing gaps in the scientific works including personal and family factors, internal and external motivating factors, factors relating to work environment and facilities and the nature of the field, factors relating to publishing process, and finally factors relating to the knowledge of ISI journals. Interdisciplinary differences were found with regard to these factors, and five groups of solutions were suggested by interviewees for improving the continuance in authorship including providing research requirements, motivating researchers, encouraging team work, empowerment or enabling, and helping creativity or idea fostering.DOR: 98.1000/1726-8125.2017.15.43.0.2.70.115
Pius Olatunji Olaojo; John Adeboye Oyeboade; Ajibola Sunmade Gbotosho
Volume 15, Issue 2 , June 2017
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The study was designed to investigate social support and work motivation as factors affecting work commitment of library personnel in private universities in South-West, Nigeria. Descriptive research design of the correlational type was adopted. Structured questionnaire was used to collect the data. ...
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The study was designed to investigate social support and work motivation as factors affecting work commitment of library personnel in private universities in South-West, Nigeria. Descriptive research design of the correlational type was adopted. Structured questionnaire was used to collect the data. Simple frequency count and percentage distribution, mean, standard deviation, ANOVA and correlation matrix table was used for the data analysis using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The findings of the study revealed that respondents have moderate work commitment in their various libraries. The findings revealed that there is significant positive relationship between: social support and work commitment of the library personnel (r = .111*; p < 0.05), work motivation and work commitment of the library personnel (r = .032*; df = 205; p < 0.05). Hence, the main factors that hinder work commitment of the library personnel include: insensitivity to library staff welfare, inability to acquire state of the art working equipment, poor funding of the library, among others.
Roland Izuagbe
Volume 15, Issue 2 , June 2017
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The paper analyses relevant literature with a view to drawing attention to the challenges posed by publishers’ licenses on sustainable e-resources integration in academic libraries. To this end, two research objectives were formulated to guide the study in achieving its aims and a conceptual model ...
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The paper analyses relevant literature with a view to drawing attention to the challenges posed by publishers’ licenses on sustainable e-resources integration in academic libraries. To this end, two research objectives were formulated to guide the study in achieving its aims and a conceptual model developed for gaining insight into the fountainhead of the identified challenges. Accordingly, the study shows that: the proliferation of publishers’ business models, non-transferability of e-resources accesses/contents to a third party, the publishers’ ‘reserved right’ to draft e-resources agreements and to add or withdraw titles from packages without external input, dearth of academic titles in e-book packages etc. are due to publishers’ profit motive. Guided by this revelation, the study recommends the consolidation of publishers’ business models with a view to achieving uniformity of licenses, increasing affordability to ensure sustainability of e-resources integration in academic libraries.DOR: 98.1000/1726-8125.2017.15.79.0.2.80.119
Zeinab Bahmani; Mohammad Reza Farhadpoor; Mohsen Hamidi
Volume 15, Issue 2 , June 2017
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The purpose of the present study is to identify the features of information sources and its influence on managers' environmental scanning behavior in second industrial area of Ahvaz. An analytical survey method is used to analyze the relationship between variables. The findings showed that from among ...
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The purpose of the present study is to identify the features of information sources and its influence on managers' environmental scanning behavior in second industrial area of Ahvaz. An analytical survey method is used to analyze the relationship between variables. The findings showed that from among 16 information sources, managers used subordinate staff (M=3.37) more than other sources for environmental scanning. Also they revealed that work experts had the greatest quality and richness with means of (M=3.81) and (M=3.69), respectively; and that subordinate staff (M=3.58) were the most accessible information sources. In addition, the personal information sources within the organization, compared to impersonal sources out of the organization were more qualified, accessible and rich. Executives used managers or assistants' (M=3.73) as information sources more frequently than other information sources in environmental scanning. Furthermore the results of testing hypotheses showed that there was a significant relationship between perceived accessibility, quality, and richness of the source from the view point of managers and the frequency with which managers used it for environmental scanning.
Faramarz Soheili; Saleh Rahimi; Ali Mansouri; Ziba Tousi
Volume 15, Issue 2 , June 2017
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The aim of this study was to investigate the term Nano in subject categories of patents and to analyze the conceptual relationship between them. The method of this study is based on the study of mathematical models of the disease outbreaks. Population composed of published patents which used the words ...
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The aim of this study was to investigate the term Nano in subject categories of patents and to analyze the conceptual relationship between them. The method of this study is based on the study of mathematical models of the disease outbreaks. Population composed of published patents which used the words of “Nano" or "Nanotechnology” in the title or abstract. The patents retrieved from the Institute of Patent and Trademark of United States of America (USPTO). The findings showed that the patents trend had an exponential relationship and an incremental growth. So that the absolute number of patents has increased from 2 in 1995 to 1474 patents in 2013. The cumulative growth of subclasses has been involved in Nano subject over time that has an S state logistics, which is reached from 2 in 1995 to 3032 in 2014. The results showed that the USPTO patents at this time confirm the theory of Goffman (1971) that transmits of an idea as the dissemination of influenza are reversible.
Hoda Shaker; Mohammad Reza Farhadpoor; Fariba Nazari
Volume 15, Issue 2 , June 2017
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Expansion and reformulation of queries are among the most common strategies employed by users in retrieval of initial results to coordinate them with their needs. The present study examines the expansion and reformulation of queries and their impact on improving the precisionof the retrieval results.The ...
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Expansion and reformulation of queries are among the most common strategies employed by users in retrieval of initial results to coordinate them with their needs. The present study examines the expansion and reformulation of queries and their impact on improving the precisionof the retrieval results.The analytical survey method was used to evaluate the relationship between the variables. The study was conducted on the MA students of the Information Science and Knowledgein Islamic Azad University of Ahvaz, Khuzestan Science and Research Branch, who had the seminar course(n=28). The data were collected using a researcher-made questionnaire. The results showed the lack of enough time to review all the retrieved results as the most important reason for the expansion and reformulation of queries (mean = 4.66). In addition, the users reported different perceived usefulness of the expansion and reformulation tools for the retrieval results where they perceived the reformulation strategy more useful (mean =3.781). Furthermore, the precision of the initial results was significantly increased using the reformulation tools. The tools including limiting the search terms by the resource title, subject, year, and searching the initial results enhance the overall precision of the initial results. However, for the expansion tools, using these limiting approaches resulted in no significant difference between the precision of initial results and the final retrieval results. The results show that using the expansion and reformulation tools to correct the initial search may have different reasons. Moreover, the use of these tools affects the precision of searches.
Mohammad Reza Ghane; Sara Koleini; Mohammad Bagher Dastgheib
Volume 15, Issue 2 , June 2017
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The Digital Object Recognizer (DOR) is a system for identifying Persian digital objects on the web. DOR is a unique alphanumeric string assigned by Regional Information Center for Science and Technology (RICeST) to any entity to identify content and provide a persistent link to its location on the Internet ...
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The Digital Object Recognizer (DOR) is a system for identifying Persian digital objects on the web. DOR is a unique alphanumeric string assigned by Regional Information Center for Science and Technology (RICeST) to any entity to identify content and provide a persistent link to its location on the Internet digital networks. The paper describes the construction and functions of the DOR system for Persian articles and then introduces and outlines the underlying architecture regarding DOR system. The study concluded that using DOR will enable Iranian journal publishers assign it to both print and electronic journal articles; finally enumerated the benefits of DOI for stakeholders in the scholarly communication process. DOR: 98.1000/2142-1735.2017.15.135.0.2.68.115
Niloofar Mohaghegh; Maryam Zarghani; Iman Tahamtan; Ahmad Ghasghaee; Sorayya Mousavi
Volume 15, Issue 2 , June 2017
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Research centres have been always trying to promote their knowledge translation activities. Thus, understanding the status of knowledge translation in research centres is of high importance. The aim of this study was to investigate the status of knowledge translation in Iranian medical research centres ...
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Research centres have been always trying to promote their knowledge translation activities. Thus, understanding the status of knowledge translation in research centres is of high importance. The aim of this study was to investigate the status of knowledge translation in Iranian medical research centres to identify their weaknesses and strengths. This was a cross-sectional and descriptive study. To collect the data, we used a self-assessment tool which consisted of four domains: “research question”, “knowledge production”, “knowledge transfer”, and “the use of evidence”. Data was analyzed using SPSS and descriptive statistics. The mean score of “knowledge translation” in the studied research centres was 3.21 (SD= 0.69, Median= 3.29). “Knowledge production” obtained the highest score (M= of 3.6, SD= 0.72), followed by “knowledge transfer” (M=3.16, SD =0.76), “research question” (M=3.09, SD= 0.73), and “the use of evidence” (M= 2.95, SD= 0.98). Medical research centres had a proper situation in all aspects of knowledge translation. However, they should try to identify and prioritize the research questions of stakeholders and target groups by making more efficient relationship with them. They should also prepare appropriate reports of research results and should consider enough budgets for disseminating the reports among target groups and healthcare decision makers in order to allow them understand the actionable message of research results.
