HamidReza Mahmoodi; Mohammad Hassanzadeh
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PurposeUsers' mental image of public libraries reflects their living experience in these places. The accurate understanding of the mental image can help to make accurate and effective policies. This study sought to re-investigate the public library mental image from the perspective of Iranian users.Design/methodology/approachThis ...
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PurposeUsers' mental image of public libraries reflects their living experience in these places. The accurate understanding of the mental image can help to make accurate and effective policies. This study sought to re-investigate the public library mental image from the perspective of Iranian users.Design/methodology/approachThis research is qualitative research. Semi-structured interview method was used to collect data. In this study to analyze collected data the grounded theory has been considered as the main method. In total, 106 interviews with public library users were conducted in 11 provinces. The collected data were coded in 3 steps. The MAX QDA software was used to encode data. Sampling continued until saturation of the concepts, and finally, after receiving the 106th interview the sampling was completed.FindingsFrom the analysis of the interviews, 131 open codes, 49 primary categories, 20 categories, 10 axial codes were obtained. Results gained in this research shed light on users believe that the library is a place to acquire knowledge as well as a place to spend their leisure time. Also findings revealed the libraries space have not enough harmony. It seems that the negative alignment of user-librarian causes the user reluctance to go to the library. Originality/valueAlthough significant quantitative research has been done on user studies of public libraries, but the qualitative approach has been neglected. In addition, the emphasis on understanding the user's mental image distinguished this research from other research.
Ali Akbar Khasseh; Heidar Mokhtari; Mahere Asheghi Moaf
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Nowadays, bibliometrics has been an interdisciplinary field with all scientific fields as its scope. The present study is related to the scientometric study of articles in information retrieval produced in Iran from the beginning of the topic in Persian papers to 2019. This research was an applied research ...
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Nowadays, bibliometrics has been an interdisciplinary field with all scientific fields as its scope. The present study is related to the scientometric study of articles in information retrieval produced in Iran from the beginning of the topic in Persian papers to 2019. This research was an applied research which has been done using scientometric techniques such as citation analysis and co-word analysis. The data required for this research have been extracted from the "Islamic World Science Citation" database. The statistical population was 395 articles in the field of information retrieval, which was analyzed using "BibExcel," "VOSviewer," and " Excel" software packages. Some inconsistencies in author names and keywords have been tried to be unified. There was an increasing trend in published papers and received citations. Highly-cited and most influential authors in the field are well-known in the field. "Rahmatullah Fattahi" is in the first place with 11 articles and 16 citations. 77.72% of the articles have been authored in groups (two or more authors) and the two-authored approach with 154 articles has the most co-authorship approach. Six hundred twenty-six authors participated in writing the articles, which were repeated 923 times in various articles. The largest co-authorship network consists of 27 nodes (authors). "Najla Hariry," "Farideh Osareh," and "Saeed Rezaei Sharifabadi" have the highest score in terms of the centrality of rank, intermediate, and closeness among other researchers, respectively. The keywords "information retrieval," "search engines" and "internet" were the most frequently used keywords in the field of information retrieval. The word pairs of "recall - retrieval accuracy" and "Internet - search engines" were the first and second most frequent pairs of co-occurring-word pairs, respectively. Thematic clustering of articles in this field indicates the existence of eight subject clusters: "search, processing and evaluation information," "Storage and retrieval in information systems," "information behavior," "indexing," "information management and Scientometrics," "search engines," "precision and recall" and "information literacy." Co-authorship network showed that authors in the field tended to author with collaborating each other. Considerable items on information retrival have been published in Persian The acceptance of the co-authorship approach in the production of scientific works in information retrieval indicates the willingness of authors to write co-authored research. However, considering that 54.9% of the authors of this study did not receive the H index, the authors should make more efforts to produce quality articles. The largest cluster of this research is the "search, processing and evaluation information" cluster, which indicates the importance of this issue in information retrieval, and the smallest cluster is the "information literacy" cluster, which needs further research in this research field. The study helps authors identify hot topics and highly-considered subjects in information retrieval and provide a pattern for conducting scientometric analyses in similar fields.
Golnessa Galyani-Moghaddam; Seyed Mahdi Taheri
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Purpose: This study evaluates the position of Iranian Universities with an emphasisonAllameh Tabatab’i University (ATU) in four international university ranking systems including Shanghai, QS, Times, and ISC.
Methodology: This is an applied research. The method of comparative research, the method ...
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Purpose: This study evaluates the position of Iranian Universities with an emphasisonAllameh Tabatab’i University (ATU) in four international university ranking systems including Shanghai, QS, Times, and ISC.
Methodology: This is an applied research. The method of comparative research, the method of collecting library information, and the tool for checklist research are based on the indicators of each of the mentioned ranking systems.
Results: Findings show that 80 percent of the total published papers (as a key indicator) with an ATU affiliation appeared in Iranian journals and only 20 percent of the papers appeared in international journals. Despite the improving state of Allameh Tabataba'i University, it is still positioned relatively far from the top international universities in various other ranking indicators.
Conclusion: The results show that until the end of 2016 Allameh Tabatab’i University did not have a great position in three of the international university ranking systems—Shanghai, QS, and Times. However, in 2015 and 2016 the ISC ranked Allameh Tabatab’i University the second in Iranian universities in the field of humanities.
Zohreh Pourkarimi Daranjani; Golnessa Galyani-Moghaddam; Ali Jalali Dizaji
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The purpose of this study is to analyze the scientific cooperation network of Iranian researchers in the field of social sciences at the Web-based site from the beginning to the end of 2014. Scientometrics and network analysis indicators were used. Statistical population consists of scientific production ...
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The purpose of this study is to analyze the scientific cooperation network of Iranian researchers in the field of social sciences at the Web-based site from the beginning to the end of 2014. Scientometrics and network analysis indicators were used. Statistical population consists of scientific production of Iranian researchers in the Web of Science since the appearance of the first publication (with an affiliation to an Iranian university/institute) to the end of 2014 (9318 articles). The data were extracted from the Web of Science and analysed by Bibexcel, HistCite, and VOS Viewer. The findings of the research indicate that the articles of cooperation in the field of social sciences have been on a par with the following years. Based on the findings of the research, Iran's position in Middle Eastern countries is ranked third among the countries of Zionist regime and Turkey in terms of scientific production. Iran collaborated most with USA, UK, and Canada.The result showed 46.08 percent inter-institutional collaboration, 24.55 per cent intra-institutional collaboration, and 22 percent international collaboration. Overall, results indicated the average collaboration coefficient was 64%, and the trend has been upward, which indicates an increased willingness by Iranians authors for cooperative papers. The most dominated model of authorship was two and three authored articles respectively. In general, the findings of this study indicate the willingness of researchers to produce science in a collaborative way.
Tahereh Salamati; Ehsan Vaezi; Mehdi Memarpour; Ali Rajabzadeh
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The growing importance of commercialization and special attention paid to this topic of discussion at global university level makes the study on this matter justifiable. On basis of this assumption the commercialization which has been named as the connection link between universities and industries or ...
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The growing importance of commercialization and special attention paid to this topic of discussion at global university level makes the study on this matter justifiable. On basis of this assumption the commercialization which has been named as the connection link between universities and industries or (market) must become operational in the frame work of a practical and effective model.The study and evaluation of the practical models widely used in the world reveals that, the environmental factors play an important role in the process of commercialization. Therefore, the model to be designed and chosen must be indigenous and suitable for domestic conditions of the country. In other words, it should applicable to and practical for the use in Iranian organizations. In this study, it has been tried to present a comprehensive model. By designing a comprehensive model in this connection, this significant matter has been fulfilled in this research. Also, in line with the nature of the design of this model the major roles of the fundamental researches has been examined and an algorithm suitable for the country research environment which can oversee the innovative activities of commercial firms (with special emphasis on academic innovation) has been prepared which is more appropriate for the ideas coming out from the heart of university researches that is most proper for the use in academic firms and institutes and also to can be used in incubators and development centers. Of course, this algorithm and procedure with slight changes can also have a general application.
Golnessa Galyani-Moghaddam; Hassan Jafari; Ashgar Sattarzadeh
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This research is set to study scientific publications published by faculty members of Allameh Tabatab’i University in two international citation indexes including the Science Citation Index and Scopus. Duration of the study was 1987 till the end of 2015. Scientometrics methods were used to do the ...
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This research is set to study scientific publications published by faculty members of Allameh Tabatab’i University in two international citation indexes including the Science Citation Index and Scopus. Duration of the study was 1987 till the end of 2015. Scientometrics methods were used to do the study. Searches in the mentioned databases were the main tool of data gathering. The results show that the growth rate was 29.49 and 32.51, and density indicator is 0.008 and 0.005 in the Science Citation Index and Scopus respectively. This indicates a low density and low collaboration among authors. Faculty of Management and Accounting was the most productive one. The United States of America and Switzerland were top countries in international scientific collaborations. In addition, scientific collaboration at national level was mostly done by authors from the Islamic Azad University, Tehran University and Amir Kabir University of Technology. There was an overlap of 21 percent among indexed publications by the two databases.
Aref Riahi; Afshin Mousavi
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Aim: Scientific journals are identified as one the most important indicator for Progress and development in new world. This study aims to Comparative Comparison of growth of Asian scientific journals indexed in Scopus database and recognize Iranian journal position. Methods: This research is applied ...
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Aim: Scientific journals are identified as one the most important indicator for Progress and development in new world. This study aims to Comparative Comparison of growth of Asian scientific journals indexed in Scopus database and recognize Iranian journal position. Methods: This research is applied and descriptive-Survey and all Asian journals which indexed in Scopus database during 2000-2015 make Statistical population. Data were collected from www.Scimagojr.com and all journals from any subject were retrieved. We used SPSS and Excel software for analysis data. Findings: Finding shows that there is a positive growth on number of scientific journals’ of Asian countries during the study. Also, most of journals published in Medicine field and quality of east and southeast journals were much better than west and Middle East countries. Conclusion: In order to growth of Iranian journal in scientific database, policy and planning by manager of Health and Science Government of Iran are suggested. Also it is necessary to increase trend of English language for Iranian scientific journal to see more contribution of Iranian journals in region and Asia. Key words: Scientific Journals, Scopus Database, Asian Countries, Iran
Asghar Sattarzadeh; Golnessa Galyani Moghaddam; Esmat Momeni
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The present study aimed to determine the levels of Iranian collaboration and to analyze scientific collaboration network in the area of basic medical sciences, in the Science Citation Index from 1996 to 2013. Scientometric methods and network analysis have been used for the study. The study sample consisted ...
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The present study aimed to determine the levels of Iranian collaboration and to analyze scientific collaboration network in the area of basic medical sciences, in the Science Citation Index from 1996 to 2013. Scientometric methods and network analysis have been used for the study. The study sample consisted of 1040 articles published in the field of stem cells, molecular medicine and computational biology, subfields of basic medical sciences and science priorities in the comprehensive scientific map, extracted from the Science Citation Index. The results show that Inter-institutional collaboration in the field of basic medical sciences was 23.94%, Intra- institutional collaboration was 52.02%, and the level of international collaboration was 23.08%. The result of macro indicators of collaboration network analysis in this area of the study was as follows: density of networks: 0.018; network clustering coefficient: 0.831; geodesic distance: 3.334; network diameter 9 and network components: 24. The result of micro indicators of Social Network Analysis was as follows: degree centrality: 2.346%; betweenness centrality: 31.69%; closeness centrality: 3.522%; and Eigenvector Centrality: 85.18%. It can be concluded that scientific collaboration network in the basic medical sciences area was not coherent enough and adequate communication and collaboration have not happened.
Saeid Asadi; Nazanin Ferouni Shamili
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Three institutes (i.e., Islamic Research Institute for Culture and Thought (IICT), Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies (IHCS) and the Research Institute for Humanities and Social Science (IHSS) of Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research (ACECR)) were selected for the survey. A total ...
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Three institutes (i.e., Islamic Research Institute for Culture and Thought (IICT), Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies (IHCS) and the Research Institute for Humanities and Social Science (IHSS) of Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research (ACECR)) were selected for the survey. A total of 116 researchers were identified affiliated to the above research institutes who published 575 items from 2007 to 2013. Using scientometric techniques, the trends and frequency of the collaborations within each institute, between three institutes and external ties were carefully studied and visualized using Pajek software. With 307 publications, IHCS showed the best performance. In total, 169 collaborations were detected by the institutions with only one international co-authorship and no collaboration with two other humanities research institutes. The co-authorship index was calculated 1.4. It can be concluded that the Iranian research institutes for humanities are not connected well in terms of scientific collaborations.
