Nahid Shahveisi; Gholamreza Heidari; Vakil Ahmadi
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The present study analyzes the research background section of the five master's theses in the fields of Information science and epistemology, social sciences, psychology, political science and counseling in the years 1393 to 1398 of Razi University, Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences. This research ...
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The present study analyzes the research background section of the five master's theses in the fields of Information science and epistemology, social sciences, psychology, political science and counseling in the years 1393 to 1398 of Razi University, Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences. This research has been studied by the method of quantitative content analysis of the applied type, 140 dissertation titles were inspected. The tool used in this research is a checklist. Mean data comparison tests were used to analyze the data. It shows that in terms of structure in the field, the field of consulting has the highest average and the field of political science has the lowest average in terms of structure. In terms of content by discipline, the social sciences have the highest average and the field of psychology the lowest. In the "by year" structure, the closer the research backgrounds are to 1998, the better they are, and in terms of content, the closer they get to 1998, the weaker they are. This means that the research backgrounds were better in 1993 and 1994. The findings also indicate the second place of the field of information science and epistemology among other fields. In this field, in terms of structure based on year, the year 1395, and in terms of content, the year 93 had a better situation among other years. The results indicate that according to the criteria, the research background is relatively good in terms of structure, but weak in terms of content, and not of good quality.
Zahra Kazemi; Ali Jalali Dizaji
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Purpose: this research aims at a citation analysis of the references consulted to write dissertations in the field of urban planning within 1389-1390 at Tarbiat Modares University. Methodology: The method used is citation analysis. The statistical population of the study comprised all 52 theses in the ...
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Purpose: this research aims at a citation analysis of the references consulted to write dissertations in the field of urban planning within 1389-1390 at Tarbiat Modares University. Methodology: The method used is citation analysis. The statistical population of the study comprised all 52 theses in the field of urban planningat Tarbiat Modares University within 1389-1390, covering 3688 references. All of these citations were reviewed independently based oncensus method. The references of the theses were received in the process of data. Collection by consulting the library site and the data was analyzed based on Microsoft Excel 2007, Bradford law and half-life formula. Findings: On the average 80 references have been consulted in order to write each thesis. %56/53 of the references were Farsi and %43/45 Non –Farsi, I.e English and the other European Languages such as French. In terms of reference Frequency: the highest rate (1162) goes to Farsi books and the lowest one to Non Farsi theses. Also, the most cited authors and sources, the half-life was identified and nuclear sources were assigned based on Bradford's law. It also turned out that the more recent the data of publication of a book is, the less it has been referred to. For over %50 of dissertations Tarbiat Modares University theses have been referred to. Conclusion: To write theses, mostly Farsi sources have been referred to. Sources and authors identified as the most referred ones according to Bradford Law, can be used for the selection of library resources and given the resources half-life which is a criterion for assessing how recent each resource is, it can be concluded that recent references and resources haven’t been applied.
