Research Paper
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.
Research Paper
Azam Najafgholinejad
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Awareness of users' perceptions and interpretations of the information labels of the user interface of digital library of the NLAI. The present study was an applied research with a mixed method. Data were collected through a researcher-made questionnaire, interview, and observation. Through a exploratory ...
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Awareness of users' perceptions and interpretations of the information labels of the user interface of digital library of the NLAI. The present study was an applied research with a mixed method. Data were collected through a researcher-made questionnaire, interview, and observation. Through a exploratory method, participants were asked to spend considerable time and in-depth to examine the categories, elements, and labels used in the digital library website and to determine their understanding of the website labels in the online questionnaire in the form of a Likert scale. Then, the semi-structured interview technique was used to study users' perceptions and interpretations of the labels assigned to the elements on the website. The study population included users of the digital library of the NLAI, which was selected in two groups of novice users (clients) and advanced users (librarians) of 20 people (10 novice users and 10 advanced users). In order to validate the research results, Methodological angulation was used to increase the reliability of the research data. During this method, the researcher used several methods to collect data (using interviews with observation, exploratory study, and questionnaire), as well as all research strategies and steps with the necessary documentation at the time of data collection were recorded. Finally, after collecting the data, the researcher used the Member checking method. During this quality control process, the researcher asked the 7 participants to read the notes and the results of the data and express their opinion on the accuracy of the findings. Cronbach's alpha test (0.85) was used to ensure the reliability of the data collection tool and the possible problems of the questionnaire. SPSS software was used to analyze the research data. Content analysis and Excel software were used to analyze the interview data. The results showed that the final average of comprehensibility of labels and terms used in the website is over 50% and indicates a good understanding of the terms and labels used in the website to represent information categories, but some labels need to be changed and updated. Some terms are not very understandable from the users' point of view and need to be revised, such as: "review", "quick look", "typical classification", "source registration", "legal considerations", "main site", "texts", "Periodical" and "Collection". The friendliness and user-friendliness of the words on the website, and the ban on the use of specialized, complex, and ambiguous words were among the demands of the users. New terms and labels were suggested by users. The use of specialized library terminology on the website, intangible and abstract words and lack of sufficient explanations about labels, lack of a comprehensive guide, going into more detail, complications on the website, and inconsistency in the use of words for similar concepts are some of the problems that cause the user does not have a good browsing experience.
Research Paper
Mohammad Hassan Azimi; Shahnaz Khademizadeh; Masoumeh Heydarzadeh
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The purpose of this study was to Survey of the success key factors application in the implementation of knowledge management in Water and Power Organization of Khuzestan.This research is applied in terms of purpose and a quantitative by using a descriptive survey method. The data collection tool is a ...
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The purpose of this study was to Survey of the success key factors application in the implementation of knowledge management in Water and Power Organization of Khuzestan.This research is applied in terms of purpose and a quantitative by using a descriptive survey method. The data collection tool is a questionnaire whose reliability was calculated by Cronbach's alpha test of 0.87. In the present study, one-sample test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test has been used. The data of this study were analyzed using SPSS software version 26. The results indicate that the mean of organizational structure (2.89) in knowledge management implemented in the Khuzestan Water and Power Organization is lower than average. Regarding the status of organizational culture (3.20) in knowledge management implemented in Khuzestan Water and power Organization, the results showed that the mean acquisition is higher than average. The results show that the mean status of information technology (3.23) in knowledge management implemented in Khuzestan Water and power Organization is higher than average While the results indicate that the mean status of human resources (2.75) in knowledge management implemented in the Khuzestan Water and power Organization is lower than average. Finally, the results indicate that the leadership status (3.75) in the knowledge management implemented in the Khuzestan Water and power Organization is higher than average. Among the success key factors for the implemented knowledge management; The organizational structure and human resources are not at the desired level and it is necessary to provide the ground for improving the status of these factors by planning in this regard.
Research Paper
Kobra Gooran Orimi; Mitra Ghiasi; Safiyeh Tahmasebi Limooni
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Designing green websites using green user interface components improves their energy expenditure efficiency. This research aim to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the Iranian digital libraries’ websites according to the UI Green metric criteria. This applied study adopted a webometrics ...
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Designing green websites using green user interface components improves their energy expenditure efficiency. This research aim to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the Iranian digital libraries’ websites according to the UI Green metric criteria. This applied study adopted a webometrics approach. Our research population was 59 digital libraries’ websites. Our tool was a researcher-made checklist. Experts certified its validity. Its reliability was confirmed using Cronbach’s Alpha test (alpha=0.758). Websites were evaluated both by two online tool and by website advisors and designers. We analyzed data using descriptive and inferential statistics (binomial and chi-squared tests). Our results showed a significant difference in user interface design between the studied websites (P=0.030). Most websites(28.8%) are middle-level. Academic (25.8%) and non-academic digital libraries (28.6%) are at a good level. Ranking the Iranian digital libraries showed that the digital libraries of Payame Noor University(by Ertebatat Payme Mashregh Engineering Co.), Fatemeh Masumah Holy Shrine (by Pars Azarakhsh), Astan Quds Razavi (by Astan Quds Razavi Holy Shrine) are in the excellent level by scoring the total 25 points. Two digital libraries, the digital library of Iran University of Medical Sciences (by Yekta Web Afzar Shargh Co.) and Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (by Pars Azarakhsh Co.), are in the last place in complying with the intended components by scoring 7. Iranian digital libraries have an above-average status in using the green user interface. Furthermore, the green user interface components of academic and non-academic digital library websites were in good level.
Research Paper
Zahra Sadeghi; Mohammad reza Motadel; Abbas Toloie
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Making more profit in organizations requires accurate tools to strengthen the business for proper financial planning. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to demonstrate knowledge of the neural network to provide a framework for achieving the desired profit in the organization's financial planning. ...
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Making more profit in organizations requires accurate tools to strengthen the business for proper financial planning. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to demonstrate knowledge of the neural network to provide a framework for achieving the desired profit in the organization's financial planning. This research was of the applied type and was performed by the analytical survey method. The study population was the organizations present in the Exchange and Securities Organization, and the data extracted from the official system of the Exchange and Securities Organization of Iran (Cadal) were used. This research was conducted using the neural network method in a MATLAB program environment. Findings The range of changes of factors affecting the main index in the organization's financial planning (profit) and the most important factors affecting it were determined. The proposed framework was reviewed in three different sets of three various industries and had acceptable results. Therefore, the study results indicated that the proposed framework in this study could be used for other organizations present in the stock exchange and securities.
Research Paper
Soraya Zangeneh; Fariba Zangeneh; Amin Zare
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Investigation of the residents of kermanshah city’s the everyday life information-seeking (ELIS) behavior: a study of the kurd folk with an emphasis on the theory of life in the round. The present study was applied and surveyed The sample size was 384 with Cochran’s formula. Sampling was ...
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Investigation of the residents of kermanshah city’s the everyday life information-seeking (ELIS) behavior: a study of the kurd folk with an emphasis on the theory of life in the round. The present study was applied and surveyed The sample size was 384 with Cochran’s formula. Sampling was performed using two stage cluster sampling. The research instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire. The data were analyzed by SPSS software version 24. The news was the most important daily information channel of Kurd Folk. Respondents used more than external messengers like Telegram and WhatsApp with a significant different compared to native messengers. Variables mean of ethnic identity (3.88), national identity (4.03) and sense of discrimination (3.14) were got. Findings showed demographic variables did not affect on the correlation between ethnic identity, national identity, feelings of discrimination with (ELIS)Behaviour. amount of The Adjusted R-Squared in Multivariate regression by method stepwise showed that 26% of the changes the Kurd Folk's (ELIS) Behavior were predicted by the independent variables of ethnic identity, and sense of discrimination. The results showed that the Kurd Folk’s ELIS Behaviour is a complex concept that it is influenced by many variables that independent variables of ethnic identity and sense of discrimination were able to predict a little over a quarter of its changes. Therefore, it is necessary to examine other predictors and factors influencing the behavior of this folk.
Research Paper
Mahboubeh Rabiei; Vahidreza Mirzaeian
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Natural language processing as a branch of computational linguistics whose main effort is to use computers in the process of automating the understanding and processing of human natural language and focusing on human-computer interaction has found ab important place in various fields of science including ...
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Natural language processing as a branch of computational linguistics whose main effort is to use computers in the process of automating the understanding and processing of human natural language and focusing on human-computer interaction has found ab important place in various fields of science including information science and knowledge. The main purpose of this study is to identify the sub-branches and sub-fields of information science and knowledge in which natural language processing has been effective, and has been done through library and documentary analysis. located deals with the role of digital libraries in the field of information science and application of natural languages processing in them. The result of this study shows that natural language processing in many sub-fields related to information science such as information retrieval, bibliometric, document management, automatic information extraction, automatic indexing , automatic text summarization, automatic text classification, question and answer systems and using spell checker technology, debugging user query phrase and predicting their preferred words, translating speech in to text and vice versa and helping users with physical disabilities such as the visually impaired and the blind, surveying and analyzing the sense of libraries and information centers is Traceable.
