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  1 - Citation analysis and mapping Library & Information Science in WOS citation database 1993-2011
  Maryam okhovati halimeh Sadeghi Ali Talebian Mohammadreza Baneshi
  Purpose: Mapping is a method to represent scientific output in a field of science. This study aims at mapping LIS publications in Web of Science during 1993-2011. Methdology: The type of  survey is scientometric. To do this, web of science (WOS) database was searc More

  Purpose: Mapping is a method to represent scientific output in a field of science. This study aims at mapping LIS publications in Web of Science during 1993-2011. Methdology: The type of  survey is scientometric. To do this, web of science (WOS) database was searched and total records were downloaded and imported into histcite software and analyzed. This software can analyze the records in the files of author, journal, institution and ect . Some of them  were entered to excel for further analysis. The map of  science constructed based on global citation scores (gcs). Findings:5097 records were retrieved. HistCite was used to make maps. The average growth rate was % 0.013. The papers were published in ninety-nine journal. The electronic library journal published more than other journals. 2466 universities and colleges contributed and Illinois university published the most papers. Bawden, Budd and Nicholas were the most active authors. While 82 countries contributed in publications U.S. published the most papers. Contribution coefficient was relatively low (0.24). Three clusters were identified. The dominant subjects in three clusters were “information seeking behavior”, “information retrieval” (1st cluster), “children information seeking  behavior” (2nd), “information retrieval”, “visualization” and “scientometrics” (3rd cluster). Conclusion: In this study, major magazines, active authors and major institutions, leading countries, of library and information science were determined, to be a good model for our country researchers to improve the qualitative and quantitative of their researches. Manuscript profile
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  2 - Evaluation of Iran scientific productions based on ISI statistics during 2006- 2007
  mohammad hasanzadeh abdalreza nourozi chakely
  Using indicators and statistics of ISI, this paper comparatively evaluates Iran indexed scientific productions through 2006 to 2007. According to the number of indexed scientific production in WOS, Iran is in a good situation in terms of the growth rate. Tehran Universi More

  Using indicators and statistics of ISI, this paper comparatively evaluates Iran indexed scientific productions through 2006 to 2007. According to the number of indexed scientific production in WOS, Iran is in a good situation in terms of the growth rate. Tehran University had the most scientific productions in WOS in 2007. Also, according to the statistics of ESI, Iran is in the second place after Turkey among Islamic countries and is in the fortieth place in the world, during the last ten years. Most of the scientific productions of Iran was indexed in SCIE section of WOS and published in English "article" formats. Based on JCR statistics, three Iranian Journals in 2005 were indexed in SCI section of this database and three more journals were added to it in 2006. Shiraz University had the most journals in JCR in 2006.   Manuscript profile
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  3 - Scientometric study of Iranian Marine Science researchers’ outputs on three water Bodies Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf and Oman Sea in Web of Science during 1992 to 2013
  Masoumeh Dalvand Maryam Keshvari Homira Agah
  Purpose: The aim of this study is investigating Iranian marine science outputs  based on Science Citation Index-Expanded published by the Thomson Reuters and determination of the co-authorship Iranian marine researchers related to scientific outputs between 1992 to More

  Purpose: The aim of this study is investigating Iranian marine science outputs  based on Science Citation Index-Expanded published by the Thomson Reuters and determination of the co-authorship Iranian marine researchers related to scientific outputs between 1992 to 2013 on three water bodies Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf and Oman Sea. Methodology: Scientometrics indicators were used. The data were extracted in plain text format from SCIE, analyzed using HistCite software and counted in MS office Excel program. Findings: The results of this study demonstrated that 749 scientific documents were recorded in the SCI by Iranian marine researchers during 1992-2013, which are consisted of 323, 368 and 58 documents relevant to the Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf and Oman Sea, respectively. The highest participation rate belonged to the documents with three or five authors, While the highest co-authorship rate (99%) in the three water bodies occurred in 2013. Our study on the three water bodies data based on Bradford’s and Lotka’s laws indicated the rejection of Lotka’s laws and confirming Bradford’s rule. Among the three water bodies during the study period, the Caspian water basin allocated the highest authors (819) and authors with highest publications (17 papers). Our findings demonstrated that Malaysian and German authors  took the leading position of participation (48%) with Iranian researchers in scientific marine productions. Iranian Journal of Fisheries Sciences allocated the highest number of Iranian marine science output in comparing with other studied journals. Conclusion: The literature and co-authorship factor on the Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf and Oman Sea have grown exponentially during the sutdy period. Manuscript profile
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  4 - Growth Trend and Citation Analysis of the Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman’s Publications in the Web of Science
  Mohammad Bagher Negahban
  Purpose: This study investigatesیthe growth and development trend of scientific productions (articles) by Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman’s faculty members in the citation database of Web of Sciences. The main purpose of this study was to identify and determin More

  Purpose: This study investigatesیthe growth and development trend of scientific productions (articles) by Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman’s faculty members in the citation database of Web of Sciences. The main purpose of this study was to identify and determine the scientific productions of the Shahid Bahonar University’s faculty members.  Methodology: The present study applied scientometric research method to conduct the study. The data were collected form The WoS database and analyzed by EXCEL and SPSS soft wares. The statistical analysis was based on descriptive statistics. First, all records produced by the Shahid Bahonar University’s faculty members during 2000-2011 and indexed by the WoS database were retreived. Then, analytical report for all indices were obtained and was entered into SPSS. For the citation analysis of the records, a citation report was produced for each faculty member and then the citation were saved in personal computer with full text format and finally analized by SPSS. Findings: The average annual growth rate of scientific productions of Shahid Bahonar University during the period of 2000-2011 showed an acceptable growth, especially with its ascending move since 2004, which could significantly improve the ranking of Shahid Bahonar University among other universities of the country. Data analysis showed that the Department of Sciences ranked first as the most productive department; most of documents and productions of which were done in chemistry faculty.  Considering the most prominent researchers of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman in terms of number of documents, number of references and average reference for each document, we could say that fields of chemistry, mechanics and statistics were the scientific production engines of this university. Conclusion: The results of this study showed that Shahid Bahonar University had had 1356 records during the examined years. Also, the average growth rate of this university was 33.6%. Considering the produced documents and received citations, Mohammadali Taher, Iran Sheykh Shoaei and Ahmad Sheykhi occupied the top most places based on productivity measure. Nearly all the documents were published in English. Considering the recruitment of new faculty members and the speed of the Shahid Bahonar University’s scientific production growth, one can say that this university will have a significant growth in terms of number of records in coming Manuscript profile
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  5 - Scientific articles of Iran and Islamic countries of Middle East indexed in Web of Science (WOS) during 2003-2007
  abdalreza noroozi chakoli mohammad hasanzadeh
  Using library method and comparative analysis, this research deals with evaluating and comparing indexed scientific products of Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia based on WoS during the 5 years between 2003 and 2007. The most important objectives of this r More

  Using library method and comparative analysis, this research deals with evaluating and comparing indexed scientific products of Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia based on WoS during the 5 years between 2003 and 2007. The most important objectives of this research include the comparison of articles of each country regarding ‘variety of language’, ‘variety of types of documents’, ‘subject areas’, ‘participant bodies’ and ‘number of articles and their growth rate’. Moreover, evaluation of ideality of performance of articles of these countries on the basis of the mingled indicator of “Average Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in comparison with the Indexed Scientific Products” is another issue discussed in this article. The results show that although Iran is placed between Turkey and Egypt regarding its number of articles in WoS, it is placed after these two countries considering its performance of indexed scientific products in WoS.   Manuscript profile
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  6 - A decade of Islamic Azad University’s scientific productivity in ISI Databases (1999 to 2008)
  afshin moosavi chalak abdalreza Noroozi Chakoli
  Purpose: This study attempts to evaluate the scientific publications of Islamic Azad University of Iran in 1999 to 2008 in some dimensions such as “types of documents”, “languages”, “subject areas”, “sources” and “IS More

  Purpose: This study attempts to evaluate the scientific publications of Islamic Azad University of Iran in 1999 to 2008 in some dimensions such as “types of documents”, “languages”, “subject areas”, “sources” and “ISI Covered Journals”. Methodology: To do this, ‘Documentary’ and ‘Citation Analysis’ methods were used. Also, “comparative” method was used to analyze the data. Findings: The results show that scientific productions of Islamic Azad University in 2004 to 2008 were more than 1999 to 2003 and it has been 905/34 percent growth. Therefore, “types of documents” and “languages” of Islamic Azad University’ scientific productions permanently have been increasing in 1999 to 2008. The university’s share in some subject areas such as “Multidisciplinary Chemistry and other chemistry areas”, “Applied mathematics”, “Pharmacology and Pharmacy”, “Food Science & Technology”, “Veterinary”, “Agricultural Science, Plants and Animals” and “Environmental Sciences” were more than other subject areas in WoS. Also, JCR shows that the university hasn’t been any Journal in the Database. However, there is only one indexed journal from Islamic Azad University, Branch of Tehran Sciences and Research entitled: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. The Journal published 0/52 percent of Indexed Scientific Productions of that university in WoS.     Manuscript profile
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  7 - A study of scientific production in the field of Social psychology in Web of Science (1990-2009): Mapping the historical Structure
  fahimeh abasi Vahide Aslaninia Mohammad Hossein Biglu
  Objective: Social psychology is a branch of psychology and sociology that studies the scientific aspect of various social phenomena as well as the related aspects of social life. This study aims to determine the relationship of a person in a group and how a person's beh More

  Objective: Social psychology is a branch of psychology and sociology that studies the scientific aspect of various social phenomena as well as the related aspects of social life. This study aims to determine the relationship of a person in a group and how a person's behavior, thoughts, and feelings are influenced by group and vice versa. Methodology: With understanding the standing out of scientific activities in the field of social psychology, we can set up a comprehensive representation of scientists and researchers in the field and to identify the strengths and weaknesses of previous investigations. A descriptive-analytical method by using scientometrics indicators was recruited to analyze the productive activity of countries in the field of social psychology during a period of 20 years (1990-2009). We used the trial version of Hist-Cite software to map the historical Structure of Scientific Output in the field of social psychology through the period of study. Findings:  Analysis of data showed that there has been a gently rise in producing scientific production in the field through the period of study. More than 97% of publications were in English. USA, England and Canada were the most prolific countries in the subject area. The University of Michigan، Texas و Calif. Los Angeles were the most productive universities. Conclusion: Mapping the historical Structure of scientific publications in the subject area indicated that there have been formed 3 major clusters in Local Citation Scale (LCS) and 4 major clusters in Global Citation Scale (LCS). Manuscript profile