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  1 - Identification of Tehran University graduate students familiarity with Google Scholar Database
  Marzieh Atashkar Mehdi Alipour Hafezi Yaghoub Norouzi
  Purpose: The main purpose of this research was to identify the rate of familiarity of Tehran University graduate students from Google Scholar database. Methodology: This research is applied one that has done through analytical survey research method. Researcher made que More

  Purpose: The main purpose of this research was to identify the rate of familiarity of Tehran University graduate students from Google Scholar database. Methodology: This research is applied one that has done through analytical survey research method. Researcher made questionnaire is used for data gathering. All of Tehran university graduate students form research community  are included in this study. Sampling method is used to determine the sample group, due to the high number of students. Findings: Findings showed that the majority of students are aware of being free of Google Scholar search engine. However, the majority of graduate students at Tehran University are much less familiar with the advantages and disadvantages of various Google Scholar services. Overall, it was concluded that the level of familiarity of graduate students at Tehran University with Google scholar services was low. Results: This research is the first one that concentrated on the level of familiarity of graduate students at Tehran University with Google Scholar database. Manuscript profile
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  2 - Evaluation of faculty members Research performance at Bushehr University of Medical Sciences in Google Scholar during 2009-2013
  Khadijeh Shabankareh Mitra Baghjannati Ali Hamidi
  Purpose: Considering the importance of scientific production in the ranking of universities and evaluation of faculty members as researchers who have most contribution in the scientific productions of universities, the present study examined the research performance of More

  Purpose: Considering the importance of scientific production in the ranking of universities and evaluation of faculty members as researchers who have most contribution in the scientific productions of universities, the present study examined the research performance of faculty members’ Bushehr University of Medical Sciences in Google Scholar in terms of quantity and quality. Methodology: This research is descriptive survey was conducted using citation analysis. The study sample is scientific outputs of all faculty members working at Bushehr University of Medical Sciences in 2014 (including 160), which is indexed in Google Scholar. Data were collected using publish or perish, a citation analysis software. Data were analyzed using Microsoft Excel and descriptive indicators. Findings: The finding of this study showed that, 37/26% of the study population did not have any scientific Documents in Google Scholar and most of them (59/37%) had less than 20 Documents. Averaging 4/73 Documents for each of researcher was indexed in Google Scholar, and each person had received an average of 19/33 citation. The average number of citations per Document was also 1/83. Hirsch index average was equal to 1/45 and G-index was 1/2. Hirsch index and G-index were equal to zero for 48/12% of the study population. Conclusion: The present study indicates that the total number of documents, the total number of citations and Hirsh and G-index for the most researchers in this study are low. Low experience of the most researchers, language barriers and low international access to Persian documents are major reasons for this. Manuscript profile