CASPIAN JOURNAL OF SCIENTOMETRICS
Year:2015 | Volume:2 | Issue:1 |Papers Count:7

Background and aim: The satisfaction of users is the dynamic and main purpose of each organization. This study aimed at determining the level of clients' satisfaction of library services in Medical Sciences University of Babol.Material and methods: This analytical and survey study was conducted on 245 users who referred to the libraries of Medical Sciences University of Babol and they were regularly and randomly selected. The data were collected and analyzed by using a researcher-made questionnaire and T-test and ANOVA at a significance level of 0.05, respectively.Findings: The mean of total scores of users' satisfaction of library services was 3.77±0.66 which was significantly higher than average in Medical Sciences University of Babol (Sig<0.05). Amirkola library with an average of 54.0±48.4 and Zahravi library with an average of 54/0 ± 48/4 among 8 libraries had the highest and lowest satisfaction, respectively. The highest (4.35) and lowest (3.10) level of satisfaction belonged to human and library equipment, respectively, too. The results of ANOVA indicated that the average of users' satisfaction had significant difference (Sig<0.05) with each other in different aspects of all studied libraries.Conclusion: The clients' satisfaction of library services in Medical Sciences University of Babol was higher than average in all aspects.

Background and aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the condition of Iranian marine scientific outputs related to Persian Gulf and Oman Sea in Web of Science (WoS) during 1992-2013.Material and methods: Totally, 396 scientific documents were recognized in WoS with the limitations of time and place in the current study. Citation analysis techniques and HistCite software were used to analyze and depict the historiographical map of scientific texts.Findings: Findings indicated that all 396 documents written by 1036 authors affiliated to 313 organizations were published in 199 journals with 6 different formats in English language. Most documents were published by Iranian Journal of Fisheries Sciences. In addition, the growth rate of annual outputs was %59 and the collaboration coefficient was 0.68 among Iranian researchers. Generally, 5 and 6 thematic clusters have been formed in historiographical map based on the TGCS and TLCS, respectively.Conclusion: The results showed that the rate of the growth of scientific outputs on the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea basins have increased from one title in 1993 to 80 titles in 2013. The effect of heavy metals on sediment and marine livings, coral reefs and identification of aquatic species are the most important subjects of historiographical map clusters.

Background and aim: Co-authorship networks of scientists exhibit a pattern of developing and complicated networks. The aim of the present study was to analyze the power structure in co-authorship networks of Iranian medical science researchers based on centrality measures.Material and methods: Social network analysis was used as the research method. The research population was all those researchers who have published articles in one of the seven journals of Iranian medical sciences indexed by ISI. Data were collected in two phases, first electronically access to the articles and second using a questioner to gather opinions of authors with centrality roles. Pearson correlation and regression were used to analyze the data.Findings: The research finding showed that a significant correlation existed between centrality scores and productivity at P=0.001. The findings from variance regression analysis revealed that researchers’ productivity variable was determined by factors such as degree, eigenvector and beta centrality. Most important criteria for selecting research teams from opinions of researcher with high centrality Scores are: the same proficiency, having dominant teams, having a necessary knowledge, political, cultural and scientific acceptance.Conclusion: The results showed that co-authorship networks of Iranian medical journals had a low centrality and few connections existed among authors. In addition, authors with high centrality scores have a quick access to other authors and resources and they regarded as powerful authors.

Background and aim: Although recent researches have declared the science growth rate and position improvement of Iran in the region of Middle East and Islamic countries, the quality of the science is still lost ring. Due to the lack of study on science quality, the aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the quantity and quality of the science production of Iran vs. Turkey and Malaysia.Material and methods: In this library-based research, the indices of each country (number of documents, number of citations, mean of citations and Hirsch index) were extracted from SCIMago database.Findings: Based on the cumulative number of documents and citations, Turkey, Iran and Malaysia are in the first, second and third places, respectively. Iran has been in the first place based on the number of scientific productions and mean of yearly growth rate from 2011. Based on H-index and the number of journals indexed in Scopus, Turkey has been in the first place, Iran and Malaysia have been in the second and third places. Iran, Turkey and Malaysia have been in the first, second and third places, respectively based on Scientific Journal Rankings (SJR).Conclusion: Although the quantity of Iranian science production and its rate are considerable, this amount is not desirable due to the population. Study the Indices of quality determination shows the growth of Iranian production and scientific journals quality versus Turkey.

Background and aim: Now days, university-industry relation is one of the main factors in development. Therefore, because of its importance, the aim of this study was to analyze the relation between university and industry comparatively in Iran and Turkey.Material and methods: This scientometric study was conducted using citation analysis method and assessment technique. Sample population of this study was all of patents and scientific articles related to Iran and Turkey based on Us-patent and Scopus database. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statics (frequency and percent) and Inferential Tests (Pearson correlation), excel software and SPSS.Findings: The results of the present study showed that Iran and Turkey had 151159, 258719 scientific articles and 143, 584 patents in Scopus and US-patent database, respectively. In addition, Iran had the highest scientific productions were in technology based on the priorities of A to C and the lowest scientific productions with 5717 was related to the humanities and art field. In the case of patent, the most of it was associated with basic and applied science. Based on priorities, Turkey had the lowest production in the field of tourism and transport and the most production in the health and medicine field.Conclusion: After more than two decades of the establishment of the Office of the relationship between industry and university in the country, the proper interaction between the two organizations in achieving the desired level in science and technology has not been established. Therefore, studying the needs of each of two organizations by government and determination of logical way to improve the quality of their products and planning at macro-level are necessary to improve this relationship.

Background and aim: Journal Citation Report (JCR) is the oldest and most important database of Journal's assessment. The aim of this study was to determine the IF ranked in JCR database compare to the SJR ranked in SCImago database during a three-year period from 2012 to 2014.Material and methods: This comparative cross-sectional study was conducted on 38 Library and Information Science journals using scientometric method and the data were collected from Thomson Reuters and Scopus databases.Findings: According to the findings, there was a positive correlation between the values of IF and SJR in Library and Information Science journals indexed in Scopus and Thompson Reuters databases. In addition, there was a positive relationship between the ranking of these journals indexed in JCR and Scopus (P<0.05).Conclusion: The result showed that it is necessary to use both of these ranking systems such as Scimago and SJR by the researchers of the field of Library and Information Science.

Background and aim: Small World is one of the existing theories in the social network analysis (SNA), which consists of clusters with local robust connections and a few global connections and shortens the distance between both two nodes of network. The aim of this study was to investigate the small world theory in co-authorship network of Iranian medicine.Material and methods: This study was conducted using Bibliometrics and SNA methods. Medicine word was surfed in WoS database only on Iran during 2009-2013 years. Finally, the status of this word was analyzed in terms of accordance to small world theory by drawing the co-authorship map.Findings: The results showed that more than half of researchers in this filed had communicated with each other and shaped a component in which the path length was 6.89 and the clustering coefficient was 0.85 and the index of Small World was 169.79, too.Conclusion: The relatively short length of path, high coefficient of clustering and also comparing the index of Small World with other researches indicates that there is a Small World.