CASPIAN JOURNAL OF SCIENTOMETRICS
Year:2016 | Volume:2 | Issue:2 |Papers Count:7

Background and aim: Nowadays, the websites have the important role in transferring and delivery the information. The aim of this study was to assess the websites of Northern Universities of Medical Sciences based on Webometrics criteria.Material and methods: This descriptive-survey study is applicable type. The present study was performed using one of the Webometrics methods, Linkage analysis method, and finally determined through the coordination of citations in Google Scholar as well as the amount of visibility and size of Medical universities website of the Northern region of the country.Findings: Findings indicated that based on Webometrics database, Babol, Guilan, Golestan and Mazandaran Universities of Medical Sciences obtained the highest rank in presence index (1701), impact index (5083), free information delivery index (1234) and academic excellence indicator (2169), respectively.Conclusion: We conclude that although the website of Northern Universities of Medical Sciences has got a positive growth in some indices of Webometrics in recent years, these universities’ status generally has not been acceptable at National and International levels. Increasing English pages, increasing link to these universities’ websites and the attention of the managers and those involved are necessary and inevitable to promote these universities’ websites.

Background and aim: Scientific journals can be considered as a symbol of scientific life of every science such as Human Sciences. According to the current state of the country, paying special attention to economic issues, especially the resistive economy among journals related to human sciences indicates direct or indirect interest in the subject. The aim of this study was to assess the publication of articles regarding resistive economy among Human Sciences Journals.Material and methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on all Persian Human Sciences Journals using scientometric method during two years (2012-2013). Titles, abstracts and keywords of all articles were reviewed in terms of words such as economy, Islamic economy and resistive economy. The data were collected by means of a tailor-made data collection sheet and were analyzed using descriptive statistics and chi-square test (χ2).Findings: The outcome extracted from 21353 articles of 486 journals published by Universities, faculties and research institutes (during 2012-2013) showed that the mentioned words were used in 703 scientific works (in 3.29% of articles). Twenty nine (nearly 0.1%) and 10 (0.04%) scientific works were related to Islamic economy and resistive economy, respectively. Journals of economics had the highest percent of related articles regarding economy and Islamic economy, and journals of politics had the highest percentage of articles about resistive economy.Conclusion: According to the importance of scientific explanation of resistive economy in the current state of our country, the more role-playing of human sciences specialists, especially "economics' scientists" is necessary. Thus paying attention to encourage the lecturers and students to study and research on policies and purposes of resistive economy is strongly recommended.

Background and aim: Nowadays, social networks are the most important means of communication in the societies as well as in the world and they have a great reputation, so the use of virtual social networks among students is very essential. The aim of this study was to evaluate the reasons and motives of virtual social networks among students in Gonabad University of Medical Sciences.Material and methods: In this descriptive study, 277 students were randomly chosen from Gonabad University of Medical Sciences. They completed a reasercher-made questionnaire which its validity and reliability were obtained in earlier studies. Then the data were analyzed using SPSS software version 20.Findings: The findings showed that 52% of students were members of these social networks. Their main motive and reason for joining these networks were to communicate with previous and current friends and to have fun.Conclusion: More than half of the students are members of social networks. Students are not familiar with all of the effects of these social networks since they are recently emerged so performing more research on other aspects of their impact on the life and health of students is necessary.

Background and aim: Survey relation between h-index and self-citation and also their relation with another scientific performance evaluation indicators is important because when hirsch introduced it's index, has been considered self-citation too. Therefore this study survey effect of self-citation on quantitative and qualitative indicators of measuring the research output of faculty members in Isfahan University of medical sciences.Material and methods: Research method is an analytical method conducted by using citation analysis technique. This study Population was scientific production of Isfahan University of medical science faculty member with h-index indicator (401 person) between 1996- 2013. Number of document, citation, number of citation without self-citation, h-index with and without self-citation and number of collaborators for each author was extracted from Scopus database. For data analyzing used descriptive and inferential statistics (Pearson test) and SPSS 18.Findings: Based on research finding, cardiovascular research center had high mean in productivity indicator (45), number of citation (424.33) and h-index indicator (9.33). In self-citation index, health school and management and medical information was appropriated high (24.44) and lower (0.66) rate of self-citation respectively. There was significant relation between total number of citation and self-citations, author received citation number and collaboration with other author, author self-citation number and collaboration with other, h-index and author self-citation and also author self-citation and productivity.Conclusion: In this study, between self-citation and total quantitative and qualitative indicators in measure scientific production there was significant relation. Therefore, this task needs solutions that can decrease effect of self-citation on research performance evaluation indicators of scientific parameters production.

Background and aim: One of the important ways to assess the status of utilizing sources used by students in writing dissertations, is citation analysis. The aim of this study was to evaluate rate of using information resources in Mazandaran and Shomal Universities by MA students majoring in physical education and compare two universities.Material and methods: The citation analysis method was used in this study and the population was 11814 counts of citations which were extracted from the sources and references of 123 master's dissertations at University of Mazandaran (63 copies) and University of Shomal (60 copies). Data were analyzed using SPSS software and Excel.Findings: The results showed that the rate of citation to Latin sources was more than it to Persian sources in both universities. The rate of citation to Latin sources was higher in Mazandaran University (%81.26) than Shomal University (%50.15). The percentage of students' citation to articles in the University of Mazandaran (73.36%) and University of Shomal (51.37%) was higher than it to other sources. The t-test results indicated that there was a significant difference between two Universities in terms of the rate of citation to Latin and Persian sources, dissertations and articles.Conclusion: The findings showed that students used different information-seeking patterns to write thesis. So, it was concluded that the academic orientation, college facilities and access to various sources had effect on how to write the citation.

Background and aim: The importance of studying in the development of the societies is quite clear and the faculties at the universities are supposed to try more in this area compared with ordinary people. The aim of this study was to determine the study culture in Shiraz University’s faculty members. Material and methods: This descriptive - analytical study was conducted on 603 faculty members of Shiraz University among whom 262 persons were randomly selected using questionnaires and the average of faculty members' study was based on the hours per week. For data analysis, one-way ANOVA and independent t-test were used.Findings: According to the research findings, the faculty members of Science College and Social Science College got the highest and lowest quantity in specialized studying with the average of 35.29 and 12.33, respectively. In non – specialized studying, faculty members of Agriculture College and Social Science College got the highest and the lowest quantity with the average of 10.10 and 2.33, respectively. The findings of the present study revealed that non- specialized studying quantity was significantly higher in men than women (p<0.001, t=-3.68).Conclusion: The most important factor in reducing the amount of specialized and non-specialized studies of faculty members was individual problems and spending much time on teaching, respectively.

Background and aim: Altmetrics seeks to assess the scientific impact with new ways using data derived from the social Web. The aim of this paper aims to represent the concept, benefits, disadvantages and challenges of Altmetrics.Material and methods: This review article was conducted using the related literature.Findings: Unlike to the traditional evaluation methods which are done based on three filters ‘peer review’, ‘number of citations’, and ‘impact factors’, are time-consuming and can not to assess all the scientific productions, altmetrics evaluates the scientific productions, researchers' popularity and scientific cooperation in web and social networks using faster, broader, and more different metrics. However, altmetrics encounters to criticism and challenges such as the changing nature of web, lack of theory, and ease of scientific trick.Conclusion: Impact is a multi-dimensional concept and traditional citation methods cannot measure all aspects of the impact. Therefore, it is necessary to use altmetrics and on the other hand, considering the criticisms against altmetrics and doing more research to remove them, the advantages of altmetrics can be used as metrics to complete the traditional metrics.