Scientometrics Research Journal
Year:2016 | Volume:1 | Issue:2 (2)|Papers Count:6

Purpose: Understanding the economic situation and its relations with other social dimensions always is important. Studies show that countries are placed in different positions based on their economic and also science and technology situations. The main aim of this research is to analyze the links between economic power indicators and science and technology indicators of some countries.Methodology: This research is a scientometrics study and it includs 38 countries with H-Index 100 ore more between 1996 and 2010 in SciMago. These countries were categorized and studied in 3 different clusters. The data gathered from WoS, SciMago, UNESCO, OECD and World Bank databases. Excel and SPSS were used to analyze the data. Also, the research questions and hypothesis were responded through Pierson Correlation Test.Findings: The findings show that there is positive correlation between two batches of economic power indicators and science and technology indicators. Also, there is straight relation between value of investing in science and technology and the level of development of sciences. The countries with suitable economic power are placed in a better situation in terms of science and technology.Conclusion: There is significant relationship between economic power and science and technology situation of the countries, based on statistical tests on the economic power and science & Technology indicators. In the other words, the countries that spent more fundings on the economic power indicators, have had more growth in their science and technology situations.

Purpose: The present research was performed for exploring of scientific outputs of Shahed University medical sciences faculty members in Scopus citation database (2000-2011).Methodology: Documentary and survey research methods a approach scientometrics were used. Findings were analyzed by descriptive statistics and Microsoft Excel software.Findings: The results showed that only 32 persons (24%) of research population had indexed scientific documents in Scopus. Despite that general growth trend of scientific outputs is ascending, this trend isn’t regular and even in some years is descending. From the entire 279 indexed scientific outputs, 276 items are related to Faculty of Medicine, 7 items are of Faculty of Dentistry and 5 items are of Faculty of Nursing. "Journal article" is the most indexed document type. Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry and Faculty of Nursing have had the most citations and H-Index respectively, but nursing faculty had the best performance in "citation per document" index. The subject area of "Medicine" (41.83%) had the highest share in the scientific outputs and the subject areas of "Dentistry" & "Nursing" (1.12% & 0.22%) had the least share. The outputs with 3, 4 and 5 authors had the highest share respectively. The highest scientific collaboration rate of research society was with Iranian especially Shahed University researchers. Among foreign researchers, Canadians had the highest share of scientific collaboration and among domestic researchers those at Tehran University of Medical Sciences had the most share of scientific collaboration with research society.Conclusion: Scientific outputs of the members of the medical sciences faculties members of Shahed University and their scientific collaboration have had an ascending trend.

Purpose: The goal of this study is to evaluate Iranian state university websites using WAI.Methodology: This study is a descriptive and Delphi survey. The research sample consists of 100 Iranian state university websites. Data collection was done by checklists prepared in the WAI.Findings: Assessment of the websites with five main criteria in WAI (accessibility, speed, navigation, reliability, content) showed that navigation was in “Good” condition with top of score of 72 out of 100. Content was in “Good” condition with score of 71 out of 100. Speed was in “Good” condition with score of 70 out of 100. Reliability was in “Middle” condition with score of 59 out of 100, usability was in “Inappropriate” condition with score of 39 out of 100.Findings showed that 64 percent of websites were in “Good” condition, and 30 percent were in “Middle” condition.Conclusion: the evaluation reults showed that the Web sites of Iranian public universities have a acceptable situation.

Purpose: Many Experts in various fieldes, count citation analysis as a research tool, but since citation analysis has some of the important characteristics of research methods, is a kind of research method. By the way, This paper is try to describing the place of citation analysis as a research method, assign quntitative and qualitative and pathology of the validity of this method.Methodology: This study has been done by documentary method and survey in related texts to gather relevant information.Findings: Citation analysis has some of the important characteristics such as Describing phenomena objectively, Having Ideas, Indicating the relationship between the phenomenon and use of tools, and as well as other method, it sufers from some threats like: Do not pay attention biases in sampling data, ignoring the self-citation of sientists in the country, portion of Review Articles, The low of publication distance, Do not Consider methods of citation counting, Lack of Attention to variety of subject Areas and ignore the differences between interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research assessment.Conclusion: Citatin Analysis can be a research method for researchers in various fields and especially for knowledge and information science researchers' and it could be categorized in mixed method.

Purpose: Similar to citation databases, social networks can be used to measure document and article use, therefore, the aim of this research is to investigate the social media or networks as tools for evaluation of scholars.Methodology: The Altmetrics method _ measures based on social media or network_ was used for the survey. A sample of 309 facultly members affiliated to the University of Tehran were surveyed in order to find their publications on Scopus and their social records on bookmarking websites of CiteULike, Bibsonomy and Mendeley. The data were analyzed using Excel and SPSS software.Findings: Research findings demonstrated that there is significant correlation between citations and social bookmark records of Iranian scholars' publication. The highest correlation is between Mendeley and Scopus at ρ=0.80. The correlation between CiteULike and Scopus is low (r=0.439) while that for Bibsonomy is very low (ρ=.0241).Conclusion: Results show that Mendeley can be used as alternative or complementary tool for evaluation of the scholars.

Purpose: This study deals with the visibility and influence rate of different links in Iranian virtual universities websites.Methodology: This is an applied Scientometrics study. The community research is consisted of websites of 21 non medical universities websites and 8 websites of Iranian medical universities. The websites have been retrieved by the use of searching and Google Webometics tools and were downloaded on personal computers to analyze their links.Findings: The study results show that websites of virtual universities of Tehran with 74970 points, Sistan and Baluchistan with 48048 points and Olum Hadis with 43097 points are ranked from first to third. Also websites of virtual university of Qom with 28 points has ranked the last.Conclusion: The study revealed that Iranian universities have not a considerable appearance on the Web. This is due to the lack of English pages on their Web sites as well as being new institutions.