A rapid progress has been made in all branches of science and technology over the past two decades. This study evaluates the SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT of Iran in this period.Methods: The data used in this article have been extracted from ISI-Thomsonâ database using Rose-net information network on the Internet. Science production in Iran has been reviewed from 1970 to 2002 and compared with 15 other countries.Results: Science OUTPUT in Iran had a rising trend from 1970 to 1980; however, it declined and then remained steady as the Iraqi war was imposed on Iran, until it gained a sharp rising trend again some years after the war. A comparison of Iran with other 15 countries until the year 2000 shows that these 16 countries in total have 69.2% of the science OUTPUT of the world in ISI. The United States, Britain and Germany stand atop the list with 33.2, 7.8 and 7 percent, respectively, and Iran with 0.12% stands on thirteenth place among these 16 countries. China, India, and South Korea maintain a considerable difference and a relatively higher position in terms of SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT as compared with Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, Kuwait and Iraq. Iran is ahead of Pakistan, Kuwait and Iraq, which produce a cumulative 0.16% of the science among these 16 countries. Comparing the ratio of science OUTPUT to GNP, Iran stands on thirteenth place among 16 countries in the year 2000.Conclusion: Iran has had a considerable growth in presenting articles after the Iraq-Iran war, which marks the period of stability and development.

Purpose: Food security is a critical global challenge that is influenced by research and innovation in the field. Therefore, the objective of this study is to analyze the SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT of developing countries in food security and examine its relationship with patents and Gross Domestic Product (GDP).Methodology: This applied research utilized the Scientometric approach. A total of 8,416 papers published between 1992-2023 in the field of food security by developing countries were included in the study using citation databases from Clarivate Analytics. Additionally, patent registrations from the WIPO database and GDP data from the World Bank were analyzed. Information was collected through note-taking, and the data was analyzed using Pearson's correlation coefficient.Findings: The findings reveal an upward trend in the publication and citation of SCIENTIFIC OUTPUTs related to food security in developing countries. China has higher numbers of papers, patents, GDP, and food production index compared to Iran, Japan, and South Korea. There is also a positive correlation observed between population and the number of papers, gross production and the number of papers, food production and the number of published papers, as well as the number of patents and papers citing SCIENTIFIC OUTPUTs of countries.Conclusion: These results highlight the significant relationship between increasing SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT, GDP, the number of patents, and food security. Greater emphasis on food security contributes to enhanced SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT, GDP, and innovation. Similarly, increasing SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT, GDP, and innovation positively impact food security in countries.Value: This study emphasizes the importance of SCIENTIFIC OUTPUTs in driving technological advancements, innovations, and ultimately, ensuring food security in developing countries.

This paper aimed to study SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT of Iranian authors in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology according to Science Citation Index (SCT) between 1995 and 2009. The most frequently cited and linked influential authors, their co-operation coefficient (CC), the most cited influential journals, publication ratio, SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT, language and form of publications, and the countries cooperating with Iranian researchers were reported. Historiography map of Iran Nanoscience and Nanotechnology was also illustrated. It was shown that during the studied period, Iranian authors published 959 documents in 5 different forms in 111 journals with the ratio of 71%. Authors from 31 countries have cooperated with their Iranian colleagues among which Canada, England and Germany ranked first to third respectively, with the CC equal to 0.448. Clusters shaped included 5 subjects: photochemical methods to control Nano particle sizes, alternative quantum point analysis of metals, different features and indicators of nano-tube, calculation of nano-tube indicators, and nano-tube composition.

Background and Aim: In recent years, social media metrics have been introduced as an alternative of the traditional bibliometric indicators for research evaluation and SCIENTIFIC impact.This research aims to investigate the presence and attentions received by SCIENTIFIC OUTPUTs of Iran in social media.Methods: The current study is an applied research, which conducted using altmetric and scientometric indicators. A total of 43076 documents which listed Iran as their affiliated country and indexed by Scopus in 2015, were selected as the population of the study.Results: Results of the study showed relatively low altmetric coverage for SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT of Iran, with only 5840 documents (13.55%) were mentioned at least once in social media.platforms. These documents have received 28517 mentions in 14 sources of attention, of which Mendeley makes up the highest share (87%), followed by Twitter (77.91%) and Facebook (17.87%). Studying the temporal trend of mentions showed that the highest share of attentions received mainly soon after publishing and then tended to demonstrate a decreasing trend. Almost half of the publications (49.24%) with altmetric score were published in medical sciences area. Moreover, SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT published through international research collaboration showed higher altmetric scores compared with the mean altmetric score of the country.Conclusion: Iranian researchers need to know more about the potential and advantages of social media tools in dissemination of scholarly OUTPUT and evaluation of research impact.

The present study aims to examine and understand the sociological factors involved in SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT Esfahan University’s SCIENTIFIC community in an exact and SCIENTIFIC way.The study starts with the investigation of different approaches used in the study of SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT and is followed by the identification of the factors which are involved in SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT. At this stage, the researcher approaches the issue from the standpoint of a number of theorists in the field of SCIENTIFIC community such as Randall Collins, Hagstrom, Kuhn, Latour and Woolgar.This study is designed as a survey and gathered through quota sampling. The statistical population is comprised of all the full time academic members, PhD candidates and second year MA students who were present at Esfahan University in the academic year 2009-2010 and yields a total of 2,865 individuals altogether. Amongst the population, a sample of 340 individuals was selected as the actual participants of the study.The following are the most important results obtained from the present study:- of the different departments, the Department of Basic sciences showed the highest amount of SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT which is in sharp contrast to the results obtained from the Technical and Engineering Department showing the lowest amount of SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT.-The variables, “interactions and relations”, “emotional energy”, and “epistemic consensus” also indicate a positive and meaningful relationship with SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT.-In the regression model, however, the variable “symbolic attention space” showed no meaningful effect on SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT and was eliminated from the equation.

The broad financial research and unusual phenomena and exceptions in the stock market and investment decision making that common models in modern investment theories failed to represent them, was caused researchers is led to behavioral theories.Technical analyses as a method to analyze stock which was arised by Dow pays attention to the trend of prices to decision making and investing and has offered a key and practical solution to evaluation and to gain returns in short term, however for a weakness in SCIENTIFIC base, it doesn’t have an academic fundament. In the late past decade the new branch of finance that is a composition of psychological and social theories with finance theories has been born and could be a new base for the technical analyses. In this paper some behavioral finance theories which is related to assumptions of the technical analyses, like Prospect Theory, Accessibility, Salience Loss Aversion and Regret theory, is suggested and analyzed and on this base, the paper present a behavioral modeling framework which examines the existence of unusual noisy investors in Tehran Exchange Stock. The existence such a noise in the market is caused that behavioral modeling would be proper case to analyze stock and to predict the trend of market prices. The results show evidence from existence of predictable trends related to behavioral finance in Tehran Exchange Stock that can prove the appropriate prediction behavioral models in the market and presents a sound defensible base to technical analyses in Iranian stock market.

Objectives: This study aimed to draw a SCIENTIFIC map and analyze the clusters of research published in the field of marketing application to libraries and information centers using documents indexed in the Web of Science. Methods: The study is applied research in terms of the purpose and scientometrics descriptive in terms of type. A total of 431 documents in the field of marketing application to libraries and information centers were extracted and reviewed. In addition to Excel software, scientometric software such as VosViewer and UCINet were used to analyze the data. Results: The results showed that some keywords had the highest frequency in terms of co-wording in the following order: marketing (24), marketing to library (18), librarianship (14), and social media (13), respectively. Also, the analysis of keyword clusters showed that the area of marketing to libraries and information centers consists of 7 clusters, and the most important cluster is related to the second cluster which includes the number two cluster with the keywords Bangladesh, information resources, information services, marketing, marketing mix, marketing strategy, public libraries, strategic marketing, University, websites, the World Wide Web which among them, the keywords marketing and information services are the most important keywords in this cluster. The findings also showed that the third cluster consists of 10 keywords and is mainly related to marketing to libraries and shows that the emergence of marketing in libraries and its use in marketing is one of the most important topics for researchers in this field. In the fourth cluster, 8 keywords mainly deal with marketing through social networks. Conclusions: It is inferred that drawing and analyzing a marketing map to libraries reveals approaches and issues that have so far been neglected. Therefore, it is expected for researchers to pay more attention to the gaps in the field of marketing to libraries which have not been paid as much attention as they should, especially in topics such as marketing in academic libraries, marketing in public libraries, digital marketing, and marketing through social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Researchers are expected to be aware of the thematic gaps in the field and to conduct research on the issues raised.

Background and Objectives: Nahjul-Balagha, after Quran, is an important reference for humanity and a book of guidance that carries useful messages about health. The present study aimed at measuring the utilization rate of this book in the SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT of medical sciences.Materials & Methods: The current cross-sectional study has been conducted on a portion of medical science’s SCIENTIFIC OUTPUTs (medical and dental dissertations as well as journals and articles in the field of medical sciences) and a 16-year interval of conferences on environmental health. Data was collected with citation analysis technique and using a researcher-made checklist. Descriptive and inferential statistical indicators were used for data analysis. In this study, all relevant ethical issues were considered.Results: A survey on 20, 776 references from 511 dissertations has shown that Nahjul-Balagha was not used in any of them. In addition, findings of 19, 069 references used in 876 published SCIENTIFIC articles in Persian journal of Babol University of Medical Sciences have showed that, the utilization rate of Nahjul-Balagha was 2 times over a 22-year interval. The abstract of only 1 article had been attached to Nahjul-Balagha issue in a 16-year interval of survey on 2928 articles presented in environmental health conferences.Conclusion: Though the important role of religious recommendations and especially useful written advice in Nahjul-Balagha on health, the utilization rate of this valuable book among articles of medical sciences, is rare.

Scientometrics indicators are used to assess scientists, universities, and research institutes for SCIENTIFIC policy-making. The aim of this research was to assess the status of top Iranian medical researchers using scientometric indicators. The study was carried out using scientometric methods. The statistical population included the top 500 Iranian researchers in the field of medicine who were ranked in the Iranian Scientometric Information Database (ISID) based on some scientometric indicators. The data were analyzed using SPSS 22 software and Pearson's correlation coefficient, stepwise regression analysis, and Chi-square tests were applied for data analysis. Findings revealed that each researcher had an average h index of 24.04, g index of 40.15, and i10 index of 90.79. There was a positive significant relationship between the number of internationally-collaborated papers and the number of citations received (r = .606, p<.01). The stepwise multiple regression analysis showed that the three variables of paper number, citation counts and mean citation rate determined 72% of the changes in the h-index. It can be concluded that researchers publishing more papers are more likely to be cited. However, their scientometric indexes are not always better than those of other scientists.