Book Reviews and Reports

Critique of Research Book (Literature)/ A review on Reports on the Difficulties of Divan Khaghani, by Majid Azizi and Ali Heidari

Review of Reviews/ A Review on Criticism: A Response to “The Review of the Book A Look at Carpet Weaving in Chaharmahal & Bakhtiari Province" by Frank Kabiri

Review of Reviews/ ‘Tis Truth not Imagination: A Response to "Sometimes a Desire for Truth, Sometimes Imagination: A Critique on the Book Kimia, The Child of Mowlana’s Household": Gholamreza Khaki

Validation of the Historical Reports of the Book “Estitār al-Emām” A Source for Rewriting the Political-Cultural History of the Pre-African Ismailis

Abstract In this article, by comparing the historical reports of the book Estirār al-Emām with the reports of non-Ismaili sources, an attempt is made to examine and analyze the validity of this book as a historiographical source in reconstructing the history of the Ismailis before 297 AH. The results show that a critical reference to Ismaili works along with non-Ismaili sources can be an impor...

Can Book Reviews be Used to Evaluate Books' Influence?

Introduction Citation frequency has become a popular index for quality evaluation of academic publications, e.g. articles, journals or books. Traditional altmetrics researches pay less attention to book-level evaluation, and they do not make use of content information. In this paper, we present a novel method, reviewmetrics, namely altmetrics to evaluate academic books based on reviews. We comb...