BACKGROUND Author self-citation is the practice of citing one's previous publications in a new publication. Its extent is unknown. We studied author self-citation, choosing the major clinical field of diabetes mellitus to represent the general medical literature. METHODS We identified every article about diabetes mellitus in 170 hand-searched clinical journals published in 2000. For every art...

In many scientific-publication digital libraries (DLs) such as CiteSeer, arXiv e-Print, DBLP, or Google Scholar, “citations” play an important role. (The term “citation” refers to the collection of bibliographic information such as author name, title, publication venue, or year that are pertinent to a particular article.) Users often use citations to find information of interest in DLs, and res...

this study mainly aims to compare the quantity of iranian publications and their citation impact in the two popular citation databases, scopus and web of science. the documents which specified iran as their affiliated country published during 1998-2007 were selected as iran’s publications in the two databases. during the examined years, iran has published 49198 documents in scopus and 35061 doc...

BACKGROUND A recent review of frameworks used in dissemination and implementation (D&I) science described 61 judged to be related either to dissemination, implementation, or both. The current use of these frameworks and their contributions to D&I science more broadly has yet to be reviewed. For these reasons, our objective was to determine the role of these frameworks in the development of D&I ...

This study is a bibliometric analysis of a highly complex research discipline, namely geography, in order to identify the most used and cited publication channels, to reveal publication strategies, and to analyse the discipline’s coverage in the three main data sources for citation analyses: Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar. The results show very heterogeneous and individual publicatio...

background: the number of scientific publication by a country is an important indication of its science generation and development. the aim of this study was to compare the publications in medical sciences of islamic countries from 2002-2009 with those of a number of developed countries.   methods: the pubmed and cia world fact book were used to extract the number of publications and socioecono...

Erratum An error occurred during the publication of a number of articles in BMC Public Health. These articles were erroneously published in volume number 18, which is listed with a publication date of 2018. However, these articles were published in final form in the year 2017. Provided below are the actual publication dates and the correct citation for each affected article. Please note that th...

This paper quantifies to which extent preprints in arXiv accelerate scholarly communication. The following subject fields were investigated up to the year 2012: High Energy Physics (HEP), Mathematics, Astrophysics, Quantitative Biology, and Library and Information Science (LIS). Publication and citation data was downloaded from Scopus and matched with corresponding preprints in arXiv. Furthermo...