Qualified and healthy lifestyle consists of extensivebroad dimensions of physical health, resistance againstdiseases, fast recovery following disease, better socialcommunications, flexibility in facing social problems,better education, better interactions, stress management,transcendental individual and social behavior, as well asmorality. A variety of the contemporary academic studiesand scien...

The present paper examines aspects of how students are incorporated in the community of mature scientists. Our goal is to illustrate how graduate students learn to distinguish correct procedures from incorrect procedures following two, sometimes contradictory, curricula: the explicit discourse of mathematics and physics on one hand, and a hidden curriculum learned during their enculturation (wh...

Social networks are dynamic social structures consisting of individuals or organizations, usually represented by nodes tied by one or more relationship type. Analyzing these structures enables us to detect several inter and intra connections between people in and outside their organizations. In this context, we construct a multi-relational scientific social network where researchers may have fo...

On the other hand, to justify any profession as scientific, there is a need for such laws or fundamentals, besides a recognized body of knowledge. This calls for a controversial question “Are social sciences scientific?” Most of the popular literature on social sciences research have either grossly underrepresented the laws of social world or have totally ignored the mention of such laws. Somet...

The gender gap in science has been the focus of many analyses which have, for the most part, documented lower research productivity and citation impact for papers authored by female researchers. Given the rise of scholarly use of social media to disseminate scientific production and the healthy proportion of women on these sites, further investigation of potential gender disparities in social m...

This paper divides the typical social scientific research process into two stages: the research development stage and the research innovation stage, with personnel as a shared input between them. We construct an input-shared multi-period two-stage DEA (data envelopment analysis) model as measurement of sustainability capacities of social scientific research, and then measure both the overall ef...

Communication flow of scientific information has been restructured with the development of new technologies and the Internet and their impact on social relations worldwide. The production of scientific knowledge has also been influenced by these cultural, social and economic changes and has contributed to new patterns of scientific communication. The objective of the study was to present the tr...

this article aimed in investigation of critical factors affecting publication of scientific papers among iranian women researchers 1993 to 2009. the research conducted employing document study and survey methodologies. the wos database of thompson scientific (formerly isi) was employed to identify iranian women researchers and their attitude towards critical factors was collected by researcher-...