This paper proposes an indicator of journals' scientific prestige, the SJR indicator, for ranking scholarly journals based on citation weighting schemes and eigenvector centrality to be used in complex and heterogeneous citation networks such Scopus. Its computation methodology is described and the results after implementing the indicator over Scopus 2007 dataset are compared to an ad-hoc Journ...

background: pasteur institute of iran was established in 1919 with the aim to produce vaccines and prevent communicable diseases in iran. over time, their activities extended into areas of research, education and services. naturally, such a vast development begs establishment of a comprehensive management and monitoring system. with this outlook, the present study was carried out with the aim t...

background and objectives: the reliability of hospital assessment results depends on the appropriateness of the indicators used. in this study, we systematically review the literature to identify the major indicators of hospital performance evaluation, as employed in performance assessment literature.methods: literature databases including pubmed, scopus, science direct, google scholar, doja, a...

recovery is a part of disaster management cycle during which repair and reconstruction takes place, and individuals, groups, and communities retake what they have lost and ideally the risk of future incidents reduces. life recovery is a subjective and multidimensional issue influenced by various factors, whereas valid measurable indicators in evaluating the recovery after disasters are helpful....

nitrate contamination is one of the main risks for groundwater in agricultural areas. theevaluation of the effect of agricultural practices on groundwater nitrate concentration, especially in highlysensitive areas, is crucial for a correct land planning, and a good agronomic intervention scheduling. aim of this paper is to map the probability to exceed nitrate regulatory threshold applying a no...

pharmaceutical products prepared in pharmacies have the potential of contamination with different microorganisms. this is in part due to the unhygienic environment and also lack of a suitable preservative system. in this study, microbial quality of eucerin-urea ointments prepared at different pharmacies in tehran, at the point of sale and also after two weeks storage at room temperature was exa...

the objective of this study is to measure the city of tehran’s environmental quality in 2006 (the last census year). primarily, with a comparative analysis of a variety of urban sustainability indicator models, a collection of 54 indicators have been chosen and categorized as indicators of increase or decrease in urban environmental quality in the form of a simple mathematical model. based on t...

various physico chemical characteristics of the river ganga in varanasi were studied in the oct 2005 to nov 2006. ecological parameters like dissolved oxygen(do), ph, nitrate(no3-), po43- and bacterial population were analyzed and compared with standard permissible limits to assess the best designated use of the river water for various purposes. study revealed that the water quality at varanasi...