BACKGROUND The journal impact factor is increasingly employed to evaluate the quality of scientific research. This is in contrary to its critical limitations, e.g., its marked variation across scientific disciplines. This study was conducted to describe, in both quantitative and qualitative terms, the contribution of Iranian universities and research institutes to biomedical publications in 200...

This study was a cross-sectional investigation into the request strategies used by Iranian learners of English as a Foreign Language and Australian native speakers of English. The sample involved 96 BA and MA Persian students and 10 native speakers of English. A Discourse Completion Test (DCT) was used to generate data related to the request strategies used by each group. Selection of request s...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to investigate the associations among the internal health locus of control, depression, perceived health status, self efficacy, social support, and health-promoting behavior in Iranian breast cancer survivors and to determine influential variables. MATERIALS AND METHODS A predictive design was adopted. By convenient sampling the data of 262 breast canc...

BACKGROUND To meet the future challenges in the field of reproductive medicine in Iran, better understanding of published studies is needed. Bibliometric methods and social network analysis have been used to measure the scope and illustrate scientific output of researchers in this field. OBJECTIVE This study provides insight into the structure of the network of Iranian papers published in the...

Fatemeh Sadat Tahami* and Alireza Keyhan Sani Author Affiliations Caspian Sea Ecology Research Center (CSERC), Iranian Fisheries Science Institute (IFSRI), Agricultural Research, Education Extension Organization (AREEO), Iran Received: April 07, 2021 | Published: 22, Corresponding author: Tahami, DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2021.35.005678