backgroud: web 2.0 tools and environments are a new trend in sharing information and communication. its significant characteristic is concentrating on website users′ and developers′ interaction. this study aimed to determine the knowledge of medical science university students’ about web 2.0 environments in west of iran by emphasizing on use of these environments in learning- teaching process. ...

For more than 40 years, the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI, now part of Thomson-Reuters), produced the only available database making possible citation analysis, the Web of Science (WoS). Now, another company, Reed-Elsevier, has created its own bibliographic database, Scopus, available since 2002. For those who perform bibliometric analysis and comparisons of countries or institution...

the main purpose of present study is to figure out the web usage rate with emphasize on the invisible web, with using max weber's ideal type among faculty members of science college of bahonar university of kerman. the present study is a survey, and the statistical population is 109 full-time faculty members of the science college of shahid bahonar university of kerman, the sample size how was ...

Current science evaluation still relies on citation performance, despite criticisms of purely bibliometric research assessments. Biological taxonomy suffers from a drain of knowledge and manpower, with poor citation performance commonly held as one reason for this impediment. But is there really such a citation impediment in taxonomy? We compared the citation numbers of 306 taxonomic and 2291 n...

Scientific activity of Social Sciences and Humanities researcher’s comprises an assorted set of publication channels such as books, book chapters and national and international journal articles. Since knowledge dissemination in the field is characterised by a greater use of national journals and local languages, international bibliographic databases do not offer a suitable coverage. This work p...

Abstract Dimensions was introduced as an alternative bibliometric database to the well-established Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus, however all three databases have fundamental differences in coverage content, resultant from their owners’ indexation philosophies. In light these differences, we explore here, using a citation network analysis assessment normalized impact overlapping publications ...

Introduction Today prominent and comprehensive databases such as Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science (WoS) or Elsevier’s Scopus are highly in use for bibliometric research. However, these databases do not index full texts hindering researchers to carry out more detailed analyses. Besides, it is possible that some indexed publications do not have DOI numbers playing an important role to access full ...