isi web of science (wos) is the world's most prestigious database that is used in order to evaluate and rank the countries, researchers, institutions, and universities. therefore, determining the status of iranian articles in this database in the field of poisonous and venomous animals is important. quantitative and qualitative assessments of scientific outputs are the main goals of this stu...

Background & Aims: Increasing pressure for having scholarly publications in accredited English medium journals emphasizes the need to enhance academic writing ability by author-researchers in various fields, especially, in medical and hard sciences. In order to enhance the language of manuscripts, many authors seek assistance from editors prior to submission to high-status journals. Various typ...

* A short version of this paper was published in Proceedings of ASIS&T 2005 Annual Conference. † Email: [email protected], Phone: 1-780-4922814, Fax: 1-780-4922430 The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) – the way cocitation counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings ...