To boost their research productivities, Chinese universities are putting great pressure on their research-active staff to publish in internationally indexed journals. However, the emerging publish-or-perish culture in China has seen little empirical investigation thus far. In the research reported in this article, semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven young researchers in science...

This study aims to analyze 343 retraction notices indexed in the Scopus database, published 2001-2019, related scientific articles (co-)written by at least one author affiliated with an Iranian institution. In order determine reasons for retractions, we merged this database from Retraction Watch. The data were analyzed using Excel 2016 and IBM-SPSS version 24.0, visualized VOSviewer software. M...

currently, the scientific output indexed in databases such as isi’s prestigious of the major criteria for evaluation and ranking of countries, researchers, institutes and universities in the world. each country’s share in world scientific output in general and specifically in the area, will be calculated accordingly. therefore, determination of the rate of growth and iranian authors of articles...

background: web of science (wos) is an online academic citation index provided by thomson reuters which supplies valuable bibliometric information for comparing impact of specific author, organization, or country in science production. the aim of this study was to compare toxicology publications of iran and turkey indexed in wos from bibliometric point of view. methods: the wos database was que...

INTRODUCTION With the continuing worldwide shortage of anesthesiologists, the demands of clinical duties allow very little time for research activities. Every dedicated biomedical center should provide doctors and scientists with the proper environment to facilitate education, clinical practice and research activities and promote publication in international peer-review journals. METHODS In t...

BACKGROUND Scientific publication is a vital mission of medical schools and it is important to periodically document how well schools fulfil this mission. AIMS This study aimed to analyse the publication record of Libyan medical schools in international journals indexed in PubMed between 1988 and 2007. METHODS Medline was searched using PubMed for publications affiliated to Libya during 198...

The past several years we have witnessed that information has become the most precious asset, while protection and security of information is becoming an ever greater challenge due to the large amount of knowledge necessary for organizations to successfully withstand external threats and attacks. This knowledge collected from the domain of information security can be formally described by secur...

OBJECTIVE To assess the proportion of papers presented at the XXI Panamerican Congress of Trauma, VIII Congress of the Brazilian Society of Integrated Assistance to the Traumatized (SBAIT) and X Brazilian Congress of Trauma Leagues (CoLT) that were published in full. METHODS In the events cited, based in Campinas in 2008, 347 papers abstracts of were presented and published. To evaluate the p...