purpose: the purpose of this paper is to analyze and identify the different types of bibliographic relationships and vocabularies represented in persian literary families. this could help cataloguers and catalogue designers to do more meaningful information organization. methodology: research population included the bibliographic records of four literary families: shahnameh, masnavi, hafez's di...

A computer program, coded in QuickBASIC language, is used to make a non-redundant list of references, in alphabetical order, that are found in a scientific manuscript (formatted as a DOS text file). The program can extract either direct or indirect citations as in the following: Byers (1983a, b, 1984) and Miller and Keen, 1960; Byers et al., 1984; Byers 1984) An IBM-compatible personal computer...

The paper presents a paradigm for a multilingual information system for Indian languages. MARC21 is taken as the basis and UNICODE is adopted for multilingual representation of bibliographic data in Indian languages. The objective of the system is to present search results in any one chosen Indian language irrespective of the original language of the bibliographic record. In other words the ret...

The Web is a typical example of a social network. One of the most intriguing features of the Web is its self-organization behavior, which is usually faced through the existence of communities. The discovery of the communities in a Web-graph can be used to improve the effectiveness of search engines, for purposes of prefetching, bibliographic citation ranking, spam detection, creation of road-ma...

An evaluation method used to assess the quality of research productivity and to provide priorities for budget allocation purposes is presented. This method, developed by a working group of the National Institute for Research on Cancer (IST), Genoa, Italy, is based on the partitioning of categories of the Science Citation Index and Journal Citation Reports (SCI-JCR) into deciles, which normalize...

Increasing numbers of physical therapists are providing evaluation and therapy in their own private-practice clinics. Their move out of the hospital setting has reduced their access to the sources of information designed to support clinical and practice-management decision making. The author designed a survey to determine how often physical therapists in private practice in Vermont use seven so...

In previous studies, much attention from multidisciplinary fields has been devoted to understand the mechanism of underlying scholarly networks including bibliographic networks, citation networks and co-citation networks. Particularly focusing on networks constructed by means of either authors’ affinities or the mutual content. Missing a valuable dimension of network, which is an audience schol...

Citation is a reference to a previous work; it is usually embedded in a paper for the purpose of acknowledging the relevance of the works of others to the topic of discussion. Every published paper has a list of citations in the bibliographic section, which establishes a relationship between itself and the other papers in a scientific discipline. The complete collection of citations in a scient...

research article (ra) genre has been a significant area of research in academic writing over past decades. however, authors’ identity in ras has not received much attention, especially in soft sciences like applied linguistics. this paper reports a corpus analysis of iranian writers’ authorial presence markers in ras in the field of applied linguistics. the corpus comprised 30 ras (200,000 word...