since increasing the number of indexing and abstracting services covering a journal would increase the total citations received by the journal, this study tried to investigate the reasons why iranian journals are not indexed by foreign databases including isi web of science and scopus. this was a descriptive and interpretative study resulting in guidelines for iranian editors and authors. it al...

the aim of this research is to evaluate the degree of adaptation of areeo’s scientific journals with standards and investigating their index ability in reliable databases. checklists are used for data gathering.survey is used as research method. a checklist consists of 24 criteria, 16 for evaluation and 8 for the way of indexing of journals in reliable internal and external databases, is prepar...

Dear editor Periodical assessment and monitoring of journal statistics by editor in chief and other related editorial board  bring important insight to determine the quality of scientific production process and provide detail if a journal is paving the way to  join the mainstream internationally recognized indexing databases such as ISI [www.webofknowledge.com], Medline [www.Pubmed.org] and Sc...

A new, fully automated approach for indexing documents is presented based on associating textwords in a training set of bibliographic citations with the indexing of journals. This journal-level indexing is in the form of a consistent, timely set of journal descriptors (JDs) indexing the individual journals themselves. This indexing is maintained in journal records in a serials authority databas...

We describe techniques used to link resources to new FamilySearch PersonIDs in the BYU Historic Journals Project. We describe both manual (crowd-sourced) tagging, and automatic/semi-automatic record linkage. We also describe possible future research directions.

Dear colleagues, Welcome to the fourth issue of the Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine. We are grateful that with support and cooperation of our dear colleagues, the first year of JCTM publication passed successfully. We are expecting to promote the indexing of Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine in the following year. In this issue, a valuable review article has been written by Dr.Corlateanu ...