Understanding the nature and organization of scientific communities is broad interest. The `Invisible College' a historical metaphor for one such type community search `colleges' can be framed as detection analysis small groups scientists working on problems common interests. Case studies have previously been conducted individual with respect to their social behavior. In this study, we introduc...

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objectives: scientometric methods and the resulting citations have been applied to investigate the scientific performance of a nation. the present study was designed to collect the statistical information of dental articles by iranian authors published in pubmed. materials and methods: we searched the pubmed database for dental articles of iranian authors until june 31, 2015. all abstracts were...

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...