research methods is one of the way for knowing the truth, hence citation analysis is the one.many experts and professionals in various field, count citation analysis as a research tool, but since citation analysis has some of the important characteristics of research methods such as describing phenomena objectively, having ideas, indicating the relationship between the phenomenon and use of too...

BACKGROUND In this study, the impact of self-citation (Journal and Author) on impact factor of Iranian English Medical journals in two international citation databases, Web of Science (WoS) and Islamic world science citation center (ISC), were compared by citation analysis. METHODS Twelve journals in WoS and 26 journals in ISC databases indexed between the years (2006-2009) were selected and ...

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