Prof. Nosrat Safaeian from Sari, Australia received the Outstanding Achievement Award for Stewardship from the Iranian Society for Range Management at the 5th National Conference held in Boroujerd, Lorestan, Iran. He was born in Khorramabad and graduated in Ecology and Range Management from Montpellier, Science and Technique University, French in 1979.  I am honoured to introduce Prof. Nosrat S...

background: authorship of peer-reviewed publications can create conflict among academics. objective: to document authorship conflicts of academics at a tertiary faculty. methods: an anonymous questionnaire eliciting authorship conflicts and knowledge of authorship criteria was administered online to 154 academic staff members at a new zealand university. results: 43 academics responded, a respo...

the iranian journal of radiation research (ijrr) is now in the eighth year of publication. this journal is the mouth piece of shared idea of dr shahram akhlaghpoor and me, which was established way back in 2002. at that time the main emphasis of the founder members was to make the subject of radiation research attractive and interesting especially for combating cancer and risk assessment. the d...

background: there is a paucity of information about the oral pathology related articles published in a pathology journal. this study aimed to audit the oral pathology related articles published in iranian journal of pathology (iran j pathol)from 2006 to 2015. methods: bibliometric analysis of issues of iran j pathol from 2006 to 2015 was performed using web-based search.the articles published w...

Due to legislative protection, many species, including large carnivores, are currently recolonizing Europe. To address the impending human-wildlife conflicts in advance, predictive habitat models can be used to determine potentially suitable habitat and areas likely to be recolonized. As field data are often limited, quantitative rule based models or the extrapolation of results from other stud...