The study investigated whether there was any significant generic difference between the Research Questions (RQs) and Method sections of applied linguistics research articles (RAs) published in international and local Iranian journals. Two hundred applied linguistics RAs (100 from each group) were selected from 5 SSCI-indexed international journals and 5 Iranian Scientific-Research (Elmi-Pazhouh...

journal performance metrics are designed to help users know the best journals in different scientific fields. in this article, some journals indexed in isc database are compared using scopus and isc performance indicators. the scopus journal analyzer uses snip and sjr as alternatives for if which consider citation analysis differently. new performance indicators consider differences in citation...

Dear colleagues, It is my pleasure to welcome you in the third issue of Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine and I hope you find it interesting. In this issue, beside the valuable original articles and an interesting case report, a useful review article have been published concerning the role of nuclear medicine in the management of solitary pulmonary nodule.I am proud to announce you that Journ...

in most countries, internationally indexed scientific publications provide the possibility for the scientometric experts to study their scientific progress. in iran, the number of scientific productions indexed in isi was 323 in 1993 and rose to 14832 in 2008 showing about 46 manifolds. the main aim of this research is to illustrate the dynamic structure of scientific productions of iranian bio...

Scientometrics is one of the most important scales for evaluating scientific outputs. Co-word and social network analysis (SNA) were used to investigate relationships in field accounting researches indexed on Scopus. The findings study indicate that frequent topics vocabulary this area economic analysis, effects. Moreover, valuable subject areas identified: based closeness, they are water resou...

introduction: since international increase of scientific productions is an indicator in assessing different countries, the purpose of this research is to investigate the scientific productions of iranian type i pharmacy faculty members (universities of isfahan, tabriz, shiraz, tehran and mashhad) in the institute for scientific information (isi) during 2006-2008. methods: in this scientometric ...

bibliometric, and scientometric approaches are used to provide appropriate tools for evaluating scientific products at local, national, and international levels. iran, the same as other countries, has many universities and research centers in the field of engineering that iran's most of the scientific products account for the field of engineering. this study is a descriptive approach using scie...

since reference practices influence journal impact factor (jif), author self- citation (asc), number of times an author cites herself / himself, and journal self-citation (jsc), number of times the journal cites itself, as a portion of total citations should be considered in citation analysis. isi provides quantitative indicators for publications in english language. therefore, those scientific...