the study is based on 1808 citations appended to 101 research articles published in 7 volumes of 14 issues appeared in the international journal of information science and management (ijism) during 2003 to 2009. earlier, this journal was known (before 2008) as the iranian journal of information science and technology (ijist). here, the author is considering the latest title (ijism) for the stud...

Citations to scholarly items are building bricks for multidisciplinary science communication. Citation analyses are currently influencing individual career advancement and ranking of academic and research institutions worldwide. This article overviews the involvement of scientific authors, reviewers, editors, publishers, indexers, and learned associations in the citing and referencing to preser...

The number of citations to previous work of an individual scientist has been considered, in part, to be an important indicator of academic performance in research. Some of these citations, of course, are to the author’s own work; the Germans call this “Eigenlob,” or self-praise. We analyzed data obtained from 340 papers (294 original articles and 46 review papers) in a sample of leading biomedi...

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence and inaccessibility of Internet references in the bibliography of biomedical publications when first released in PubMed. METHODS During a one-month observational study period (Feb 21 to Mar 21, 2006) the Internet citations from a 20% random sample of all forthcoming publications released in PubMed during the previous day were identified. Attempts to acce...

background this research analyses the sources of theses of master of science graduated from medical sciences of jundishapur university between 1999-2011 for studying their documents. material and methods the method of research is descriptive and a kind of analyzing documents which are the most known method in bibliometrics studies. statistical analysis used in this study bradford law. results r...