core dental journals according to production and citation rates dr. sdj. ghazi mirsaeid * *assistant professor of medical library and information sciences dept., faculty of allied medical sciences and dental research center, tehran university / medical sciences. abstract background and aim: given the rapid expansion of dental journals in one hand, and limitation of resources on the other, it ma...

objective: citation analysis is a bibliometric method used for the calculation of the mean number of citations and detection of highly cited references, frequency distribution of citations in different languages, update rate, efficacy of resources and number of core journals of a scientific domain. this process elucidates the information needs of researchers in a specific realm of science and e...

the aim of this research is to determine the core journals in hamadan university of medical sciences with bradford's law of scattering. survey method, bibliometrics and bradford's law are used in this research. research population consists of all subscribed journals of hamadan university of medical sciences in 2004-006. research results show that 109 journals (74.7 percent of all jour...

introduction: websites of academic journals have an important role in communicating and providing services to researchers. the present study aimed to determine the number of incoming links of iranian journal of medical sciences websites. besides, it aimed to determine the rate of visibility of core websites based on these findings. methods: this descriptive study was performed using webometrics...

the aim of the present study is to investigate and compare the role of journals with different access models (including print, database, print/database subscriptions) as well as unsubscribed models in meeting the information needs of shiraz university researchers. using a bibliometric method, the communication studies the references used in shiraz university scientific papers indexed by thomson...

in this research ph.d. dissertation of kmsu were studied so that citation behavior of authors could be identified and in so doing, the core journal were introduced. the other aims of this study are determining the type, language and half life of cited journals. citation analysis in this study. to review the references and to determine the core journals, bradford law was used. the references for...

introduction: purchasing scientific journals take a large amount of university library budget. so choosing journals with a scientific validity that response to universities needs is so important. this article aims to have a survey on usage rate of isfahan university of medical sciences users on public, environmental and occupational health journals to confirm core journals via bradford scatteri...