Thanks to the development of the concept of metadiscourse, it is now widely acknowledged that academic/scientific writing is not only concerned with communicating purely propositional meanings: what is communicated through academic/scientific communication is seen to be intertwined with the negotiation of social and interpersonal meanings. While a large number of so called metadiscoursal resour...

dear editor in recent years, the number of scientific research papers of iranian scientists has substantially grown in national and international journals that indicates particular attitude of iranian scientific community to the development of knowledge in different fields. moreover, improvement of quality of scientific papers is necessary. for this purpose, criticism of published studies is a ...

physical education being applied in nature, the role of scientific research has been widely challenged in this field. applying a bibliometric analysis method, the present study tries to investigate scientific achievement in sports and exercises and examine its relation to practical performance, using scholarly papers indexed in isi as substitutes of scientific productivity and medals won in oly...