background: this study made an attempt to make the quantitative and qualitative evaluation of hematological research output in five islamic countries iran, turkey, malaysia, saudi arabia and egypt which have the most scientific productions from 1996-2013. materials and methods: the current study was carried out during the 1st to 31st of september, 2014 in blood transfusion research center, shir...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to analyse the citation patterns and impact and immediacy indicators of the Farmacia Hospitalaria journal during the period 2001-2005. METHOD An analysis of citations chosen from 101 Spanish health science journals was carried out in order to determine the citing and cited journals and the national and international impact and immediacy indicators. A s...

Nobel Prizes are commonly seen to be among the most prestigious achievements of our times. Based on mining several million citations, we quantitatively analyze the processes driving paradigm shifts in science. We find that groundbreaking discoveries of Nobel Prize Laureates and other famous scientists are not only acknowledged by many citations of their landmark papers. Surprisingly, they also ...

Many existing studies of the development of accounting thought have either been atheoretical or have adopted Kuhn’s model of scientific growth. The limitations of this thirty-five year old model are discussed. Four different general neo-Kuhnian models of scholarly knowledge development are reviewed and compared with reference to an analytical matrix. The models are found to be mutually consiste...

To improve patient support, it is important to understand how people view and experience Heart Failure (HF) self-care. This systematic review of qualitative studies included all published studies that examine the influence of sex and gender on HF self-care. A systematic search was done for papers (1995-2010) indexed in Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid Medline, Ovid EMBASE, Ovid PsycINFO, CSA Sociological Abs...

iranian journal of chemistry & chemical engineering(ijcce), english edition,  has 31 years old. ijcce is the first iranian scientific journal indexed in many international data bases including science citation index-expanded (scie) in thomson reuters since 1994. according to scie data base, 937 items has been published during 19 years indexed in scie, which obtained 803 total citations. 92%...

Many U.S. states rely on older adults to self-regulate their driving and determine when driving is no longer a safe option. However, the relationship of older adults' self-rated driving in terms of actual driving competency outcomes is unclear. The current study investigates self-rated driving in terms of (1) systematic differences between older adults with high (good/excellent) versus low (poo...