What determines researchers’ scientific impact? A case study of Quebec researchers

Becoming Teachers, Becoming Researchers: a Case Study

This paper presents a case study of a group in initial primary teacher education students becoming researchers of their peers’ course experiences of school – university links. The connection between university teacher preparation programmes and work in school is a well-researched area with suggestions that there is a marked disconnect between the two. The project took an emergent approach to le...

Hijacked scientific journals: a warning to researchers

Hijacking of scientific journals consists of websites created by hackers in place of true academic journals for copying their names, addresses, impact factors and international publication numbers in order to steal scientific output and payment of fees charged for publication.(1) Today there is great pressure on researchers to publish their scientific results. Some journals publish for free and...

Evaluation of scientific productions of Psychology Researchers in the ISI citation system during 2013-2017: Scientific Study

Acinetobacter baumannii: Researchers\' Scientific Cooperation Network in Three Decades

Background and Objective: Acinetobacter baumannii is one of the most common challenging pathogens in causing serious infections in intensive care units of modern hospital systems around the world and poses a serious threat to public and patient health. This study aims to analyze the network of scientific and empirical collaborations of A. baumanniii researchers in the last three decades. Metho...

Impact of academic degree on researchers’ information seeking behavior: Case study of Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute

Background and Aim: Usually, researchers who have different levels of academic degrees, are different in terms of specialized knowledge. Also, academic degree may affect the information seeking behavior of researchers. Therefore, in this study, the difference of information seeking behavior of researchers with different academic degree for “conducting the research” and “updating scientific info...