Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC): Evaluating Scholary Journals Based on Citation Analysis

نویسندگان

  • Jaffar Mehrad
  • Sholeh Arastoopoor
چکیده

INTRODUCTION Citation analysis is currently one of the most widely used metrics for analyzing the scientific contribution in different fields. The Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) aims at promoting technical cooperation among Muslim scientists and their respected centers based on these theories. It also facilitates the accessibility of knowledge and research contribution among them. This paper aims at revealing some of the outmost features of ISC databases, in order to give a fairly clear view of what it is and what are its products. The paper consists of three major parts. After an introduction about the Islamic World Science Citation Center, the paper deals with major tools and products of ISC. In the third part ISCs' journal Submission system is presented as an automatic means, by which users can upload journals' papers into the respected databases. CONCLUSION Some complementary remarks have been made regarding the current state of ISC and its future plans.

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دوره 20  شماره 

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تاریخ انتشار 2012