Introduction: Citation is an essential prevalent feature of all academic writings in various fields of knowledge. It is employed by authors and researchers across disciplines for diverse reasons. This study was aimed at comparing types and functions of citations in medical research articles in discussion sections between Iranian medical faculty members and their native counterparts. Method: To...

• Except for a very few high-impact journals, almost all journals’ impact factor rankings change when self-citations are excluded from the calculation. Self-citations important non-English speaking academic communities. Not journals equal, and so it is quite problematic to assess them using one formula. It policymakers understand underlying problems related Self-citation patterns of 1,104 index...

this article gives an overview of the islamic world science citation center's (isc) journal citation reports (jcr) database. isc-jcr is the only source of citation data on islamic countries’ leading journals and covers journals in english, arabic and persian languages. it provides information on highest impact journals in a field, the most cited journals and hottest journals. this database allo...