extended abstract 1. introduction the translation of literary works in iran has always been subject to social and political conditions, intellectual tendencies, and dominant ideologies of the related historical period. hence, in each period the translators were inclined to translate specific literary works according to the beliefs and viewpoint of a distinguished political and social group. thu...

background: the number of scientific publication by a country is an important indication of its science generation and development. the aim of this study was to compare the publications in medical sciences of islamic countries from 2002-2009 with those of a number of developed countries.   methods: the pubmed and cia world fact book were used to extract the number of publications and socioecono...

Funding for basic conservation research is chronically lacking. The potential for ecotourism to fund conservation research exists, but has been little explored. One branch of ecotourism with funding potential is volunteer tourism, where conservation scientists and recruiting agencies develop research projects and volunteers provide funding and labor. We examine the costs and benefits of a three...

Most instances of deteriorating environmental conditions are caused by human behavior. Although there are certainly instances of such environmental conditions developing from natural processes, most are largely the result of human activity. Drivers of phenomena such as climate change, loss of species’ habitats, and ocean acidification rarely are the result of malicious intent, but rather the co...

Background: Web of Science (WoS) is an online academic citation index provided by Thomson Reuters which supplies valuable bibliometric information for comparing impact of specific author, organization, or country in science production. The aim of this study was to compare toxicology publications of Iran and Turkey indexed in WoS from bibliometric point of view. Methods: The WoS database was ...

this study mainly aims to compare the quantity of iranian publications and their citation impact in the two popular citation databases, scopus and web of science. the documents which specified iran as their affiliated country published during 1998-2007 were selected as iran’s publications in the two databases. during the examined years, iran has published 49198 documents in scopus and 35061 doc...

M. A. Khakoo, H. Silva, J. Muse, M. C. A. Lopes, C. Winstead, and V. McKoy Department of Physics, California State University, Fullerton, California 92831, USA Departamento de Física, ICE, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora-MG, CEP 36036-330, Brazil A. A. Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA Received 18 Septemb...