aim and background: appropriate and comprehensive response to problems and needs of mental health services requires to employ participatory approaches. therefore, this literature review study aimed to assess interprofessional collaboration as one of the beneficial methods of delivering mental health services. methods and materials: in this review study, data was collected by searching electroni...

Supervisory CommitteeDr. Margaret-Anne Storey, (Department of Computer Science)SupervisorDr. Daniela Damian, (Department of Computer Science)Departmental MemberDr. Eric Manning, (Department of Computer Science)Departmental MemberDr. Gholamali Shoja, (Department of Computer Science)Departmental MemberDr. Rosaline Canessa, (Department of Geography)Outside M...

background and objective: co-authorship on writing articles is one of the indicators of reliability in scientific articles. due to the lack of information regarding to the rate of participation of the authors of articles in the ” iranian journal of pathology” this research with the aim of the survey of collaborative coefficients of article authors in this journal  from 2006 to 2012 was performe...

This paper introduces a conceptual framework for research on citizen science, a form of collaboration involving scientists and volunteers in scientific research. Designing CSCW systems to support this type of scientific collaboration requires understanding the effects of organizational and work design on the scientific outcomes of citizen science projects. Initial directions for future research...

Scientific experimentation in the molecular biology domain is highly dynamic and requires expertise from diverse disciplines, such as molecular biology, statistics, bioinformatics and mathematics. Scientists are confronted with new technological developments and bioinformatics tools when analyzing and interpreting vast amounts of data from their experiments. In our project, we investigate the f...

Original scientific paper Collaboration has become main stream and trend in interdisciplinary fields. In research collaboration organizations, to evaluate the contributions of researchers to the organization and then to identify core researchers is an important issue to carry out performance appraisal and crisis management of brain drain. Scientific research collaboration network is a basic mod...

BACKGROUND The establishment of scientific collaborations with researchers abroad can be considered a good practice to make appropriate use of their knowledge and to increase the possibilities of them returning to their country. This paper analyses the collaboration between Spanish researchers abroad devoted to health sciences and national science institutions. METHODS We used the Fontes' app...

BACKGROUND Mental disorder is harmful to human health, effects social life seriously and still brings a heavy burden for countries all over the world. Scientific collaboration has become the indispensable choice for progress in the field of biomedicine. However, there have been few scientific publications on scientific collaboration in psychiatry research so far. The aim of this study was to me...

Scientific collaborations shape novel ideas and new discoveries and help scientists to advance their scientific career through publishing high impact publications and grant proposals. Recent studies however show that gender inequality is still present in many scientific practices ranging from hiring to peer review processes and grant applications. While empirical findings highlight that collabo...