INTRODUCTION As a common type of malignancy, breast cancer is one of the major causes of death in women globally. The purpose of the current study was to analyze Iran research performance on Breast Cancer in the context of national and international studies, shown in the publications indexed in Scopus database during 1991-2015. METHODS Data were retrieved from the Scopus citation database in ...

Although news stories target the general public and are sometimes inaccurate, they can serve as sources of real-world information for researchers. This article investigates the extent to which academics exploit journalism using content and citation analyses of online BBC News stories cited by Scopus articles. A total of 27,234 Scopus-indexed publications have cited at least one BBC News story, ...

Introduction: In the current study, we compared h5-index provided by Google Scholar (GS), impact factor (IF) provided by web of sciences (WOS), and SCImago journal rank indicator (SJR) provided by SCOPUS for quality assessment of nuclear medicine journals. Methods: 2013 h5-index, 2012 IF, and 2011 SJR of nuclear medicine journals were extracted from their publishers namely GS, WOS, and SCOPUS. ...

Con el objetivo de identificar en qué consiste la formación del urbanismo Latinoamérica, a través revisión narrativa base datos Scopus, se diseñaron protocolos búsqueda y selección. Se obtuvieron 31 trabajos que, tras su análisis, permitieron identificación dos grupos formativos: aprender ciudad para ciudad. El primero ellos dividió tres subgrupos: historiografía enseñanza urbanismo, paradigmas...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the results of recent experiments in determining the h-index at the country level for the 10 Ibero-American countries of South America. Design/methodology/approach – The three citation index components (Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index) of the Web of Science system of Thomson-Reuters and...

We would like to verify the correlation among various citation indicators of 62 Korean scientific journals listed in the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus. From a total of 85 Korean journals listed in both WoS as of January 2013, and 132 journals listed in Scopus as of 2011, 62 Korean journals listed in both citation indices were selected for analysis. Citation index indicators selected for analy...