background: the purpose of this study was to detect the prevalence of ghost and honorary authors and its determinant factors in bio-medical journals of iran. methods: the study was done in 2009-10 in tehran, kerman, and iran medical universities, iran.  we contacted the first or corresponding authors of the papers had published papers in the recent two issues of iranian journal of public health...

The hfarerirds Science Cimrion Index w on CD-ROM, a new specialty index launched by the Institute for Scientific Information’@, is discussed. The index contains searchable author abstracts,

This index covers all items-papers, correspondence, reviews, etc.that appeared in this periodical dunng 1979, and items from prior years that were commented upon or corrected in 1979. The index is divided into an Author Index and a Subject Index, both arranged alphabetically. The Author Index contains the primary entry for each item; this entry is listed under the name of the first author and i...

Bibliographic analysis has been a very powerful tool in evaluating the effective contributions of a researcher and determining his/her future research potential. The lack of an absolute quantification of the author's scientific contributions by the existing measurement system hampers the decision-making process. In this paper, a new metric system, Absolute index (Ab-index), has been proposed th...

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