introduction: academic libraries are famous to be the hearts of universities, with the ever increasing importance of the evaluation of information technologies in academic centers, and libraries need to evaluate their status to accord with these conditions. the aim of this research is to provide an evaluation relating to the conditions of tabriz university of medical science libraries, and coll...

BACKGROUND Scientific journals are the most credible and updated information resources for valid information in the various fields of science and technology. The present study investigates the status of Iranian scientific journals in disseminating medical information to the world of science. MATERIALS AND METHODS Total 163 Iranian medical journals accredited by national medical journals commi...

abstract: purpose: the study was carried out to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the user interface of the islamic world science citation (isc) in the iranian science citation index. methodology: the method was a qualitative and applied one. to do this heuristic research, a checklist consisting of nielson's (pierotti, 2009), cherry et al (lancaster, 1997) and gulliver’s (2002) checklist...

As a follow-up to the highly-cited authors list published by Thomson Reuters in June 2014, we analyze the top-1% most frequently cited papers published between 2002 and 2012 included in the Web of Science (WoS) subject category “Information Science & Library Science.” 798 authors contributed to 305 top-1% publications; these authors were employed at 275 institutions. The authors at Harvard Univ...