DBIScholar is a free iPhone App that allows for the retrieval and analysis of academic citations. As raw input DBIScholar uses data from Google Scholar. Based on their analysis, a number of citation metrics (e.g., hand g-index, total number of citations) is calculated. Result are available on screen, but can be also stored and used by other Apps (e.g., email). We believe that DBIScholar and its...

The main objective of our ongoing research work is understanding the group dynamics of the scientific creative process, including the flow of research ideas, the creation of new ideas, and their impact on future ideas in collaborative communities. The principal means for pursuing this objective is by analyzing the main outputs of research work, such as scientific publications and their citation...

In recent years there is a small but increasing number of articles presenting and/or analyzing the scientific production from discrete geographical regions on a certain scientific topic. These articles applied the so-called bibliometric methods in order to evaluate the contribution of different countries in a scientific research field. In the present work, the research output of all countries i...

this study aimed to explore scientific behavior patterns of postgraduate students of physical education and sport sciences in university of tehran. for this purpose, the descriptive analytical method was used. findings indicated that out of 6234 documents cited in 104 master's dissertations, in terms of the publication quality (printed or web-based), the citations of printed sources (96.75...

or many years journal impact factor has been used for the evaluation of researchers and research centers. After proposal of h-index by Hirsch, this metric has soon found its place and currently many authorities use it as a substitute for the journal impact factor for assessing the researchers and research centers or even journals. The Iranian Ministry of Health has recently decided to evaluate ...

background the impact factor (if), as the most important criterion for journal’s quality measurement, is affected by the self-citation and number of publications in each journal. objectives to find out the relationship between the number of publications and self-citations in a journal, and their correlations with if. materials and methods self-citations and impact factors of nine top gastroente...

The authors evaluated the retrieval power of PubMed "Clinical Queries," narrow search string, about therapy in comparison with a modified search string to avoid possible retrieval bias. PubMed search strategy was compared to a slightly modified string that included the Britannic English term "randomised." The authors tested the two strings joined onto each of four terms concerning topics of bro...

purpose: to review on outcomes of phosphorus-32 ( 32 p) intracavitary irradiation for craniopharyngiomas. methods: a literature review of all full publications in english biomedical journals (1981-2014) was performed. the search strategy included a combination of key words “phosphorus-32”, “craniopharyngioma”, “intracystic treatment”, “brain”, “cyst”, “tumor”, “brachytherapy”, “intracavitary ir...