isi web of science (wos) is the world's most prestigious database that is used in order to evaluate and rank the countries, researchers, institutions, and universities. therefore, determining the status of iranian articles in this database in the field of poisonous and venomous animals is important. quantitative and qualitative assessments of scientific outputs are the main goals of this stu...

Frequencies and discourse functions of grammatical subject types were investigated in a corpus of forty results and discussion sections selected from four disciplines (Applied Linguistics, Psychology, Chemistry, and Environmental Engineering). The results and discussion sections were selected from research articles that were published in 2008-2012 issues of prestigious high journals of ...

background: pedestrian injuries are a significant source of mortality and disability among children and prevention of it requires educational strategies and comprehensive approaches. this study was done to determine the effect of health education based on planned behavior theory (tpb) in promotion of safe behaviors in crossing the road among students, who are in four-grade in the primary school...

Central elements of the Bologna declaration have been implemented in a huge variety of curricula in humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering sciences at German universities. Overall the results have been nothing less than disastrous. Surprisingly, this seems to be the perfect time for German universities to talk about introducing a curriculum that is fully compatible with t...

BACKGROUND The journal impact factor is increasingly employed to evaluate the quality of scientific research. This is in contrary to its critical limitations, e.g., its marked variation across scientific disciplines. This study was conducted to describe, in both quantitative and qualitative terms, the contribution of Iranian universities and research institutes to biomedical publications in 200...

of higher education into focus in the past few years. they have tried to improve the quality of their own higher education. the studies show that iranian universities are not at an accepted level in terms of quality. they have encountered several problems which have diminished their quality level. this study aimed at assessing the quality of medical education program as viewed by general practi...

OBJECTIVES In this study, we have evaluated the lifetime and past-year prevalence of exposure to physical violence among married women in the city of Tehran and urban and rural areas of Hashtgerd. METHODS The target population were noninstitutionalized female citizens, aged 15 years or older, who have at least one history of marriage and who resided in the capital city of Tehran or Hashtgerd ...