This article starts with an overview of the field of patinformatics––the science of analyzing patent information to discover relationships and trends. This is followed by a survey of many common analysis tasks in this field, and many of the software tools available to tackle these tasks. The survey is set out under the tasks of list cleanup and grouping of concepts; list generation; cooccurrenc...

introduction: web citations (urls) are at risk of decay and can be easily fade because of the variable and unstable nature of the internet. so, the purpose of this research was to assess web citation accessibility and decay of articles published in journal of the medical library association (jmla). methods: in this applied– descriptive study, jmla articles (231) in a seven year period (from 200...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Tropical and vector borne diseases have always been a challenge for the medical science and society and exerted high impact on society in terms of financial, economical and psychological relevance. Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is one of the tropical diseases which is prevalent in under developing and developed countries. The objective of this study is to analyze the literat...

MOTIVATION Nowadays, publishers of scientific journals face the tough task of selecting high-quality articles that will attract as many readers as possible from a pool of articles. This is due to the growth of scientific output and literature. The possibility of a journal having a tool capable of predicting the citation count of an article within the first few years after publication would pave...

Research on citations has generally examined citations as part of a system of rewards or as a rhetorical tool for strengthening arguments. This study examines the role of citations both as reward and as rhetoric. The reward system was examined by tracing over time the citation patterns of 13 research articles by two groups of scientists in chaos theory. The rhetorical practices were examined by...