scientific communications network is presented in, sociology of science. and we can use steven's evaluative bibliometrics to map it. in citation network approach, scientist's communication behavior is predicted through their citation behavior. in this paper, first, concepts such as sociology of science, scientific community, scientific communications and its kinds are described. two k...

the aim of this research was to study the self-citation of physical education professors in “olympic” and “harakat” journals from 2003 to 2009. the amount and number of papers with self-citation, the ratio of self-citation authors to all authors, number of self-citation and its amount, self-citation distribution according to the year of publication and the ratio of self-citation to the type of ...

background: in this study, the impact of self-citation (journal and author) on impact factor of iranian english medical journals in two international citation databases, web of science (wos) and islamic world science citation center (isc), were compared by citation analysis. methods: twelve journals in wos and 26 journals in isc databases indexed between the years (2006-2009) were selected and ...

visualization of scientific maps enhances the awareness and general recognition of the scientific domains and their structures. it facilitates the study of the existing situation and planning of the future researches as well. the present study sought to discover and generate the scientific map of medicine in iran between 2003 and 2007. it also aimed to determine the most effective medical subje...

introduction: self-citation is considered as one of the greatest shortcomings of citation analysis. although self-citation is natural for journals, its excessive use would eliminate the journal from evaluations made by databases. this study examined the rate of self-citation of iranian scientific medical journals in english indexed in scopus citation index during 2005-2009. methods: this descri...

highly cited papers are mostly authored in international collaboration. it is expected that   co-authored papers bring more citations. on the other hand, it is inevitable that a part of citations is self-citation. this study investigates 134 and 236 highly cited papers in iran and turkey, respectively, to determine the extent to which highly cited papers are affected by author self-citation. a ...

the aim of this paper is to determine if the centrality degree and density of latin-american and caribbean countries (la-c) predicts their citation based performance in academic research in the management discipline. for our analysis, we use publication data of the social science citation index in the field of ‘‘management’’ between 1988 and 2013, extracted from isi web of science. the resultin...