Universities work in collaboration with many other organizations, and these collaborations have important consequences for the national economy. The ability to measure these collaborations in a quick, timely fashion in comparison with similar organizations would enable institutions to improve collaborative efforts. This article investigates the potential of web links to act as an indicator of c...

this research aims to investigate visibility, web impact factor (wif), rwif and the collaboration rate of the websites of the iranian universities dominated by the ministry of science, research and technology (msrt), and health and medical education (mhrme), using an analysis of the various links among these websites and webometrics. from all 119 websites belonging to the iranian universities, ...

The Diffusion of Information Technology and the Increased Propensity of Teams to Transcend Institutional and National Borders This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across institutional and national borders. To undertake the research, the authors match an explicit measure of institutional IT adoption (domain names, e.g. www.umsl.ed...

INTRODUCTION Collaboration is one of the defining features of contemporary scientific research, and it is particularly important with regard to neglected diseases that primarily affect developing countries. METHODS The present study has identified publications on leishmaniasis in the Medline database from 1945 to 2010, analyzing them according to bibliometric indicators and statistics from so...

social capital referred to communications and links that based on trust and formed between human and institutional collections as a valuable source. this article aimed to explore the social capital concept and its indicators and how to evaluation its criteria, and then compare this variables in executive organization of qom province until can introduce a clear illustration about this concept. t...