information avalanche (overload or expansion) in various scientific fields is a novel issue turned out by a number of factors considered necessary to facilitate their record and registration. though, the biological science and its diverse fields like proteomics are not immune of this event and even may be as the event’s herald. on the other hand, time as the most valued anxiety of human has enc...

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...

introduction: most physicians consider abstracts to give a general idea about the full text of an article. abstracts, as summative and informative parts, contain main information of papers. they also point out the content of papers to readers. the importance of abstracts leads journals to be stricter about their structure and content. this study aimed to assess the abstracts of randomized contr...