since increasing the number of indexing and abstracting services covering a journal would increase the total citations received by the journal, this study tried to investigate the reasons why iranian journals are not indexed by foreign databases including isi web of science and scopus. this was a descriptive and interpretative study resulting in guidelines for iranian editors and authors. it al...

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...

the present study seeks to investigate the scientific products among the three countries of islamic republic of iran, turkey, and greece as they have entered the 3 rd millennium (during the years 2000-2008) upon the data obtained from isi web of knowledge. in the past, these nations had possessed original, rich, and great civilizations; moreover, these countries had had (and still have) borders...

the aim of this study was comparative evaluation of iran scientific output in the field of food science and technology with five countries including ireland, turkey, egypt, argentina and malaysia during 1990-2010 in the web of science. the number of indexing scientific outputs in this database show that ireland, argentina and turkey ranked sequentially. articles have the largest share of scient...

in this research, the citations received by doaj’s journals from the isi web of science’s articles in 2003 to 2008 were studied and compared. the citations received by the journals in five fields (arts & humanities, social sciences, pure sciences, technology & engineering, and health & medical sciences) as well as the difference among the citations received by doaj’s journals in the above- ment...