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 : this study was carried out to evaluate activities in different branches of science in iran compared to other countries over the past 35 years. methods : e ssential science indicators (esi ) and web of science from (thomson reuters isi) and scimago journal & country rank (sjr) were searched for scientometrics data . esi indicated place of iran among other countries in all 22 scienti...

the scientific development in today’s globalized environment calls for increasing interaction with scientific and technological centers. scientific networks and networking with reliance on scientific and academic experts constitute one of the existing strategies to achieve this objective. through the passage of history, iran has had economic and cultural exchange with countries located in the i...

introduction: traditional medicine is not only useful in health care and improvement of quality of life, but also is applied in diagnosis and treatment of diseases. hence, paying more attention to this area is of high important. this study aimed to evaluate the scientific production and scientific mapping of iranian researchers in traditional medicine during 1990-2011 in “web of science” databa...

we show a lot of respect for science today. to back up our claims, we tend to appeal to scientific methods. it seems that we all agree that these methods are effective for gaining the truth. we can ask why science has its special status as a supplier of knowledge about our external world and our bodies. of course, one should not always trust what scientists say. nonetheless, epistemological jus...