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 ...

There is a finite number of different Weighted Order Statistic (WOS) filters of a fixed length N. However, even for relatively small values of N, one cannot immediately see if two given WOS filters are the same by simply looking at the weights and the thresholds. This problem is addressed in this paper. We define two WOS filters to be equivalent (the same) if they produce the same output for ar...

Orthosiphon stamineus Benth has been traditionally used to treat hypertension. The study aimed to investigate the vascular reactivity of water extract (WOS) and water : methanolic (1 : 1) extract (WMOS) of Orthosiphon stamineus Benth and AT1 receptors blocker in the mechanisms of antihypertensive mediated by α 1-adrenergic receptor and EDNO and PGI2 releases in the SHR aortic rings. SHR (230-28...

citation databases have been used for decades as a starting point and often as the only tools for locating citations and/or conducting citation analyses. The ISI databases (or Web of Science [WoS]), however, may no longer be sufficient because new databases and tools that allow citation searching are now available. Using citations to the work of 25 library and information science (LIS) faculty ...

This paper describes our on-going work to accelerate ZENO, a software tool based on Monte Carlo methods (MCMs), used for computing material properties at nanoscale. ZENO employs three main algorithms: (1) Walk on Spheres (WoS), (2) interior sampling, and (3) surface sampling. We have accelerated the first two algorithms. For the sake of brevity, the paper will discuss our work on the first one ...

In this paper, we observe that the design of optimal weighted order statistic(W0S) filters under the mean absolute error criterion can be thought of as a two-class linear classification problem. Based on this observation, the perceptron algorithm is applied to design WOS filters. It is shown, through experiments, that the perceptron algorithm can find optimal or near optimal WOS filters in prac...

Most of the development environments for High Performance Parallel applications require that all the computing modules and resources be known in advance. The execution environment must know where the different program modules will be executed, and must properly configure each computer involved in the execution. In this paper, we describe how the Web Operating System (WOS) environment may be use...

This paper considers the use of the h-index as a measure of a journal’s research quality and contribution. We study a sample of 455 journals in business and management all of which are included in the ISI Web of Science (WoS) and the Association of Business School’s peer review journal ranking list. The h-index is compared with both the traditional impact factors, and with the peer review judge...

Given the current development of the Internet, the Web, mobile communications and services, we are clearly heading towards an era of widely integrated ubiquitous services sharing some kind of global operating system. This article describes the idea, the objectives and the current state of the development of the WOS-project. The Web Operating System (WOS) consists of a series of versioned server...

The reliability of force fields is one of today's major challenges in atomic scale computer simulations. We show how to generate predictive force fields from ab initio simulations in the condensed phase, using maximally localized Wannier orbitals (WO). We derive separately all interaction terms (electrostatic, exchange repulsion, dispersion, and induction) from these localized WOs. We demonstra...