Academic research on digital games has been conducted for over 30 years. However, the abundance of disciplines conducting research on the topic makes it challenging for the interested to get a holistic and comprehensive account of past digital game studies. Yet, sophisticated text mining tools designed for structured science information resources, such as the ISI Web of Science or INSPEC, make ...

objective(s): citation tracking is an important method to analyze the scientific impact of journal articles and can be done through scopus (sc), google scholar (gs), or isi web of knowledge (wos). in the current study, we analyzed the citations to 2011-2012 articles of iranian journal of basic medical sciences (ijbms) in these three resources.   material and methods: the relevant data from sc, ...

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...

CONTEXT Suicide prevention is a health service priority. Some surveys have assessed suicidal behaviors and potential risk factors. OBJECTIVES The current paper aimed to gather information about etiology of suicide attempts in Iran. DATA SOURCES Pubmed, ISI web of science, PsychInfo, IranPsych, IranMedex, IranDoc as well as gray literature were searched. STUDY SELECTION By electronic and g...

this research examines the association between co-authorship network centrality (degree, closeness, betweenness, eigenvector, bonacich flow betweenness) and productivity of information science researchers. the research population includes all those researchers who have published at least one record in one of the twenty journals of information science which has an impact factor of 0.635 as a min...