The relationship between researchers‟ publishing and citing behaviours has received little examination despite its potential importance in scholarly communication, particularly at an international level. To remedy this we studied documents and their references indexed in Thomson Reuters‟s Web of Science (WoS) in the period 2000-2009 to compare journal publishing behaviours against journal citin...

Copyright © 2000, Idea Group Publishing. This paper presents the Access Rainbow, a seven-layer conceptual model of access to the information/communications infrastructure intended to strengthen public interest perspectives in current ‘information highway’ policy discussions. In particular, it aims to provide the basis for a workable definition of ‘universal access’ and point to concrete steps f...

25 years of regular publishing Iranian Journal of Physics Research has been publishing since 1996. We are giving a short report on this experience and the progress of IJPR.

background: the quantitative analysis of scientific output, scientific policy making, scientific relationships of researchers, and drawing historiographic outlines are all parts of scientometric discipline. this paper was designed for scientometric analysis of 20 top journals in the field of genetics and heredity in 2000-2008 and to map the scientific structure of their papers. methods: this re...

nonnative english-speaking scholars have often been reported to be at a disadvantage vis-à-vis their english native counterparts when it comes to writing a publishable research article (ra). when they submit their manuscripts to english-language journals, they sometimes receive comments criticizing their faulty english. one area of difficulty for these authors is the grammaticalization of neutr...