Governments sometimes need to analyse sets of research papers within a field in order to monitor progress, assess the effect of recent policy changes, or identify areas of excellence. They may compare the average citation impacts of the papers by dividing them by the world average for the field and year. Since citation data is highly skewed, however, simple averages may be too imprecise to robu...

A dataset containing 111,616 documents in astronomy and astrophysics has been created and is being partitioned by several research groups using different algorithms. In this paper, rather than partitioning the dataset directly, we locate the data in a previously created model in which the full Scopus database was partitioned. Given that the other research groups are partitioning the data direct...

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BACKGROUND We conducted a comprehensive bibliometrics analysis to calculate the H, G, M, A and R indicators for all Iranian biomedical research centers (IBRCs) from the output of ISI Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus between 1991 and 2010. We compared the research performance of the research centers according to these indicators. METHODS This was a cross-sectional and descriptive-analytical stu...

background citation analysis as one of the most widely used methods of bibliometrics can be used for computing the various impact measures for scholars based on data from citation databases. journal citation reports (jcr) from thomson reuters provides annual report in the form of impact factor (if) for each journal. objectives we aimed to evaluate the citation parameters of hepatitis monthly by...

As the leading section in a research article (RA), introduction typically leaves lasting impression on reader. It is thus necessary to make well-crafted and organized writing of successful RAs. However, lack studies has paid attention rhetorical moves non-Scopus Scopus RA introductions linguistics area. Therefore, present study first investigated realization essentiality steps from both corpora...