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. MATERIALS AND METHODS Essential 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 2...

The potentially toxic, diazotrophic filamentous cyanobacterium Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii has recently become a common component in the summer phytoplankton in the St. Johns River (SJR) estuary, Florida, where Anabaena spp. historically dominated. Using a microcosm nutrient enrichment experiment, we investigated the ability of C. raciborskii and Anabaena spp. to compete under a range of ava...

Innovations in dental sciences are potentially disruptive; however, the language barrier case of Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) limits access to scientific studies. There is a necessity measure development research across LAC region, where economic power postgraduate education vary significantly. This article aims analyze documents, citations, journals compare SJR, H-Index, citation rates, C...

Abstract In academic publishing, there is a need to be able discern scholarly from unscholarly, deceptive, and/or predatory journals. Predatory journals are not expected among highly ranked in reputable databases. SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), which ranks into four quartiles (Q1–Q4), acts as whitelist or safelist for journal selection. Q1 SJR-ranked likely “predatory.” An artificial intelligence ...

AIM To analyse current ranking (2013) of institutions, journals and researchers in the Republic of Macedonia. MATERIAL AND METHODS the country rankings of R. Macedonia were analyzed with SCImago Country & Journal Rank (SJR) for subject area Medicine in the years 1996-2013, and ordered by H-index. SCImago Institutions Rankings for 2013 was used for the scientific impact of biomedical instituti...

introduction: today, huge quantity of medical journals with indescribable quality, have confused health researchers while choosing a suitable journal to publish their scientific results. it seems that quality measuring criteria of journals could have solved this problem to some extent. in this study, we studied quality of journals of obstetrics and gynecology field indexed in the valid database...

W hen the multinational media and information company Thomson Reuters recently announced—somewhat later than usual—the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) for 2013, the impact factor of 1.427 represented a 38% increase for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, up from 1.031 for 2012 (Table 1) (1). This is a truly impressive yearly increase by any standard and the journal’s current Editor-in-Chief...

MATERIAL AND METHODS: Affiliation search of the Scopus database was performed on November 23, 2014 in order to identify published papers from the Ss Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje (UC&M), Republic of Macedonia. A total number of 3960 articles (3055 articles from UC&M, 861 articles from Faculty of Medicine, UC&M, and 144 articles from Faculty of Pharmacy, UC&M) were selected for analys...