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...

AbstractObjectives When the probability of being cited depends on outcome that study, this is called citation bias. The aim study to assess determinants and how these compare across six different biomedical research fields. Study Design Setting Citation network analyses were performed for questions. After identifying all relevant publications, potential citations mapp...

this study investigates correlation between journal self – citation and impact factor in agriculture and veterinary subject category through the scientific journals indexed in isc's pjcr during 2001 to 2007. citation analysis is used to conduct the research. the results indicate a significant correlation between impact factor and journal self – citation (r=0.425, sig= 0.000); that is, journals ...

background the impact factor (if), as the most important criterion for journal’s quality measurement, is affected by the self-citation and number of publications in each journal. objectives to find out the relationship between the number of publications and self-citations in a journal, and their correlations with if. materials and methods self-citations and impact factors of nine top gastroente...

purpose: aiming at the examination of undergraduate student citation behavior, this essay studied the effect of class year, academic discipline and the students' course level components upon the citation behavior and the numbers and the type of citation, as well. methodology: this research conducted in bucknell university in 2002. it was done in field study using 583 bibliography referred ...