bibliometric, and scientometric approaches are used to provide appropriate tools for evaluating scientific products at local, national, and international levels. iran, the same as other countries, has many universities and research centers in the field of engineering that iran's most of the scientific products account for the field of engineering. this study is a descriptive approach using scie...

There seems to be very few signs of the politeness peculiar to Iranians, when considering information ethics in Iranian library and information science scene. An expressed dissatisfaction appears to exist with library services among users studied in some dissertations on user satisfaction in library and information science in Iran. In spite of this fact that might be at least partly related to ...

This Bibliometric study was carried out to investigate the trends in stem cell research in Iran from 1995 to 2010. Original research and review articles were considered and publications were identified with the keyword "stem cell" and an affiliation to an Iranian institution. Data were obtained from the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Science databases and Scopus. We found 491...

UNLABELLED Restriction of free submission of Iranian manuscripts is not a new matter. However, the recent political decision of the USA Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury saying who can and who cannot publish scientific papers in journals is completely against free distribution of data in scholarly and scientific communities and scientific journals and publicatio...

BACKGROUND The journal impact factor is increasingly employed to evaluate the quality of scientific research. This is in contrary to its critical limitations, e.g., its marked variation across scientific disciplines. This study was conducted to describe, in both quantitative and qualitative terms, the contribution of Iranian universities and research institutes to biomedical publications in 200...

OBJECTIVE Because of the great challenges in the diagnosis and treatment of "C" configuration and lack of any systematic information about its occurrence, the purpose of the present study is to determine the prevalence of C shaped root canals in Iranian population. METHODOLOGY An exhaustive search was undertaken to identify published and unpublished researches related to the C-shaped canals b...

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...