the aim of this research is to determine the core journals in hamadan university of medical sciences with bradford's law of scattering. survey method, bibliometrics and bradford's law are used in this research. research population consists of all subscribed journals of hamadan university of medical sciences in 2004-006. research results show that 109 journals (74.7 percent of all jour...

background this research analyses the sources of theses of master of science graduated from medical sciences of jundishapur university between 1999-2011 for studying their documents. material and methods the method of research is descriptive and a kind of analyzing documents which are the most known method in bibliometrics studies. statistical analysis used in this study bradford law. results r...

scientific communications network is presented in, sociology of science. and we can use steven's evaluative bibliometrics to map it. in citation network approach, scientist's communication behavior is predicted through their citation behavior. in this paper, first, concepts such as sociology of science, scientific community, scientific communications and its kinds are described. two k...

Historically, researchers have not fully capitalized on the potential synergies that exist between bibliometrics and information retrieval (IR). Knowledge of regularities in information production and use, as well as citation relationships in bibliographic databases that are studied in bibliometrics, can benefit IR system design and evaluation. Similarly, techniques developed for IR and databas...

Bibliometrics has changed out of all recognition since 1958; becoming established as a field, being taught widely in library and information science schools, and being at the core of a number of science evaluation research groups around the world. This was all made possible by the work of Eugene Garfield and his Science Citation Index. This article reviews the distance that bibliometrics has tr...

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INTRODUCTION A pilot study by 6 Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs) explored how bibliometrics can be used to assess research influence. METHODS Evaluators from 6 institutions shared data on publications (4202 total) they supported, and conducted a combined analysis with state-of-the-art tools. This paper presents selected results based on the tools from 2 widely used vendors fo...