writing an academic article requires the researchers to provide support for their works by learning how to cite the works of others. various studies regarding the analysis of citation in m.a theses have been done, while little work has been done on comparison of citations among elt scopus journal articles, and so the dearth of research in this area demands for further investigation into citatio...

پژوهش حاضر به روش توصیفی و با هدف تحلیل استنادی ماخذ مقالات نشریات علوم پزشکی انگلیسی زبان ایران و تعیین میزان دسترسی رایگان به متن کامل مجلات استناد شده در آنها از طریق سایتهای اینترنت انجام گرفته است. جامعه پژوهش شامل کل استنادهای مقالات دوره 2000 سه نشریه ‏‎medical journal‎‏ ، ‏‎iranian journal of medical sciences‎‏، ‏‎acta medica iranica of islsmic republic of iran‎‏ بوده که این مجلات دارای...

Background and Aim: Citation is one of the journals ranking factors. Self-Citation rates regarding journals `performance, especially in international databases, is important. The aim of this study is to examine the effect of Journal self-Citation on Impact Factor of Iranian English medical journals indexed in the Web of Science and Islamic World Science Citation Center. Materials and Methods: ...

the purpose of this study was to examine the english language needs of medical students at tehran university of medical sciences . analysis of the needs took place for three groups: 320 undergraduate students, 30 postgraduate students and 20 university instructors. a triangulation approach to collect data was used in which a combination of the quantitative (using the questionnaires) and qualita...

plagiarism in esl/efl learning contexts has been established as a dynamic and multi-layered phenomenon and has become a topic engaging many researchers in a heated debate in recent years. comparisons of student-generated texts with their source texts have shown that students rely on source texts in their writings and copying is a major strategy used by both l1 and l2 writers. in our country a...

Background: Impact factor is still a suitable index of evaluating effectiveness of medical journals. The present study was designed to determine the impact factor and immediacy index of Persian medical journals in order to aware authors and librarians of journals status. Materials and methods: For this analytical study, impact factor of 38 Persian medical journals (of 90 approved medical journ...