this article deals with the establishment of the islamic world science citation center (isc) as the first citation system in the islamic countries. it attempts to describe the mapping of isc the way it has been established. at the time being, isc has begun to evaluate the research performance of the islamic countries. the required research journals from the islamic countries are being collected...

INTRODUCTION Citation analysis is currently one of the most widely used metrics for analyzing the scientific contribution in different fields. The Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) aims at promoting technical cooperation among Muslim scientists and their respected centers based on these theories. It also facilitates the accessibility of knowledge and research contribution among them. ...

Shiraz (Islamic Republic of Iran): Islamic World Science Citation Center in Shiraz in collaboration with ISESCO hosted the First International meeting of Research Journal Editors at ISC campus on October 23-24th 2012. It was attended by a select gathering of Research Journal Editors in different subjects from many Islamic countries including Malaysia, Iraq, Egypt, Pakistan, and Bangladesh besid...

the purpose of this study was to evaluate the web pages of islamic world science citation center (isc), the islamic countries sci using nielsen`s heuristic principles and was performed during september 2012. among nielsen`s 10 usability heuristic principles, five were covered. five professional evaluators were asked to evaluate the database using nielsen`s five criteria. the total average of se...

background: in this study, the impact of self-citation (journal and author) on impact factor of iranian english medical journals in two international citation databases, web of science (wos) and islamic world science citation center (isc), were compared by citation analysis. methods: twelve journals in wos and 26 journals in isc databases indexed between the years (2006-2009) were selected and ...

this article gives an overview of the islamic world science citation center's (isc) journal citation reports (jcr) database. isc-jcr is the only source of citation data on islamic countries’ leading journals and covers journals in english, arabic and persian languages. it provides information on highest impact journals in a field, the most cited journals and hottest journals. this database allo...

Shiraz (Islamic Republic of Iran): Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) organized the Second International Conference of Chief Editors of Research Journals at the ISC Campus here on December 1st and 2nd 2014. It was attended by Chief Editors and representatives from Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and Malaysia besides Iran. After the welcome address by Dr. M.R. Falahati from the Regional ...

BACKGROUND In this study, the impact of self-citation (Journal and Author) on impact factor of Iranian English Medical journals in two international citation databases, Web of Science (WoS) and Islamic world science citation center (ISC), were compared by citation analysis. METHODS Twelve journals in WoS and 26 journals in ISC databases indexed between the years (2006-2009) were selected and ...