8 articles in this issue
Jafar Mehrad
Ladies and GentlemenGood morningAt the outset of my speech, I’d like to personally welcome all the respected attendees, from our home country Iran and abroad, respected invitees from ISESCO and the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, researchers... see more
Shaukat Ali Jawaid
Despite criticism and allegations of suppressing innovative ideas, Peer Review is widely cited as central in evaluation of manuscripts submitted to journals for publication. Peer Reviewers along with editors who are known as gatekeepers help improve the q... see more
Wah Yun Low,Wen Ting Tong,Veenah Gunasegaran
International research collaboration is when researchers from various nations working together to achieve the common goal of producing new scientific knowledge and internationally co-authored papers are used to measure collaborative international research... see more
Mohammad Reza Ghane
Scholarly communication as a social activity needs rethinking since this process is in the monopoly of commercial publishers. Authors and their institutions as well as librarians had been working to achieve unrestricted access to research output. In this ... see more
Sholeh Arastoopoor
Review articles are considered to act as a solution for the information overload problem, especially in different scientific fields. The purpose of a good review is to supply reasoned and developed arguments, which is an indispensable ingredient in scient... see more
Hamid Alizade
Journal performance metrics are designed to help users know the best journals in different scientific fields. In this article, some journals indexed in ISC database are compared using Scopus and ISC performance indicators. The Scopus journal analyzer uses... see more
Hajar Safahieh
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 Pers... see more
Bahareh Pahlevanzadeh
This paper presents XML-based Journal Submission System (XML-based JSS) a and ß as one of the RICeST tools for the ease of journal submission process by users. XML-based JSS version ß is a derivative version of the XML-based JSS version a by improving the... see more