11 articles in this issue
Mojgan Houshyar,Hajar Sotudeh
Google Scholar has recently attracted great attentions as an open access multidisciplinary citation database, and a tool for retrieving scientific works for scientometricians and researchers. The present research intended to highlight the limitations brou... see more
Mohammad Reza Keyvanpour,Zahra Karimi Zandian,Zahra Abdolhosseini
Query expansion is a method for improving retrieval performance by supplementing an original query with additional terms. This process improves the quality of search engine results and helps users to find the required information. In the recent years... see more
Hamid Keshavarz,Saleh Rahimi
AbstractThe current paper aimed to explore how image indexing and annotating could improve image retrieval via site operator command. Also was among the goals of the study to compare the effectiveness of different codes assigned to sample images in retrie... see more
Nosrat Riahinia,Forough Rahimi,Maryam Jahangiri,Saideh Mirhaghjoo,Fatemeh Alinezhad
The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between traditional citation indexes representing hot papers in the field of “Clinical Medicine” and their bookmarking and readership in “Mendeley software”. The citation counts of hot papers were ex... see more
Naser Sadeghian
The purpose of this research is to analyze and map the production of the Quranic sciences field at the international level indexedin the WoS database during the period 2000 to 2017 using the VOSviewer software to illustrate the results.Descriptive - analy... see more
Fayaz Ahmad Loan,Ufaira Yaseen Shah
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a discovery service for open access e-books. It provides a searchable index to peer-reviewed e-books published under an open access business model. The present study aims to assess the scientometric trends of t... see more
Sanjay Kumar Maurya,Akhandanand Shukla,R K Ngurtinkhuma
Study analyses scientometric assessment of LIS research performance of OPEC member countries. The research publication data indexed in Scopus for the OPEC member countries were extracted and used for the analysis. The data are analyzed to identify quantit... see more
Wan Ahmad Rhiza’ adni B Wan Abdul Aziz Abdul Aziz
This paper describes the framework used in a study to formulate the requirements for the design and implementation of a knowledge sharing for project-based education. Green Open Access Information is popular among researchers to access information in shar... see more
Sara Dakhesh,Shahnaz Pouladi,Afshin Ostovar,Bahareh Yazdizadeh,Ali Hamidi
Nowadays, it is essential that researchers operationalize their research evidence with the help of knowledge brokers in proper communication with stakeholders and make such pieces of evidence applicable. The present study aims at psychometric of the self-... see more
Oranus Tajedini,Ali Sadatmoosavi,Yousef Esfandiarpour
This study aimed at evaluating the feasibility of identification, extraction, organization and sharing of personal knowledge of Kerman public librarians. This study was a qualitative one based on grounded theory. The research population consisted of all k... see more
Saeideh Ebrahimy,Fatemeh Setareh
This study aimed to assess the paths through which save metrics (on CiteULike, Mendeley, and Figshare) and discussion metrics (on Twitter, Facebook, and Wikipedia) influence citation. This descriptive-correlation study investigates the relationships betwe... see more