Ali Norouzi; Parastoo Parsaei-Mohammadi; Ehsan Geraei; Firoozeh Zare-Farashbandi
Fatemeh Baji; Fereydoun Azadeh; Parastoo Parsaei-Mohammadi; Shoukat Parmah
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Introduction: Creating an image of the conceptual structure of health literacy area, as well as the study of interdisciplinary and the relationship between its domains seems necessary. The present study examined the intellectual structure of health literacy area in Web of Science database using co-word ...
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Introduction: Creating an image of the conceptual structure of health literacy area, as well as the study of interdisciplinary and the relationship between its domains seems necessary. The present study examined the intellectual structure of health literacy area in Web of Science database using co-word analysis.Methods: This was a scientometrics research and bibliometric study, carried out using co-word analysis method. Social network analysis was used for this purpose. The research community compiled all the relevant scientific literature on the field of health literacy in Web of Science during the years 1993-2017. For data analysis, network integrity and centrality indices were used.Results: Clustering co-efficient (7.17) and network density (0.58) were high in the resulted network. Moreover, the intellectual structure of this domain consisted of eight subject clusters. Health care, psychiatry and psychology, public health, social sciences, communications, health services, and medical education had the highest levels of centrality throughout the entire network.Conclusion: The results show that the intellectual structure of the health literacy domain in general has an integrate structure with a proper relationship between its concepts and subjects. This shows the essence of this area, which is able to establish a consistent and sustained relationship with the social sciences and humanities as a branch of medical science. Finally, the results of this study will help health literacy researchers to understand the research trend of this area in future studies based on the identified areas of influence.
Firoozeh Zare Farashbandi; Parastoo Parsaei Mohammadi; Ehsan Geraei; Morteza Amraei
Volume 9, Issue 5 , November and December 2012, , Pages 632-645
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AbstractIntroduction: Quantitative evaluations are considered as one of the appropriate criteria inaccepting or rejecting the selection of information resources in libraries. Through theseassessments, one can evaluate how much the selected resources meet the needs of the users. Thepresent study aimed ...
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AbstractIntroduction: Quantitative evaluations are considered as one of the appropriate criteria inaccepting or rejecting the selection of information resources in libraries. Through theseassessments, one can evaluate how much the selected resources meet the needs of the users. Thepresent study aimed to review the cost-benefit analysis of the Persian books on Department ofLibrary and Information Sciences in Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahwaz, Iran.Methods: This cross-sectional survey described the current situation, evaluated how much thebooks in the field of Library and Information Science are used and did a cost-benefit analysis ofthese books in Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences in Ahwaz. The study populationincluded all the Persian books related to the Library and Information Sciences at the aforesaiduniversity's libraries. Data collection tool was a researchers-made checklist, and the data werecollected using the Library software. Descriptive statistics and cost-benefit formula were used foranalyzing the data.Results: Findings showed that average total cost for using each of the books once wasapproximately 4589 Iranian Rial rate (IRR) which was considered to be a relatively high price.The lowest cost for using each book once was related to those published in 2002 (2913 IRR) andthe highest cost for using each book once was related to those published in 2005 (31413 IRR).Cost-benefit analysis of the books showed that the lowest cost-benefit was for the books relatedto the "library collection" (755 IRR), then in a growing rate for books related to the "references"(2777 IRR), "library management" (2877 IRR) and "organizing" (5693 IRR).Conclusion: The cost-benefit analysis showed that use of each of these books every time isexpensive and is not affordable for the libraries. The Persian books related to the "librarycollection" had a higher rate of use by the users than other books in the field of Library andInformation Sciences, and therefore have been more affordable.
