Marzieh Morovati; Amir Hossein Seddighi
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Introduction: When a website has an appropriate information architecture, it can be efficient and successful in responding to the information needs of users. The present study aims to evaluate website of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran, based on information architecture.Methods: This ...
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Introduction: When a website has an appropriate information architecture, it can be efficient and successful in responding to the information needs of users. The present study aims to evaluate website of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran, based on information architecture.Methods: This was a descriptive-survey study performed on Shiraz University of Medical Sciences website. Data collection and analysis were carried out by direct observation method using checklists for four subsystems of information architecture, namely organization, labeling, navigation, and search.Results: The overall organization of the website was based on the organization chart. The site navigation system showed the users which website they were navigating, but it did not explicitly show all the navigated levels. Although the search system displayed the total number of search results to the user and highlighted the input query in the retrieved content, many of its features as logical operators, auto-complete or auto-suggestions, and sorting search results were not active.Conclusion: The website is relatively poor from the information architecture standpoint. The search and organization dimensions were weak, and the labeling and navigation dimensions were mediocre. The results of continuous evaluation and study of the website information architecture can be used to optimize the website design while highlighting the existing weaknesses and shortcomings.
Hajar Sotudeh; Marzieh, Morovati
Volume 9, Issue 6 , March 2012, , Pages 833-847
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Introduction: The issues of patient rights have recently been entered into medical and legal realms andhave attracted the attention of scholars. This field, which is in early stages of development, requiresstudying the patterns and characteristics of its scientific production and its compatibility with ...
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Introduction: The issues of patient rights have recently been entered into medical and legal realms andhave attracted the attention of scholars. This field, which is in early stages of development, requiresstudying the patterns and characteristics of its scientific production and its compatibility with the globalnorms of the worlds’ sciences. The present study aimed to investigate the scientific productivity and itsimpact patterns on patient rights during 1990-2010. Hence, it endeavors to discover their growth trend,local and global impact, the most productive contributing countries, authors and journals, document types,dominant languages, highly cited authors, and finally Iran's share. It may help to reflect the progress ofknowledge and its patterns and also highlight the weaknesses and strengths, and thereby be useful inmanaging and planning research and development in this field.Methods: The present study applied a survey method with a scientometrics approach. All the scientificproductions indexed by the Thomson Reuters database during 1990-2010 constituted the study materials.A total number of 1236 records were extracted. The data were analyzed through Excel and ThomsonReuters HistCite software, using descriptive and analytical statistics including frequency, percentage,Spearman correlation, and linear, power and exponential regressions analysis.Results: The maximum scientific output production in this field has been published during 2006-2010. Theyshowed an increasing trend on an exponential basis, illustrating the sustainability of scientific production inthis field. However, the citation number did not show a significant growth. This could be resulted from thesmall size of this field and its related domains. The total global impact was lower than the total local impactimplying that the papers were rather an inspiration source for other related fields than an intra-field source.Authorship pattern adhered to Lotka's law in that the number of authors decreased as their publicationsincrease on a power basis. However, the exponent equation is higher than two. The global distribution of thepapers and their language variations signified the world's concerns for patient rights.Conclusion: The patient rights exhibits many similarities to scientific fields and its publication foundationis being established and stabilized: the exponential growth of the papers, their language and documentvariation, global distribution, and specially its research nature indicated the development of this field as aresearch realm.
