Mohamad Ali Sahmedini; Zoleikha Mahmoudi; Shirin Dehghan
Volume 11, Issue 3 , September 2014, , Pages 316-325
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Introduction: Evaluation of scientific output of research centers could help in recognizing active centers, plus establishing a guideline in fair distribution of budget and human resources. The goal of this study is evaluation of scientific output of research centers through identifying scientometrics ...
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Introduction: Evaluation of scientific output of research centers could help in recognizing active centers, plus establishing a guideline in fair distribution of budget and human resources. The goal of this study is evaluation of scientific output of research centers through identifying scientometrics indices in Scopus citation index. Methods: This study has been done in a cross-sectional descriptive survey. Data has been collected through direct observation and all indexed documents of shiraz medical university (with research center affiliation) in scopus has been surveyed by the end of 2010 and five scientometrics indices was calculated for them . Results:"Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry" Research Center has the most number of documents (169) and citations (589). The highest h-index and g index is for "shiraz institute for cancer research" and "hematology" research center and "Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry" Research Center (h=11, g=17). The highest R-index also is for "Hematology" Research Center” with 16 value and and highest A-index (with the value 25.75) for "Gastroenterohepatology" Research Center. The most value for m-index is for "Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry" Research Center ( m=1.571). Conclusion: Comprehensive evaluation could be done with calculating more than one scientometric indices. also the amount value of the A-index and R-index are the same for all the research centers. These two indices increase and decrease in the same manner. Keywords: Scientometrics; Research Centers; Databases; Universities
Shirin Dehghan; Zoleikha Mahmudi; Mohammad Ghasempour
Volume 10, Issue 6 , December 2012, , Pages 810-818
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Introduction: Scientific documents indexed in citation indices could show the scientific production of an academic institution if the author introduces him/her as a member of that institution. Researchers and faculty members should know about their standard and correct affiliation to declare it in their ...
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Introduction: Scientific documents indexed in citation indices could show the scientific production of an academic institution if the author introduces him/her as a member of that institution. Researchers and faculty members should know about their standard and correct affiliation to declare it in their articles. Nonstandard affiliation could make problems in counting scientific production which can lead to unrealistic wrong place in universities ranking. Identifying scientific documents with wrong affiliation could help the university to correct them in order to reflect more realistic view of scientific production. Methods: This study has been done in a cross-sectional descriptive survey. Research community was 761 documents produces by researchers of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences which is indexed with nonstandard affiliation in Scopus and Web of Science till 2011. As a keyword, "Shiraz" was searched in "affiliation" field in both citation indices. All the documents with nonstandard affiliation were assessed according to their number of citation, subject and type of documents. The results were analyzed with descriptive statistic methods and Excel software. Results: Publication trend of documents were ascending till 2008 and 2009 and then descending. Most of these documents have been cited between zero to 10 times, the least one has a number of 51 to 60 citations. The highest numbers of these documents are original articles. Conclusion: Presence of significant number of documents with nonstandard affiliation shows importance of establishing of accurate policies for the integration of the organization's name and detailed information to investigators to prevent the continuation of this trend. Fortunately however, this trend has been declining in recent years, which may reflect establishment of such a policy and pay attention to this matter. Keywords: Citation; Indexes; Universities; Data Bases; Web of Science; Scopus
