Molkey Rezaei-Haghighi; Farshid Danesh; Khadijeh Shabankareh; Ali Hamidi
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Introduction: Ideational influence and social influence are among the indicators of scientometrics used to evaluate scientific publications. This study aimed to evaluate and analyze the scientific publications of Iranian researchers in the field of myocardial ischemic diseases indexed in the Scopus citation ...
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Introduction: Ideational influence and social influence are among the indicators of scientometrics used to evaluate scientific publications. This study aimed to evaluate and analyze the scientific publications of Iranian researchers in the field of myocardial ischemic diseases indexed in the Scopus citation database.Methods: The present applied study was conducted through the scientometrics indicators of ideational and social influence. This study also employed the social network analysis to depict a co-author network. The statistical population included 6908 Iranian articles in the field of myocardial ischemic diseases in Scopus database from 2008 to 2017. Bibexcel, Pajek, and Vosviewer were used to analyze the data.Results: Indicators of social influence showed that the average degree of the centrality of myocardial ischemic diseases in Iran was 104.084, the average of the betweenness centrality was 0.061, and the average of the closeness centrality was 0.258. Analysis of the data related to the indicators of intellectual influence revealed that the H, G, and HC indices were 85, 62, and 167, respectively.Conclusion: Despite the fact that quality of publications in the field of myocardial ischemic diseases in Iran is not acceptable, the number of publications in this field is growing. The level of scientific collaboration is not acceptable as well. Conducting scientometrics studies in various fields of medical sciences using indicators such as ideational influence and social influence, and publicizing the results can make medical scientists aware of the real situation and position of their specialty around the world. Awareness of the results of scientific collaboration studies as well as the researchers’ studies introduces active and productive international scientists in the fields of scientific collaboration and the publication of more useful articles.
Syedeh Fatemeh Mortazavi; Razieh Bagherzadeh; Ali Hamidi
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Introduction: Mothers’ health has a special importance due to their responsibility in providing the conditions necessary for their children’s health. This study aimed to investigate the health information needs of mothers of children younger than two years old referred to healthcare centers in Bushehr ...
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Introduction: Mothers’ health has a special importance due to their responsibility in providing the conditions necessary for their children’s health. This study aimed to investigate the health information needs of mothers of children younger than two years old referred to healthcare centers in Bushehr City, Iran.Methods: In this descriptive study, the statistical population constituted of mothers of children under two years old in Bushehr City. Data collection was done using a researcher-made questionnaire whose credibility was measured by content validity and formal validity methods in quantitative and qualitative ways, and its reliability was measured by stability test method (test-retest) and Cronbach’s alpha. Mothers were selected using convenient sampling method. The results were described using descriptive statistics.Results: The most important information needs of mothers regarding their and their children’s health included information of proper behavior toward their new child, other children, and husband. Their first motivation for seeking and obtaining information was their interest in information, and the main sources of data were physicians.Conclusion: Results of this study show that mothers needed information regarding their health and that of their children. This fact shows that current information and trainings given to mothers by healthcare systems is insufficient.
