Ali Mansouri; Marjan Forouzandeh-Shahraki; Mohammad Amin Erfanmanesh
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Introduction: One of the indicators of research outputs of universities is assessment of the capability to of transferring knowledge to technology via assessment of citedness of scholarly outputs by patents. Current research aimed to investigate the status and factors associated with the citedness of ...
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Introduction: One of the indicators of research outputs of universities is assessment of the capability to of transferring knowledge to technology via assessment of citedness of scholarly outputs by patents. Current research aimed to investigate the status and factors associated with the citedness of scholarly outputs by patents in Scopus for the type 1 medical science universities of Iran during 2000-2015 period.Methods: Research population comprised of all scholarly output published by eight type 1 Iranian medical science universities (Tehran, Shahid Beheshti, Shiraz, Isfahan, Tabriz, Mashhad, Ahwaz, and Kerman) in Scopus database during 2000-2015 period. Data were collected from Elsevier’s SciVal. Moreover, data analysis was conducted using descriptive correlation statistics.Results: Of 76111 studied publications, 998 scientific outputs were cited 3145 times from patents. Citedness rate of medical science universities’ scholarly output were found to be higher than the average rate of Iran (0.39%), but lower than the international average rate (1.1%). The highest and lowest shares of cited publications by patents were seen in the Tehran University of Medical Sciences (1.53%) and Tabriz University of Medical Sciences (0.58%), respectively. Results of running a series of multiple linear regression tests showed that four indicators, namely Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP), SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), total number of publication’s authors, and total number of publication’s contributing institutions had statistically significant impacts on possibility of citedness of scholarly outputs by patents.Conclusion: In addition to the topic and practical nature of the scholarly output, results of the study showed that research collaboration, as well as publishing in high quality journals, has an impact on getting cited by patents.
Abdolrasoul Khosravi; Atefeh Esfandiari; Mehri Otaghi
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Introduction: As physicians have not sufficient time for updating their clinical information, medical librarians could play an important role to satisfy their needs. This study aimed to identify the obstacles towards the role-playing of medical librarians in facilitating the scientific communications ...
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Introduction: As physicians have not sufficient time for updating their clinical information, medical librarians could play an important role to satisfy their needs. This study aimed to identify the obstacles towards the role-playing of medical librarians in facilitating the scientific communications among physicians and paramedical practitioners based on the viewpoint of medical professionals in Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran.Methods: This qualitative study was conducted using semi-structured interviews. Interviews were continued until all relevant themes and domains saturated. Sampling was done purposefully. In this study, 10 physicians and paramedical practitioners were chosen to ask the questions.Results: According to the interviews, five barriers were identified entitled attitude, individual, structural, technical, and organizational aspects towards the role-playing of medical librarians in facilitating the scientific communications among physicians and paramedical practitioners. The most important obstacle was a personal obstacle.Conclusion: Using the results of this research and the identified challenges, it is possible to use the structural and organizational reforms as well as changes in attitudinal and behavioral factors to facilitate the scientific communication between physicians and paramedical staff of the Shohada of Persian Gulf Hospital in Bushehr. The results of this study can be used to solve the organizational problems of libraries. Moreover, this research can be used to formulate a plan for personal training of medical librarians.