Document Type : Narrative Review
Authors
1 Assistant Professor, Library and Information Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
2 PhD Student, Health Information Management, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
Since increasing the number of indexing and abstracting services covering a journal would increase the total citations received by the journal, this study tried to investigate the reasons why Iranian journals are not indexed by foreign databases including ISI Web of Science and Scopus. This was a descriptive and interpretative study resulting in guidelines for Iranian editors and authors. It also made the comparison between Iranian journals possible. The results of the study showed that Iranian journals are not well-indexed by foreign databases and search engines due to lack of standard interfaces, low-quality content, delay in publication and poor review. Editors of Iranian journals should consider international journal publishing standards and ask foreign indexing and abstracting services (ISI Web of Science, Scopus, etc.) and search engines (for example Google Scholar) to index Iranian journals. Keywords: Periodicals; Indexing; Databases; Iran.
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