Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 Medical Library and Information Sciences, Faculty of Management and Medical Information, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
2 Medical Library and Information Sciences, Vice Chancellery of Research and Technology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
3 Medical Library and Information Sciences, Faculty of Nursery and Midwifery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Abstract
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
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