This research intends to analyze Iranian Engineering Scientific Outputs during 1990-2008 in the Dialog Database. Dialog is a collection of more than 900 databases that covers also the ISI Science Citation index as SciSearch since 1990. This research has been done by scintometrics method and citation analysis. The number of documents indexed by Iranian writers in Science Citation Index has been 8396. Growth of Scientific outputs in the field of engineering during this period is 24 percent. Kaveh is the most productive author with 82 documents and ASTM is the highest cited author with 120 citations. The highest volume of documents indexed in the dialog related to Chemical Engineering and Electrical Engineering subject categories respectively. Iranian Journal of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering with 348 documents has released the highest number of productions. Among universities and research institutes, Sharif University of Technology has the highest scientific outputs in this area. Articles have the highest percentage of documents published in ISI journal by 97/24 percent and English with 99/8 percent is the main language of the published documents. The highest rate of participation of Iranian writers for publishing documents is with U. S. and Canada respectively.
Iranian Journal of Information Processing and Management (22518223)(1)pp. 269-284
Due to UNIMARC is the basis for the IranMARC format, in this paper all 17 problems identified by Kokabi in 1994 about adoption of UNIMARC in Iran, were compared with IranMARC Manual to find the suggested solutions for them. Because of the international role of MARC21 and UNIMARC, these 17 problems were checked out to reveal if these problems are solved in last update of UNIMARC and if there is any solution for them in MARC21. Eventually with these findings, researchers determined that MARC21 has more adaption with special feature of Persian cataloging and bibliographic features.
Iranian Journal of Information Processing and Management (22518223)28(3)pp. 701-716
This research aims to survey the use rate of Marshall criteria into public relations by the librarians of Arak and Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. It was used the survey-descriptive method respectively. In order to gathering the research data it was used a researcher-made questionnaire this measured the use rate of 7 Marshall criteria (Budgeting, financial resources and gifts, informing the faculties and students, the more use of the library by the university people, improving the general viewpoint of academic community to the library, informing the non-academic community, and the more use of the library by the non-academic community) into public relations. The population included the librarians in the above mentioned universities out of which 86 ones sampled. For the validity, the viewpoints of experts were applied into the questionnaire. For the reliability Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated .987. In order to data analysis the SPSS 16 was used. The findings showed that in opinion of the librarians, applying of the public relations into 7 Marshall criteria was relatively favorable. In order to improving the conditions, experts should hold the educational courses on Public Relations
Iranian Journal of Information Processing and Management (22518223)29(3)pp. 657-684
This study aimed at analyzing the impact and importance of power and electronics patents in technology development. Citation analysis was used as the research method, using the especial formulas of the forward-looking and backwardlooking measures. The research population includes all patents in the field of power and electronics recorded from 1987 to 2006 in the USPTO. Analyzing the importance of patents in knowledge flow and their past and future effect on technology development indicated that at least 10 years should be passed from their release in order to their real effect on technology be seen. The mean of generality grade to determine the effect and application of patents in different subject areas showed that in addition to patents’ effect in electronics field, they have a high tendency to have relations with other subject areas. It was also found that there existed a significant relation between forward and backward looking measures, showing the dependence of future effect of a patent to its backward citations.
Iranian Journal of Information Processing and Management (22518223)31(4)pp. 873-889
Patents, one of the important outputs of science and technology, have a tremendous role in wealth creation from knowledge and knowledge-Based economy. Patents are important indicators of determining the rate of a country progress in creativity development. This study, using scientometrics, identifies core inventors and highly cited (hot) inventions, and investigates the level of co-operation of Iranian inventors with other Iranian and non-Iranian co-operators in international patent databases, including United States Patent and Trademarks (USPT), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), European Patent Office (EPO) and Japanese Patent Office (JPO), between 1970 and 2014. Microsoft Excel has been utilized to analyze the data. Also, Gephi software (8.2 edition) is used in order to depict the related scientific maps. The results of the research showed that the average of all Iranian invention registration in international databases has been 10.8 % per year. The most number and the most cited of inventions are in human necessities categories (agriculture, food stuffs, hygiene, and recreation). Besides, the least number and the least cited inventions are in paper and textiles category. All in all, 1054 Iranian inventors with foreign counterparts have had cooperated to register 475 patents, in which Iranian contribution rate has been 2.2%. The results also indicated that, the invention growth rate in international database had been rising in such a way that in 2014 the most number of inventions had been registered. Additionally, the inventions had been founded on the most prominent necessities of human being.
Tavakolizade ravari, M., Mansouri, A., Makizadeh, F., Tusi, Z.
Publication Date: 2016/11/21
Iranian Journal of Information Processing and Management (22518223)(1)pp. 75-91
The current research aims at studying the epidemic model of the term RFID within the classes of patents. Methodology: The research is descriptive and has been conducted based on the mathematical models of diseases. Research population consists of 35,627 granted patents from the USPTO database those which the terms RFID or Radio Frequency Identification occur in their titles or abstracts. Data analysis was performed through software like Excel, SPSS, and Ravar-Matrix. Findings show that the cumulative growth of sub-classes with the term RFID follows an S-logistic model. This is an evidence of natural growth rate for assigning the term RFID to the USPTO sub-classes over the years. Other finding reveals that the term RFID has been entered into and exited from the sub-classes of patents like the SIS epidemic model of diseases. As a final conclusion, the most technical fields those that are susceptible for RFID technology, have been met this technology. On the base of SIS model, the epidemic of RFID technology has been reached a balance.
Information Sciences and Technology (17355206)22(3)pp. 33-54
The growing number of specialized, scientific journals has made fast, batch identification and retrieval of articles a daunting task for the researchers. Furthermore, the rising cost of journal subscriptions, has deprived many researchers and even small libraries of individual subscriptions. The present research was conducted to assess the importance of establishing a full text database of Persian articles at the library of the faculty of law and political sciences in Shiraz University from the standpoint of the graduate and undergraduate students. Findings demonstrated that the average usefulness of the full-text article databases in students' view, was rated "high", given their experience with databases. About 61% of the respondents stated their "high" and "very high" approval for article digitization. Given the advantages offered by full-text article databases, the approval rating of the respondents have been "high.
Information Sciences and Technology (17355206)25(4)pp. 573-595
The present study determines the co-authorship factor in the Iranian scientific output between 2000 and 2006 as reflected in the science, social science art and humanities citation indexes made available through the Web of Science database. Webometric indicators were used. The data were extracted in plain text from WOS, analyzed using HistCite software and counted in MS Office Excel program. Of the Total of 25320 documents indexed, 24480 documents were in Science Citation Index, 783 in Social Citation Index and 57 in Art and Humanities index. The findings indicated that co-authorship factor in the period studied had been on the rise. The highest participation rate belonged to the documents with two or three authors. General coauthorship factor was 0.59. The year 2006 had the highest coauthorship factor (0.62) while the year 2000 had the least (0.55). Bradford and Lotka laws were applied to the data sets. The Lotka's Law only held true for the science citation index. The Bradford's Law, however, held true for all indexes. In all citation indexes, the United States with 1865 documents (7.38) had the highest degree of coauthorship in Iranian scientific output.
2025 29th International Computer Conference, Computer Society of Iran, CSICC 2025pp. 109-113
This research aims to investigate the citations received by DOAJ's journals from ISI Web of Science's articles in five fields (Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, Pure Sciences, Technology & Engineering, and Health & Medical Sciences) during 2003-2008. It was used bibliometrics and citation analysis. In this research 2953 English-language journals in DOAJ were chosen, and no sampling was used. The research data have been gathered by means of Cited Reference Search in ISI Web of Science and after counting the number of citations in each field the journals were ranked (to the fifth rank) in terms of the number of the received citations. After studying the journals from DOAJ, it was clarified that 321 journals (10.87%) received citations, and these journals totally received 19050 citations. The average number of citations per journal was 6.45. Pure Sciences received most citations (10116 citations equal to 53.1%) and in this field Biology was in the first rank in terms of the number of citations (6009 citations equal to 50.4%) and Arts & Humanities received least citations (701 citations equal to 3.68%) and in this field Geography was in the last rank in terms of the number of citations (25 citations, equal to 3.57%). On the other hand, the Findings of Chi-square test are also indicative that there is a significant difference among the citations in terms of the mentioned-above five fields.
International Journal of Information Science and Management (20088310)9(1)pp. 57-74
In this research, the citations received by DOAJ's journals from the ISI Web of Science's articles in 2003 to 2008 were studied and compared. The citations received by the journals in five fields (Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, Pure Sciences, Technology & Engineering, and Health & Medical Sciences) as well as the difference among the citations received by DOAJ's journals in the abovementioned five fields were examined. The research method is citation analysis and the research data have been collected by means of Cited Reference Search in the ISI Web of Science. The English-language journals in DOAJ were chosen, and no sampling was used. Findings showed that out of 2953 journals, 321 journals (10.87%) received citations, and the total citations received by these journals were 19050 with the mean of 6.45 per journal; the journals in Pure Sciences received most citations (10116 citations, equal to 53.1%), and the ones in Arts & Humanities received the least citations (701 citations, equal to 3.68%). On the other hand, the findings of Chi-Square test (χ2) indicate that there is a significant difference among the citations in the above-mentioned five fields.
Iranian Journal of Information Processing Management (22518231)27(4)pp. 961-984
The present study investigated the analysis of search engines and meta search engines adoption process by University of Isfahan users during 2009-2010 based on the Rogers' diffusion of innovation theory. The main aim of the research was to study the rate of adoption and recognizing the potentials and effective tools in search engines and meta search engines adoption among University of Isfahan users. The research method was descriptive survey study. The cases of the study were all of the post graduate students of the University of Isfahan. 351 students were selected as the sample and categorized by a stratified random sampling method. Questionnaire was used for collecting data. The collected data was analyzed using SPSS 16 in both descriptive and analytic statistic. For descriptive statistic frequency, percentage and mean were used, while for analytic statistic t-test and Kruskal-Wallis non parametric test (H-test) were used. The finding of t-test and Kruscal-Wallis indicated that the mean of search engines and meta search engines adoption did not show statistical differences gender, level of education and the faculty. Special search engines adoption process was different in terms of gender but not in terms of the level of education and the faculty. Other results of the research indicated that among general search engines, Google had the most adoption rate. In addition, among the special search engines, Google Scholar and among the meta search engines Mamma had the most adopting rate. Findings also showed that friends played an important role on how students adopted general search engines while professors had important role on how students adopted special search engines and meta search engines. Moreover, results showed that the place where students got the most acquaintance with search engines and meta search engines was in the university. The finding showed that the curve of adoption rate was not normal and it was not also in S-shape. Morover, among simple and advanced pages of Google, a specific bias toward simple search pages could be seen in users. This part of the study confirmed Rogers' theory. Other results of the study indicated that renouncement of innovation was not only in decision phase. This part of the investigation was in conflict with Rogers' theory.
Shabani, A., Rezaei aderyani r., , Abedi, M., Naderi f.,
Publication Date: 2012
International Journal of Information Science and Management (20088310)10(2)pp. 117-133
Since early 1980s, many empirical studies were carried out to recognize stress syndrome and occupational burnout in the United States libraries; the results indicated that the librarians in other countries are susceptible to these two conditions, as well. The present paper investigates the rate of occupational burnout in librarians of University of Isfahan, and evaluates the educational level, field of study, age, occupational experience, and the position of male and female librarians. The population under study included all the 61 librarians working in the libraries of University of Isfahan. The study was conducted as census. Maslash burnout inventory was handed in to all the librarians, and 57 copies were given back. In order to analyze the data, mean and standard deviation were used for descriptive statistics; also for inductive statistics, we applied t-test and multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) using SPSS 16. The results showed that occupational burnout of librarians in University of Isfahan is at a moderate level in terms of intensity and abundance, while it is at a low level considering emotional exhaustion and depersonalization. There is a relationship between some demographic factors such as occupational burnout and gender (abundance of emotional exhaustion), educational level (depersonalization intensity) and field of study (intensity and abundance of emotional exhaustion), whereas there was no relationship between occupational burnout and age, occupational experience, and librarians' positions. Regarding the obtained results, managers and officials should make appropriate plans to prevent occupational burnout in librarians working in the academic libraries.
Fadaei, G., Fahimnia, F., Hosseini, S.M., Akbari, A.
Publication Date: 2012
Iranian Journal of Information Processing Management (22518231)27(1)pp. 109-126
The project aim was to establish an SDI (Selected Dissemination of Information) service for the faculty members at University of Tehran, faculty of psychology and education. The project was carried out during the 2006-2007 period. First, a three stage survey was conducted to identify the information needs which were then served using a current awareness service over the period. Findings confirmed that the SDI project significantly impacted on the faculty information seeking behavior. Furthermore, there had been evidence supporting the fact that it has also influenced the quality of instruction by facilitating the overall efficacy of information sources collected. It was the intent of researchers to expand this project at later stages to include all humanities faculties in the university and if possible at a national level.
International Journal Of Information Science And Management (20088310)10(1)pp. 1-14
This research attempted to study the reading behavior of graduate students in digital environment at University of Isfahan through 2008-2009. Different elements such as types of electronic resources, reading methods, amounts of note taking, amounts of printing and the advantages of using the electronic resources are being discussed. The paper employs descriptive survey research method to answer the questions. Data needed for research was gathered through a researcher-made questionnaire based on the related literature and Liu's questionnaire (2005). The statistical population used in this research consisted of the graduate students of seven departments in University of Isfahan and stratum random sampling was applied. The findings showed that students make use of different types of electronic resources. They tend to take notes from printed material and print electronic resources. They scan when they read from computer monitors. The highest advantage of reading electronic resources is acquiring update information and remote access while the least significant advantage is the ease of reading on the computer screens.
Iranian Journal of Information Processing Management (22518231)27(4)pp. 921-943
The purpose of this study was to investigate the application rate of post modern management components among managers and librarians in the libraries of Isfahan state universities and the research method was descriptive survey study. The population consisted of 166 managers and librarians in the libraries of Isfahan state universities. Data was gathered using a researcher-made questionnaire and SPSS software was used to analyze the data. The findings showed that the application rate of all the components in the existing situation were lower than the average and in the ideal situation were higher than average. The results of t2 Hotteling showed that the effect of the components in the existing situation and in the ideal situation were not the same. The findings also showed that there was significance in the existing situation based on demographic factors gender and place of work and in the ideal situation based on demographic factors course of study and place of work (p<0.05).
Iranian Journal of Information Processing Management (22518231)28(2)pp. 497-521
This research aimed at investigating the application of strategic management components in libraries of Isfahan University, Isfahan University of Technology, and Isfahan University of Medical Sciences and the research method was descriptive survey study. The population consisted of managers and librarians of academic libraries in Isfahan city(134 persons).To gather the data, a researcher-made questionnaire with 40 questions was used and for the content validity, the face validity and construct validity, the factor analysis of questionnaire using KMO and Bartlett test were estimated 0/89. Using Cronbach's Alpha the reliability of the questionnaire was estimated 0.97. For analyzing the data SPSS software was used.The findings showed the application of components was higher than average except one of the components. The results of t2 Hotteling showed that the effects of all components were nott the same, considering the component ofexchange of information was highest and care about the strategic affairs was the lowest. The findings showed that there was significance based on demographic factors, major and type of work. But no significance difference was seen based on demographic factors, university, type of library, and years in service (p<0.05).
Iranian Journal of Information Processing Management (22518231)30(1)pp. 269
Because UNIMARC is the basis for Iran MARC format, in this paper all 17 problems identified by Kokabi in 1994 about adoption of UNIMARC in Iran, were compared with Iran MARC Manual to find the suggested solutions for them. Because of the international role of MARC 21 and UNIMARC, these 17 problems were checked out to reveal if these problems are solved in the last update of UNIMARC and if there is any solution for them in MARC 21. Eventually with these findings, researchers determined that MARC 21 has more adaption with special features of Persian cataloging and bibliographic features.
International Journal Of Information Science And Management (20088310)14(1)pp. 83-93
To meet their informationa needs, people use different tools and technologies which are called the individuals' information grounds. However, the literature on information grounds is limited to the United States; and there is no research comparing the information grounds of students in Iran so far. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to analyze the information grounds of students in Payame Noor University of Kermanshah. The total population of full-time students in Kermanshah Payame Noor University at the time of this study was about 6000. Using stratified random sampling technique, 361 students were selected to participate in this survey. A questionnaire survey was used to carry out the study. Findings revealed that the most common information grounds used were as follows: house of friends and relatives, university campus, and bus service. Also, the main reasons for using these information grounds are: presence of expert individuals, relaxed grounds, ease of communication with people in the ground, and enhancing the scope of personal knowledge and experience by exchanging information in that ground. The results indicated that there was a significant correlation between the socioeconomic status of students and type of information grounds. Moreover, it was found that there was a significant difference in male and female students' views regarding the reasons for using such grounds.
Iranian Journal of Information Processing Management (22518231)29(3)pp. 593
There are different theories on information as Shannon's Information or Communication Theory, Semantic Theory of Information, Cybernetics Theory, Quantum Theory of Information and Quantum Information Theory, each one viewing information from a different point. In this paper researchers used the foundamental concepts of quantum physics such as Wave/Particle duality, Complementarity, Uncertainty principle, Schrödinger's cat &so on to explain the nature of information and its role in information environments & flows. These concepts were introduced sequentially and Quantum Theory of Information was interpreted eventually.
International Journal Of Information Science And Management (20088310)13(1)pp. 21-38
This research examines the association between co-authorship network centrality (degree, closeness, betweenness, eigenvector, Bonacich flow betweenness) and productivity of Information science researchers. The research population includes all those researchers who have published at least one record in one of the twenty journals of Information Science which has an impact factor of 0.635 as a minimum from the years 1996 to 2010. By using social network analyses, this study examines information science researchers' outputs during 1996-2011 in ISI Web of Science database. In general co-authorship network of these researchers was analyzed by UCINET6 software. Results showed that there is a significant correlation between Journal Impact Factor (JIF) and all centrality measures except closeness centrality at P= 0.001. Results also showed that there is a significant correlation between productivity of authors and all centrality measures scores at P≥ 0.001. Also, regression reports direct relationship of degree, closeness and flow betweenness and inverse relationship of betweenness as well as Eigen vector centrality on productivity of researchers.
