Iranian Journal of Information Processing and Management (22518223)39(1)pp. 63-100
Considering the function of humanities and its comparison with other sciences, this research seeks to examine the scientific outputs and the weight of each evaluation criteria and indicators, and the relationship between each output and criteria in the evaluation of these sciences especially in language and literature. In terms of purpose, the research is applied, and in terms of the research implementation process it is of a sequential and exploratory type. The steps of the work are as follows: 1. Identification and weighting of scientific outputs through the three steps of the library method, conducting interviews, and the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP); 2. Identifying the evaluation criteria of scientific outputs with the library method; and 3. determining priorities for evaluating scientific outputs through concurrent function deployment (CFD). Based on the findings, scientific outputs were divided into two categories: 1. Formats: scientific journal article, conference article, book, research project, and dissertation/thesis; 2. Activity: in policy-making, social (scientific-promotional), social (media), and economic contexts. Evaluation criteria are also divided into 8 categories: platform for creation, presentation and publication; writing structure; content; impact in online environment; scientific impact; social impact; economic impact; and cultural impact, each of which includes indicators. Finally, outputs and criteria have been prioritized according to three approaches and goals: production of science and promotion of knowledge foundations, applicability and responsiveness to society’s problems, literary creation/creative literature. Considering the importance and necessity of different evaluation of each field and discipline according to the nature of each one as an effective factor on the application and effectiveness of their scientific outputs, research policy makers can use a new approach in decision-making and establishing policies for evaluating the scientific outputs of the language and literature fields and humanities according to the results.
Aghakishizadeh, V., Asemi, A., Shabani, A., Asemi, A.
Iranian Journal of Information Processing and Management (22518223)38(4)pp. 1155-1226
The concept of information intelligence encompasses various aspects such as information and communication skills, information literacy, information behavior, individual and collective creativity, intelligence, and cognitive-perceptual issues. Measuring information intelligence is very important in information societies. Addressing the effective indicators in this issue is one of the determining issues in the use of information and data in information societies. The present study aimed to identify indicators and measures effective in measuring information intelligence. The research is applied and uses a qualitative method including library studies, content analysis, and analysis of expert opinions. Data collection tools included the study of scientific literature related to the subject, content-coding, and interviews with experts familiar with the subject of information intelligence (8 experts in knowledge and information science and 7 experts in psychology). The research population included related published literature related to scientific theories, information science experts, and psychology experts. In the subject of intelligence, Gardner's multiple intelligence theory has been used, and in the subject of information-seeking behavior various scientific theories have been used. Based on the research findings, 14 indicators and 97 measures were identified as effective for measuring information intelligence in two dimensions management and information retrieval. Finally, a proposed framework is presented for measuring information intelligence. From the findings, it was concluded that in the information society, policymakers and managers of the organization or responsible organizations in relation to increasing the level of information intelligence of the society should consider the specific strategies of the information intelligence of the society in formulating their general strategies. One of these strategic goals can be increasing the level of information intelligence of individuals, organizations, and society. To do this, effective indicators must be identified for measuring and strategies to increase the level of information intelligence of the target community. It is suggested that this matter is placed in the priorities of the information society and the native measurement tool of information intelligence can be prepared based on the findings of this research
Movahedian, G., Shabani, A., Cheshmesohrabi, M., Asemi, A.
Iranian Journal of Information Processing and Management (22518223)37(3)pp. 781-806
The emergence of social networks and phenomena such as tagging have led to changes in the structure, language, and content of information. The purpose of this study was to analysis of discourse of digital information organization in social tagging. Discourse analysis by Laclau and Mouffe's was used as a research method. LibraryThing were chosen with purposive sampling. End-user as a nodal point located in the center of semantic systems of digital information discourse, language, cataloging, and members were elements articulated around the end-user. Popularity, commonness, participatory, locality, relativeness, fluidity and independence from professional catalogers and standards of cataloging were identified as features of cataloging. Easiness, unlocality, flatness and lack of specific precondition were the features of membership in this database. Language and narration of end-users were a dominate in this database but language and narration of elite in modern discourse of traditional library organization was marginalized. Tags are an important phenomenon for presentation of the user language and construction of the database. Uncontrolled, relative, non-standard, unofficial and de-authorized languages of end–users provide suitable status for deconstructive interpretations from the texts in LibraryThing. Classification, updatness, being free and non-profit were the moments of information organization discourse in LibraryThing. Features of modern discourse of information organization such as obsolescence, hierarchical, authoritarianism are rejecting to the field of discursivity. Discourse of digital information organization articulation stands in contrast to modern systems of information organization in libraries.
Saadat, R., Shabani, A., Asemi, A., Sohrabi, M.C., Ravari, M.T.
Iranian Journal of Information Processing and Management (22518223)38(1)pp. 109-138
This research aims to verify the patterns of users' tagging to the articles of knowledge and information science field in academia.edu. The research method is quantitative and based on text mining and applicable typically. The population includes 6086 bibliographic articles and their abstracts extracted from 159 English journals of knowledge and information science field in Scopus database that are core journals in LISTA as well. In order to gather these data, 194337 articles were searched in academia.edu then every article that tagged was chosen. Examining the relationship between the growth of different types of tags (one-word, two-word, three-word, and four-word and more) and increasing of documents showed a linear correlation between them. Among the different groups of tags, the highest growth rate was related to two-word tags (.609%) and the lowest growth rate was related to four-word tags and more (.143%). The total growth rate of the tags (new and duplicate) was also 5.52 (i.e. 5.52 tags per document). It was also found that two-word tags had the most matching (54.92%) and four-word tags and the least matching (1.76%) with different sections of articles (title, abstract, and authors' keywords). The total tags were matched 7.5% with the title, 76.61% with the abstract, and 15.89% with the authors' keywords. Regarding the reuse of tags, it was revealed that in general, 38.8% of the tags have been reused. On the other hand, two-word tags with 57.59% had the most reuse and four-word tags and more with 7.54% had the least. Another point is that 16% of the tags were reused in the first year and more than 50% of the tags were reused in the first 3 years. Finally, it can be said that the existence of a significant user consensus on certain terms indicates that the new patterns of user tags are at least partially compatible with professional indexing concepts about document content, and by focusing on the most widely used tags and their sustainable distribution, weight formulation and even classification schemes may be achieved. Also, users' activities on social networks can be used to increase the quality of suggestions in collective tagging systems. Another point is that there is a connection between professional indexing and user tagging, and the two are not alien to each other. This connectivity can be the basis for a complementary subject access system that enriches professional indexing.
Iranian Journal of Information Processing and Management (22518223)35(3)pp. 817-846
Theoretical foundations and philosophical basis of library classification systems have always been important for information science professionals. This research studies the philosophical foundations and logical basis of the classification systems and structure of human knowledge and studies the logical basis of library classifications Scheme. Challenges and problems of traditional ideas about knowledge organization and its hierarchical structure have been studied and rhizomatic thought has been proposed as an alternative model for the tree and hierarchical structure especially for the organization of digital and hypertext information on the web. In Western thought, the tree structure based on Aristotelian logic has been the dominant model of classification and due to its problems, the rhizomatic structure is suggested. Information structure in digital space such as rhizomes moves in many directions and creates a multiplicity of connections and relations. The growth and emergence of interdisciplinary studies can be seen as evidence. Traditional, tree-based and hierarchical discourse of information organization isn’t enabled to understand the nature and characteristics of the digital information space and so to organize it. Necessarily to a paradigm shift, rhizomatic thinking can be a good alternative to traditional information organizing thinking.
Iranian Journal of Information Processing and Management (22518223)32(3)pp. 605-630
This research aims to study the presence contexts of infodemiology and the introduction and expansion of its framework. Based on Eysenbach’s View, infodemiology can be defined as the science of distribution and determinants of information in an electronic medium, specifically the Internet, or in a population, with the ultimate aim to inform public health and public policy. In this review article, library method has been used to define and describe the term “infodemiology” and its dimensions. In this study after an introduction investigating the present setting, and defining the concept of infodemiology, the framework of this science and its measurements has been studied and finally the relationship between infodemiology and public health has been described. According to the results, digital media technologies resulted in paradigm shift in choosing the ways in which people search their health information. The researches in this domain have been resulted in credible and significant measurements to track health information supply and demand. Also, infodemiological researches cause specialists design and develop health information databanks based on given measurements. The studies show that there is the possibility of applying some measurements as alarm systems for proliferating infection diseases or presence of new diseases. These measurements are called “infodemiology measurements” which reflect supply-based infodemiology and demand-based infodemiology. According to these, data collecting in this field and using its measurements could be useful in policy-making.
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.
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
Amoozadeh, M., Zarepour, A., Khosravi, A., Iravani, S., Zarrabi, A., Ardestani, M., Asashiba, H., Lanki, M., Khorsandi, Z., Hafezi r., R., Asemi, A., Nourmohammadi abadchi, A., Keshavarzipour, F., Vahed R., Shabani, A., Feiz, S.M.H., Nezarat, A., Adarmanabadi, E.R., Sadeghi-aliabadi, H., Varma, R.S.
Library Philosophy and Practice (discontinued) (15220222)2017
The purpose of this study was to identify the most important historical works written in the field of commercialization of knowledge using Referenced Publication Years Spectroscopy (RPYS). Initial data were obtained from the Web of Science (WoS) database to investigate the historical roots of published works in the field of commercialization of knowledge. Then, the main roots of this filed, the amount of received citations, and influential works were identified using RPYS software. Next, with the help of the yearcr software, the extent of the effects of the works outside of the range of peaks were also introduced. The period under investigation is the publication in the years 1900-2015. by searching published works in the time period of 1900-2015, 1550 records related to commercialization of knowledge were retrieved. To exactly investigate the effects of this field, the timeframe was divided into five periods (four 25-year periods and one 15-year period) to allow peaks with a small number of citations in the early years. The total number of citations up to the time of the present research was 39817, which resulted in the emergence of five peaks in the years 1934, 1962, 1973, 1998, and 2003.
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).
Shabani, A., Rezaei aderyani r., , Abedi, M., Naderi f.,
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.
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).
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.
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.
