Scientometrics
Ali Akbar Khasseh; Faramarz soheili; Heidar Mokhtari; Shahdokht Paydar
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Purpose: In spite of their importance, especially in social sciences and humanities, book reviews have hardly been considered from a scientometric perspective. This study aimed at investigating the contribution made by Middle Eastern countries in book reviews indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) during ...
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Purpose: In spite of their importance, especially in social sciences and humanities, book reviews have hardly been considered from a scientometric perspective. This study aimed at investigating the contribution made by Middle Eastern countries in book reviews indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) during 2009-2018, emphasizing Iran.
Methodology: This applied study was a scientometric survey. At first, the needed data were extracted from WoS and imported into Excel. Then, isi.exe software was used for measuring scientometric indicators and determining co-authorship patterns.
Findings: Turkey, Iran and Emirate had the highest ranks in publishing book reviews, respectively. Regarding the share ratio of book reviews to all papers of a certain country, Cyprus and Jordan ranked first to second, respectively. The share of Middle Eastern countries in book reviews was very low in comparison with that of the World. These countries were more active in the subjects of history, religion, other social sciences and humanities, government and low, and area studies. Turkey, Iran and Emirate had the highest ranks in receiving citations for their book reviews, respectively. Most of book reviews were one-authored.
Conclusion: In conclusion, it can be said that in all,, the ranking of the Middle East countries, including among others, Iran in producing book reviews was not acceptable in the world as well as their received citation rates during the recent decade. In addition, these countries have disregarded book reviews in science and engineering.n conclusion, it can be said that in all,, the ranking of the Middle East countries, including among others, Iran in producing book reviews was not acceptable in the world as well as their received citation rates during the recent decade. In addition, these countries have disregarded book reviews in science and engineering. can be said that in all,, the ranking of the Middle East countries, including among others, Iran in producing book reviews was not acceptable in the world as well as their received citation rates during the recent decade.
Public Libraries
Ali Akbar Khasseh; Yosra Rahmani; Faramarz Soheili
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Purpose: The purpose of the current study was to investigate the Copyright literacy of public librarians in Kermanshah province, Iran.
Research method: The current study is a descriptive-survey. The statistical population of this research is all librarians of Public Library in Kermanshah (N=170). Based ...
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Purpose: The purpose of the current study was to investigate the Copyright literacy of public librarians in Kermanshah province, Iran.
Research method: The current study is a descriptive-survey. The statistical population of this research is all librarians of Public Library in Kermanshah (N=170). Based on Cochran formula, 118 individuals were selected as sample. The sampling method used in this study was stratified random sampling. Four standard questionnaires to assess librarians' copyright literacy developed by Todorova et al. (2017) were used for data collection. Then to analyze the data and answer the research questions from descriptive indices (frequency distribution table, mean and standard deviation), chi-square test, one-sample t-test and independent sample t-test and one-way analysis of variance test in SPSS software was used.
Findings: The results of data analysis demonstrated that the level of familiarity of librarians with copyright issues in Kermanshah province is low. Moreover, the results showed that Kermanshah Public Librarians' awareness of copyright policies and procedures of the country and its libraries is at a low level. In their view, there is no one in their organization responsible for dealing with copyright issues. The results also indicated that the overwhelming majority of librarians in Kermanshah province agree with the inclusion of copyright issues in academic curricula and its teaching, especially at undergraduate level. Finally, results showed that there is no significant difference between librarians' familiarity with copyright issues in gender, fields of study (librarianship and non-librarianship) and level of education.
Conclusion: According to the results of this study, it can be said that the absence of issues related to copyright and its rules in the curriculum of the students of librarianship and information science in the universities are extremely bold. Moreover, it seems that public libraries did not perform well on teaching copyright issues to their staff, especially librarians, as they could teach these workshops and courses. The managers of public libraries in Kermanshah province should have better planning for their organization's librarians. It is recommended that, in hiring librarians, library managers and policy makers should also be aware of the amount of copyright literacy of applicants.
Scientometrics
Ebrahim Ezzati Larsari; Ali Akbar Khasseh
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This study tries to uncover the historical roots and influential publications in Machine Translation (MT) via a bibliometric analysis technique called RPYS. Preliminary data of study has been extracted from Web of Science concerning papers related to the MT from 1900 to 2021. Results exposed that the ...
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This study tries to uncover the historical roots and influential publications in Machine Translation (MT) via a bibliometric analysis technique called RPYS. Preliminary data of study has been extracted from Web of Science concerning papers related to the MT from 1900 to 2021. Results exposed that the supreme enterprise of MT was initiated by Shannon in 1948; the one who illuminated the notion of entropy in information technology. After that, Weaver contributed to the appearance of statistical word by word MT in 1949. Moreover, it was Levenshtein(1966) who introduced the revolutionary notion of binary codes capable of correcting deletions, insertions, and reversals in MT. In addition, Dempster et al. (1977) presented a novel statistical EM algorithm concerning maximum likelihood from incomplete data. Later, the works of scholars Brown et al. (1993), Hochreiter (1997), Papineni et al. (2002), and Koehn et al. (2007) have been instrumental in shaping and developing MT.In overall, MT has been developed tremendously during the recent years. More precisely, it seems to be fair to say that it was the language of mathematics (0&1), as well as statistics (optimal estimation) that could feed any linguistic information into machines and computers to be processed naturally. Furthermore, it should be noted that the first attempts for MT began with introducing the way of feeding linguistic information into machine-compatible language by the help of mathematical coding systems. As it has been fulfilled, researchers intended to present a model based on statistical procedures in which word by word translation could be directed more accurately and precisely. Slowly but surely, the idea of word by word translation was developed into phrase-based and syntax-based translation. Meanwhile, there were lots of attempts towards the logicality, as well as the reasonability of automated translations. In view of that, researchers tried to improve the quality of translations by incorporating the context role in achieving a well-matched MT from source to the target language, especially in retrieving the semantic and pragmatic information of elliptic sentences .
Information Behavior
Faramarz soheili; Ali Akbar Khasseh; hojatallah Askari
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Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the information literacy of graduate students in electronic environment in Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz. Methodology: This research has been done by mixed method. Quantitative part of the research was descriptive-survey studies and qualitative part ...
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Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the information literacy of graduate students in electronic environment in Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz. Methodology: This research has been done by mixed method. Quantitative part of the research was descriptive-survey studies and qualitative part was thematic analysis. The statistical population in a small part includes graduate students of Shahid Chamran University, of which 354 people have been selected by the relative class method. In the qualitative part, the statistical sample included 8 professors and librarians of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz. Research data were collected in the quantitative part through a questionnaire and in the qualitative part in the form of focus groups. Quantitative data were analyzed using SPSS software version 22 and qualitative data were analyzed by content analysis.Results: Data analysis showed that graduate students of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz have a relatively good information literacy in the electronic environment. Qualitative data analysis leads to the identification of 40 basic themes and 4 organizational themes related to challenges (including information, skills, organization, software and hardware challenges) and thematic analysis leads to the identification of 27 basic themes and 3 themes. The organizer became aware of mechanisms (including knowledge enhancement, skills enhancement, and systems updating) for better search of graduate students when properly searching electronic collections. Conclusion: Although the information literacy situation of graduate students of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz in the electronic environment is favorable, but the challenges identified in this study affect the information literacy of students in the electronic environment. To overcome these challenges, libraries can enhance students' information literacy through knowledge and skills development.Conclusion: Although the information literacy situation of graduate students of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz in the electronic environment is favorable, but the challenges identified in this study affect the information literacy of students in the electronic environment. To overcome these challenges, libraries can enhance students' information literacy through knowledge and skills development.
Faramarz soheili; Minoosh Ezati; Ali Akbar Khasseh
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Purpose: In this study, comparative comparisons between Simorgh and Mirase Jam-E Jam software have been made and the features and performances of these two software have been described in the IRIB organization.Research method: The present study is of applied variety, and has been done with survey method ...
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Purpose: In this study, comparative comparisons between Simorgh and Mirase Jam-E Jam software have been made and the features and performances of these two software have been described in the IRIB organization.Research method: The present study is of applied variety, and has been done with survey method and an evaluation method has been used to analyze the obtained data.Findings: The findings of this research showed that in the eleven criteria which considered in this study (including; Software technical section, Data input and output standards section, Search section, save and restore, To register and login information, Help Section, reporting section, Security section, metadata standards section, operating system limitations, user interface section) the Mirase Jam-E Jam software is superior to the Simorgh software in six criteria.However, the Simorgh software is also superior in data input and output sectors, search, and save and restore, Help and ultimately in the user interface as compared to the Mirase Jam-E Jam software. In a general comparison, based on all the criteria, the Mirase Jam-E Jam software has superiority with acquiring 53.08 over the Simorgh software with 46.55.Conclusion: The results of this study showed that both software require major revisions. Although the Mirase Jam-e Jam software is superior, but important parts need to be revision to be more consistent with archival resources.
Public Libraries
Ali Akbar Khasseh; Shahla Yosefpoor; Faramarz soheili; Mehri Shahbazi
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Background and Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders in librarians based on the work conditions and its relationship with burnout, job stress and job motivation among public libraries in Kermanshah province. In order to achieve this goal, the ...
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Background and Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders in librarians based on the work conditions and its relationship with burnout, job stress and job motivation among public libraries in Kermanshah province. In order to achieve this goal, the research focused on the following three hypotheses: (1) Librarians of public libraries in Kermanshah province have a high rate of musculoskeletal disorders; (2) There is a significant relationship between musculoskeletal disorders based on heavy workstation conditions and burnout in librarians of public libraries in Kermanshah province; There is a significant relationship between musculoskeletal disorders based on heavy workstation conditions and job stress in librarians of public libraries in Kermanshah province.
Methodology: This research is of survey-descriptive type. The statistical population of this study included all librarians working in 51 public libraries of Kermanshah province, whose total number was reported to be 170 people. Using Cochran's formula, 118 people were selected as a sample by proportional stratified random sampling. Four standard questionnaires were used to collect data. The first research instrument was the standard Nordic Musculoskeletal Disorders Questionnaire, which examines nine anatomical areas of the body, including the neck, shoulders, elbows, hands and wrists, back, waist, thighs, knees, feet, and ankles. It also emphasizes whether these discomforts have caused the person to quit or be unable to work. The second instrument was the Maslach burnout inventory, which measures the three dimensions of emotional fatigue, depersonalization, and feelings of inefficiency. The third instrument was HSE (The Health and Safety Executive) work stress questionnaire, which measures the 7 components of role, communication, support of officials, support of colleagues, control, demand and changes in employees. Finally, the fourth tool was Maslow's job motivation questionnaire, which includes 5 subscales of feeling safe, social belonging, feeling respect, feeling independent, and feeling self-fulfilling. Data were analyzed using logistic regression correlation coefficient and chi-square test.
Findings: The results showed that the highest prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders was in the lumbar region, back area, neck area, hip or thigh area, respectively, and the lowest prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders was reported in the knee, shoulder, wrist area, and elbow area. The study of the relationship between burnout and the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders in the neck, back, buttocks, shoulders, elbows and wrists showed that there is a significant and negative correlation between job stress and the prevalence of these disorders in the buttocks. Moreover, there is also a significant and negative correlation between job motivation and the prevalence of these disorders in the neck, back and shoulders. The value of odds ratio in these areas also shows that for each unit of increase in job motivation score, the probability of neck disorders (47%) and back and shoulders (53%) decreases.
Discussion: According to the results of the present study, musculoskeletal disorders have a high frequency among employees of public libraries in Kermanshah province. In this regard, ergonomic intervention programs in the workplace seem to be essential. According to the results of this study, it is suggested that employees be provided with training on ergonomic principles of work in the workplace. In addition, due to the direct relationship between the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders and burnout and job stress, it is suggested that public library administrators take appropriate measures to reduce the pressure on the individual and create positive entertainment, work safety training and programs. Increase retraining, increase individual and organizational productivity. In addition, it is recommended to prevent musculoskeletal disorders by examining appropriate work tools and how they are adapted to individual characteristics and designing a suitable workstation for librarians. According to the results of the present study, this measure will eventually lead to a reduction in occupational depression. Also, public library managers, if they have enough information about risk factors in job stress and musculoskeletal disorders related to work, will be able to establish proper communication with staff and create a suitable work environment for them to continue their stress-free activities. As a result, the incidence of musculoskeletal disorders is somewhat reduced. Also, due to the inverse relationship between job motivation and the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders, it is suggested that managers in order to increase job motivation, pay enough attention to improving the salary situation, rewards and job promotion. Library administrators are also encouraged to relocate librarians working in the overcrowded sections of the library. The use of occupational health consultants in the field of providing work equipment (especially computer equipment) and the use of software that appears on the computer screen at a specific time and reminds to perform soft movements are other effective suggestions in preventing musculoskeletal disorders.
Ali Akbar Khasseh; laila zamani; Faramarz soheili
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Purpose: This paper aims to evaluate the quality of services provided by mobile websites of Iranian academic libraries.Research method: This research uses a quantitative content analysis methodology. In this research, using a purposive sample, 20 top universities affiliated to the Ministry of Science ...
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Purpose: This paper aims to evaluate the quality of services provided by mobile websites of Iranian academic libraries.Research method: This research uses a quantitative content analysis methodology. In this research, using a purposive sample, 20 top universities affiliated to the Ministry of Science Research and Technology (MSRT), and 20 top Islamic Azad Universities (IAU) listed in ISC have been chosen. Data gathering tool is a standard checklist by Torres-Pérez (2016) which evaluates the quality of services. Findings: The results indicated that the quality of services in mobile websites of MSRT is higher than average, and IAU’s are lower than average. In the ranking of service quality, Tehran University, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, and University of Mazandaran acquired highest scores. Also, the results revealed that there is no correlation between rankings based on the quality of academic libraries' services and their university ranking in the ISC.Conclusion: Considering the wide range of users, it seems that paying attention to the quality of services in the design of the mobile website of academic libraries makes it easier for users to visit it, use more library services, and eventually increase the efficiency of library services.
Reza Mokhtarpour; Aliakbar Khasseh
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This study, using a new method called Referenced Publication Years Spectroscopy (RPYS), examines the most important historic works written in the area of research methodology. Preliminary data of this study have been extracted from Web ob Science database through scientomerics methods. For this purpose, ...
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This study, using a new method called Referenced Publication Years Spectroscopy (RPYS), examines the most important historic works written in the area of research methodology. Preliminary data of this study have been extracted from Web ob Science database through scientomerics methods. For this purpose, the references used in all the papers in the core journals in this field since 1980 to the end of 2014 were studied. Distribution of resources in the area of research methodology based on the publication year indicates that this field of study, during time interval 1900 to 1980, has seen 9 major mutations, respectively, in the years 1910, 1927, 1934, 1938, 1951, 1960, 1965, 1967, and 1979. The findings suggest a considerable influence of psychological studies (in particular, the application of statistics in psychology) on historical topics of research methodology; So that, 4 out of 5 sources related to the period 1900 to 1940, are written straight by the experts of psychology, with an emphasis on improving statistical methods and applying them in different researches. The results revealed that the share of articles out of total referred resources works presented, compared to books, was 12 to 7 which could direct us to this point that, the impact of articles in shaping the historical origins of the research methodology topics was more colorful than books.
