Scientometrics
Zhiyan Darvishi; Elmira Janavi; Maryam Sarrafzadeh
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Background and Objectives: The scientific community's presence in scientific and professional social networks such as LinkedIn has advantages such as improving scholarly works' visibility, sharing knowledge with professionals and students, interacting with other scholars, and promoting research's social ...
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Background and Objectives: The scientific community's presence in scientific and professional social networks such as LinkedIn has advantages such as improving scholarly works' visibility, sharing knowledge with professionals and students, interacting with other scholars, and promoting research's social impact. This study aims to analyse the activities of faculty members in the field of Information Science and Knowledge Studies in the social network of LinkedIn. Methodology: The present research is applied, and descriptive-analytical and the method used in this research is the library and social network analysis, which has been done with a quantitative approach. The research community consists of all faculty members working in Information Science and Knowledge Studies in Iranian public universities. Data were obtained manually during June and July 2019 by examining each of these members' profile pages. Then, the obtained data were entered into Excel software and tabulated and analysed based on research questions. Findings: The results showed that 59.13% of the faculty members are members of LinkedIn. Of this number, only 17.64% have been active in posting, commenting, and liking, with Maryam Sarrafzadeh and Amir Reza Asnafi accounting for the highest number. The most common topic of faculty posts on LinkedIn is "Sharing and introducing personal scholarly outputs" at 28.07%. In the LinkedIn interests section, 54 members followed 314 groups, influential people, companies, and educational institutions. In general, "Abdolreza Norouzi Chakli" and "Rasoul Zavaraqi" followed by 73 of the mentioned cases have the highest amount. The activities of "Maryam Sarrafzadeh" and "Abdolreza Norouzi Chakli" are more diverse than the others. The studied indicators determined that "Maryam Sarrafzadeh" with 3161 points and among the universities; the University of Tehran with 6271 points had the highest performance. Among the surveyed members, 75% of the people in their profile have a personal photo. Given the importance of having an image on your LinkedIn profile, 25% of people who do not have a photo on their profile are almost high. Examining the faculty members' profiles and the information they provided about themselves showed that they had performed poorly in this area. The low statistics of completing the experiences, achievements, and language sections show that people did not enter everything they are, but only briefly mentioned them. Recommendations, which are an essential part of LinkedIn, have received very little attention. The "About" section of most people gives minimal information about the person. This may be because people are not interested in describing their scientific and professional life descriptively or do not take completing this section very seriously. Discussion: In general, according to the findings of this study, including that less than 14% of faculty members on LinkedIn have shared posts, and also had the least interaction with the posts shared by other members in the form of likes and comments, it can be said that board members Information Science and Knowledge Iranian public universities have not used the facilities and capabilities of the LinkedIn social network to share knowledge and communicate with professionals and students. The faculty members' poor performance of the Iranian Information Science and Knowledge Departments on LinkedIn has prevented a real interaction between science and practice. So that specialists in this field, such as librarians, research experts and people involved in the areas of scientometrics and evaluation of science and technology, can not update their professional knowledge by following faculty members and published research to improve their working performance. Job search is one of the most critical applications of a LinkedIn social network, and many employers search for the required workforce from LinkedIn. In resume and job search workshops held by libraries in developed countries for job seekers, LinkedIn and how to present profile information in a way that attracts the employer is taught. But in Iran, the issue is not taken into account; given the high unemployment rate in Iran, it needs to be educated and taken seriously. It is suggested that faculty members of Information Science and Knowledge Studies have an active presence in this network and encourage their students to use it. Incorporating scientific and professional social networks such as LinkedIn into related courses and institutionalizing its use as a conduit for faculty and students and staying up-to-date scientifically can pave the way for it to be taught by future professionals and professionals. It is also suggested that different Library and Information Association branches hold educational workshops on scientific and professional communication in cyberspace to emphasize the importance of being on the social web to enhance the visibility of the scholarly works and increase the social impact of research and provide the necessary platform for education and public awareness.
Narges Neshat; Zahra Sadat Alami
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Background and Objectives: Today, the index of scientific outputs is in the focus of policy makers and decision makers at national and international levels; However, it alone cannot be considered a definitive sign for the all-round growth and development of science; But the fact is that today many decisions ...
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Background and Objectives: Today, the index of scientific outputs is in the focus of policy makers and decision makers at national and international levels; However, it alone cannot be considered a definitive sign for the all-round growth and development of science; But the fact is that today many decisions in the field of research and development are made based on the scientific outputs of countries and as a visual object, provide the possibility of comparison, judgment, and benchmarking.
Library and information science (LIS) has emerged, not only as a profession and the educational programme that supports it, but also as a research discipline. Research is needed to create new knowledge and there by contribute to the growth of LIS as a profession or discipline. If research and researcher are absent, non-existent or even scarce, there is no profession, but only an occupation grounded in techniques, routine and common sense. This is, of course, the important reason why research is conducted into library and information science (LIS), or why research products are important. That is why it is important to see what are the barriers to research outputs and how to overcome these barriers. Librarians and other information specialists such as faculty members must to development effectiveness in LIS with their scientific output and services. In this study we want to comparison of scientific products of faculty members of library and information science in research centers and determining the factors affecting it.
Methodology: Methodology is the means by which their searcher collects data, might consist of self-reports surveys, statistical analysis, or anather methods. This study has been done with cientometric approach and two methods of content analysis and survey. Survey was used to rate and compare scientific output. Then, based on the qualitative content analysis of texts related to this subject, the barriers to scientific production were extracted and designed in the form of a questionnaire.
Findings: As mentioned, one of the main pillars of science production is the scientific community and their scientific fertility; And faculty members are one of the most basic elements of this scientific fertility. One of the consequences and products of their performance is products that appear in the form of information sources such as books, articles, reports, standards, etc. It is due to the existence of such products and consumption trends in the scientific community that the index of scientific fertility makes sense in this field. The importance of this index is that it can be used to express the status of scientific research in quantitative language and measure it, and thus achieve an objective picture of them in different areas of a country. The findings of this study showed that the tendency to produce an article is greater than other information items. Persian is also the dominant language. The highest per capita scientific production is related to the Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization with 156 scientific productions. Next is the Iranian Institute of Information Science and Technology, and the Research Institute of Islamic Science and Culture.
Discussion: Among the Inhibiting factors scientific production, Individual barriers to scientific production among faculty members of the three centers of the Islamic Encyclopaedia Foundation, the Shiraz Science and Technology Information Center, and the Research Institute of Islamic Science and Culture have been more than other centers. So, the faculty members of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature, the Islamic Encyclopedia Foundation, and the Research Institute of Islamic Sciences and Culture have had most external barriers. Intra-organizational barriers are more common among the Institute of Islamic Sciences and Culture, the Academy of Persian Language and Literature, and the Islamic Encyclopedia Foundation and the National Library and Archives. Therefore, it is suggested that each of these research centers take action to remove these barriers. Another point is to pay attention to efficient and scientific management in these centers. Because in the shadow of optimal policy in this field, individual, internal and external organizational barriers can change their place with opportunities. The management of research centers must be able to use downstream forces and their creativity properly. Facilitate faculty members' access to the organization's research programs; Dissemination of research culture and promotion of the value and dignity of the faculty members of the studied research centers are also among the things that can be achieved through proper research management. In this study, inhibitory factors from the perspective of faculty members were considered; Therefore, to complete and compare the views, it is suggested that these factors be measured from the perspective of officials and managers of research centers and compared with the findings of the present study.
zahed bigdeli; farzaneh ghanadinezhad
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Purpose. the purpose of this research is to analyze scientific information sharing of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz faculty in social networks.Method. This study which is conducted through quantitative and qualitative methods, is an applied research in terms of aim, and is of a descriptive-analytic ...
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Purpose. the purpose of this research is to analyze scientific information sharing of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz faculty in social networks.Method. This study which is conducted through quantitative and qualitative methods, is an applied research in terms of aim, and is of a descriptive-analytic type in nature. The population included all faculty members of Shahid Chamran University. Interview was also applied to complete the information gathered through the questionnaire. Findings. The findings showed that most respondents spend less than 30 minutes daily to share scientific information through social networks. Among different capabilities of social networks, respondents mostly use their personal profiles to share their publications and interests. The most important barriers for them to use the social networks is lack of instruction on how to use social networks to share scientific information.Results. Using social networks among faculty members will encourage them to share scientific information and exchange ideas, and hence, help to develop science, create new information, and increase scientific production.
Farshad Parhamnia; Fatemeh Nooshinfard
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Purpose: The goal of the present study was to investigate the contextual factors affecting the scholarly communication of the faculty members in Iran’s Universities. Methodology: The study aimed to be an applied analytic survey. The statistical population included the faculty members working in ...
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Purpose: The goal of the present study was to investigate the contextual factors affecting the scholarly communication of the faculty members in Iran’s Universities. Methodology: The study aimed to be an applied analytic survey. The statistical population included the faculty members working in all universities in Iran. The data gathering instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire containing 35 questions. The obtained Alpha Cronbach correlation coefficient was.881 which proved the reliability of the questionnaire. The data were analyzed based on multiple regression analysis using Amos and SPSS 21. Finding: The multiple regression analysis showed that among the contextual factors, the variable of the relationship with government, the academic freedom, the social environment and political and cultural environment can statistically explain the variance of scholarly communication.Conclusion: : It is concluded that there is significant relationship between the scholarly communication with the scientific products. Moreover, the scholarly communication can explain the variance of the scientific production.
Mohammad Reza Shekari
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Background and Aim: The aim of this study is to assess the Iranian Personal paper Information Management of knowledge and information science and medical library information sciences faculty members based on the Jones model. Methodology: This is an application research and the survey method was conducted. ...
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Background and Aim: The aim of this study is to assess the Iranian Personal paper Information Management of knowledge and information science and medical library information sciences faculty members based on the Jones model. Methodology: This is an application research and the survey method was conducted. The statistical population included faculty of knowledge and information science and medical library and information sciences in Iranian state universities. The research tool is a questionnaire based on previous studies made and its validity and reliability were confirmed. To analyze the data using statistical software spss22 descriptive and inferential statistical methods were used. Result: The overall average of Personal paper Information Management is 3.32. The highest and lowest scores were related to measuring and evaluating and security with 3.682 and 2.995. In terms of gender, affiliation and the age difference is not significant; but in terms of the degree of difference between the Associate and Assistant Professor there. Conclusion The highest average person in the age group 45-36 years the Personal paper Information Management, Associate Degree, medical librarians and women's groups. On the whole, despite a relatively favorable status, the need to improve the skills of faculty members in the face of massive amounts of paper information comes in, to spend the least cost, best information in the most appropriate time to recover.
