Scientometrics
Ali Biranvand; Hadi Alhaei; ALi Shojaeifard
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Goal: Considering the positive effects of scientific productions of scientific-citation databases on scientometric indicators of the works indexed on those databases, this research investigates the effects of altmetric scores provided by the Mendeley Scientific-Citation Network on the scientometric indicators ...
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Goal: Considering the positive effects of scientific productions of scientific-citation databases on scientometric indicators of the works indexed on those databases, this research investigates the effects of altmetric scores provided by the Mendeley Scientific-Citation Network on the scientometric indicators of Scopus and Google Scholar. Methods: The present research is a basic study with a quantitative approach that uses the citation method to investigate the effects of altmetric scores of the scientific productions of the semantic web domain derived from the Mendeley and altmetrics databases on the indicator of the number of citations received for these works on Scopus. The thematic domain of the present research involves scientific productions of Iranian authors in the semantic web domain, indexed from 1960 to 2021 on the Scopus database. The statistical population of this research consisted of 271 records at the time data were extracted from the Scopus database (10/02/2022). For the statistical analysis, correlation coefficient and stepwise multiple regression tests were used in addition to descriptive and inferential statistics. Software used included Excel and SPSS. This research first searched scientific productions of the semantic web domain on Scopus. Then, to meet the main goal of the research, i.e., evaluating the scientific productions of Iranian authors in the semantic web domain and investigating the effects of the activities of these authors on the Mendeley and Altmetric databases on the indicator of the numbers of citations received on the Scopus, the search process was limited to Iranian-affiliated scientific production on Scopus. In the next stage, altmetric scores related to these scientific productions were retrieved from the Mendeley and Altmetrics databases and then prepared for statistical tests. The retrieved works were case studied to increase the accuracy of relating the themes of the works under study. Findings: A survey of scientific productions of semantic web domain on Scopus revealed that the highest number of the works in this domain was registered in 2010, with the first indexed
Scientometrics
Mostafa Ghannad; Mohammad Arabmazar Yazdi; Mohammad Hossein Safarzadeh Bandari; Reza HesarZadeh
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Purpose: The present paper aims to review the criteria of the scientific journals evaluation system of MSRT including the annual listing of the names of reviewers, reviewers’ registration with international scientific databases, and their geographical and institutional distribution. Moreover, the ...
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Purpose: The present paper aims to review the criteria of the scientific journals evaluation system of MSRT including the annual listing of the names of reviewers, reviewers’ registration with international scientific databases, and their geographical and institutional distribution. Moreover, the composition of reviewers, in terms of gender, specialty, and scientific rank, is investigated. Finally, interlocked reviewers are identified, and it is investigated what percentage of scientific publications in accounting is allocated to the journals’ own reviewers.
Methodology: this paper is descriptive survey research and uses a checklist to collect the data. Data analysis is performed by adopting an evaluative scientometric method. The statistical population of the current research comprises the websites of 19 accounting journals scientific in 2021.
Findings: Findings demonstrate that 17 out of 19 journals (90%) have annually listed the names of their reviewers on their website. less than 10 percent of reviewers have built up their profiles in the Publons database. The geographical distribution shows that 28 provinces contribution to the peer-review process. Furthermore, the institutional distribution of reviewers shows that 107 universities have at least one representative on the peer-review boards of accounting journals. More than 52% of reviewers hold the academic rank of assistant professor, 32% associate professor, and 12% full professor.
Women make up 27% of peer reviewers, and 93% of reviewers are accounting specialists. More than 231 out of 622 papers published in 2021 are authored by the journals’ own reviewers (37%). The investigation of interlocked reviewers reveals that Zohreh Hajiha, participating in the peer-review process of 14 journals have contributed to the largest number of journals, and the total number of reviewers’ names published in accounting journals (1364) represent 492 individual reviewers.
Conclusion: The status of referees in accounting publications does not indicate the favorable situation that is expected which can be rectified through better policymaking and fulfilling the scientific publication criteria by relevant authorities, and finally, lead to the improved quality of published papers and the development of accounting knowledge.
Scientometrics
sara dakhesh; Elham Rezaei; Marzieh Mahmoodi; Ali Hamidi
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Background and Objectives: Altmetrics enable monitoring, tracking, and evaluating the role of authors and scientific and research publications in line with citations. Therefore, the present study aimed to determine the effects of altmetrics on Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) of articles published ...
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Background and Objectives: Altmetrics enable monitoring, tracking, and evaluating the role of authors and scientific and research publications in line with citations. Therefore, the present study aimed to determine the effects of altmetrics on Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) of articles published about osteoporosis by Iranian researchers and indexed in Scopus during 2008-2017Methodology: This study was a descriptive survey and the research population included all the articles on osteoporosis, as a keyword by affiliated authors of Iran, indexed in Scopus during 2008-2017. Based on the initial search, 512 articles were retrieved on February 25, 2018. In addition, the cut-off point was set to six, implying that all the articles with more than six citations were selected as samples. In this regard, 114 articles received at least six citations, and the FWCI for each of these articles was separately extracted from the Scopus database. Subsequently, PlumX data for these articles were manually extracted in five categories of Usage, Captures, Mentions, social media, and Citations. Finally, these data were analyzed using the statistical software R, version 3.3.1.Findings: Among the examined categories, Usage with the highest mean (216.482 ±468.081) was significantly different from the other categories. However, mentions (13.271±23.478) was least welcomed by users. Besides, among the studied metrics, ‘Exports-Saves’ (p=0.022), ‘Citation Indexes’ in CrossRef (p=0.041), ‘Time’ (p>0.001), and ‘Citation Indexes’ in Scopus (p>0.001) had a positive and significant correlation with FWCI.Discussion: In general, the average FWCI increased by an increase in ‘Citation Indexes’ (in Scopus and CrossRef), ‘Exports-Saves’, and publication time. Therefore, it is recommended that universities, institutes, and research centers be made aware of the importance of researchers’ presence and membership in social networks. This increases the visibility of their research, and thus they can receive enough feedback to evaluate their works.
Scientometrics
Ali Biranvand; Mohammad Ebrahim Samie; Sareh Rahmaniyan; Mahsa Keshtkar
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Purpose: The significant influence of scientific and citation networks among scientific societies has caused that while identifying influential individuals and universities in each field, the issue of knowledge sharing is also highly considered. With this in mind, the present study investigates the relationship ...
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Purpose: The significant influence of scientific and citation networks among scientific societies has caused that while identifying influential individuals and universities in each field, the issue of knowledge sharing is also highly considered. With this in mind, the present study investigates the relationship between Mendeley academic social network Altmetrics indices and Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar databases in the field of economy, management, and accounting.Methodology: The present study is applied research that has been done in a descriptive-survey method with the Altmetrics approach. The statistical population of the research includes Iranian Authors and researchers in the field of economy, management, and accounting who had indexed documents in the Scopus database in the period of 2000-2019. 160 of the most prolific authors have been introduced and reviewed by Scopus. In order to analyze the data, in addition to descriptive statistics, in the inferential statistics section using Excel and SPSS software, a simple and multiple correlation test between the studied indicators has been used.Results: The results show a significant and positive relationship between the indicators studied in Mendeley with the scientometric indicators of Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar databases. This relationship is very high in cases such as reading frequency, a number of citations, and HTML index score, Mendeley with Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar, and weak in cases such as Mendeley reader index with Scopus co-authorship index. The results show that the degree of correlation between the citations received in Mendeley and other databases is very high. Also, the relationship between the authors' index in Mendeley and other databases is positive and significant. This relationship is stronger between Scopus and Web of Science than the other databases.Conclusion: Due to the positive and significant relationship between Mendeley indicators and indicators of other databases, the use of this academic social network in publishing and sharing research results can attract more citations.
