Background and aim: there are different indexes for evaluation of scientific outputs of scholars. This study aimed at evaluating and analyzing 9 cases of these indexes by using actual data and exploratory factor analysis.

Background and aim: Today, the measuring and monitoring of science in different fields and issues are considered in different centers and universities. This study aimed at determining the qualitative and quantitative growth of scientific production in the field of sport sciences.

Material and methods: This research was a Scientometric study which analyzed the indexed scientific papers in Iran from 1994 to 17 March 2013 in the field of Sport Sciences by using qualitative and quantitative indices of (ISI) database. Data capture source, ISI base and 302 samples of recorded degrees in Iran were investigated in above years. The data were analyzed by Excel software.

  Background and aim: With rapid innovations and advancements in information and communication technologies in this era, the status of journals of Islamic Republic of Iran and the efforts to improve the quality and quantity of Iranian journals in international level are very important. The present research intends to assess indexed Iranian journals in Scopus database quantitatively and qualitatively.

  Material and methods : The present research is a descriptive survey which can be applied through Scientometrics methods. Scopus database is the data source here. This research community comprises all Iranian scientific journals indexed in Scopus database during 2000-2012. Statistical software Excel was used to analyze the data and network analysis software NodeXL was applied to draw shapes.

  Findings : Findings indicate that an increase in the number of indexed Iranian Journals in Scopus database from 8 titles in 2000 has reached to 113 titles in 2012. These findings also show that more academic-scientific institutes and centers have been in charge of managing and indexing scientific journals during the study years.

  Conclusion: Unlike the quantitative growth in the number of indexed Journals, the quality of indexed Iranian journals (except for few cases) does not have a desirable condition. Thus, the policies on this issue can be helpful in this regard.

Background and aim: Present scientometrics study aimed at investigating the scientific collaboration of Iranian scientometrics researchers during 2002-2012.

Background and aim: Doctors considerably use evidence-based medicine in order to answer their clinical questions and support clinical decisions. The aim of this paper was to determine the compliance rate of evidence-based medicine resources with Ovid and Silberg criteria.

Material and methods: This study is an applied research, which was carried through survey and webometric methods. The samples were consisted of six evidence-based medicine resources. Evaluations were done by using Silberg and Ovid Criteria. The collected data was analyzed in SPSS (version 20) by using descriptive statistics (frequency and frequency percentage) and analytic (Spearman's test).

 Findings: Findings showed that databases complied with Silberg criterion at a level of 88/88% with a total score of 48 out of 54 and complied with Ovid criterion at a level of 36/92% with a total score of 319 out of 864. This indicated that the position of databases in Silberg criterion was more than half of the total score, but in Ovid criterion, it was less than half of the total score. Results also showed that there was no correlation between compliance rate of evidence-based medicine with Ovid and Silberg criteria.

 Conclusion: Although evidence-based medicine resources have been validated according to Silberg criterion, components such as user interface, usability, and technical issues have not been considered in their design.

Background and aim: Due to the limited financial and human resources, determining the research priorities are the most important issues facing science and technology policymakers. This study determined the Iranian research priorities from economic approach.

Material and Methods: This study is applied research with scientometrics and econometrics methods. SCImago and Gross Domestic Product Per capita (GDPP) data were extracted from World Bank database and data were analyzed by EViews 7 software.

 Findings: Engineering and Human Science groups (0.01 level) have affected GDPP. Human science (0.01 level), Medicine and Veterinary (0.05 level) groups have been affected by GDPP.

 Conclusion: Biomedical Engineering, Building and Construction, Control and Systems Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Material Science and the Mechanics of Material fields have affected economic growth. In other words, these fields can be placed in Iranian research priorities.

Background and aim: Self-citation is an important challenging issue in evaluating the scientific outputs. The aim of this study was to assess analytically the relationship between the quality and self-citation in Persian Humanities Journals based on Persian Journal Citation Reports (PJCR) in the Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC).

Material and methods: Citation analysis method was used in the present study and 67 Persian Humanities Journals indexed in the ISC database with impact factor.

Findings: The results showed that the average self-citation rate for humanities sciences journals with selected impact factors in 2010 was 24.45% in 2001- 2010. After analytical assessment of 67 reviewed journals, 23 of them had self-citation rate of 20% and less than 20%, and 20 of them had self-citation rate of more than 20%. Furthermore, results showed that the Impact Factor, Immediate Index, Matthew Value and the Proportion of Citing to their Articles with eliminating the effective self- citation in the four and combined indicators had decrease, increase and no changes in 65.91%, 19.35% and 14.72% of journals, respectively. In addition, with eliminating the self- citations, the citation value of 56.51% of the journals decreased, of 32.78% had no changes and of 3.94% of the journals reached to zero.

Conclusion: There was positive and significant relationship between the self-citation and the quality of journals. Therefore, it is needed to determine a policy for the rate of self-citation on the behalf of editorial board to reduce it and to cite by the other journals.

Background and Aim: Content analysis of scientific journals is a good way for becoming aware about the evolutionary flow of research strategies and data collection techniques used researchers in different fields. The purpose of this study is to investigate the content analysis of research strategies and data collection techniques used in Iranian Knowledge and information science Journals.

Materials and Methods: This study was conducted by content analysis method. The data collection tool was checklist and document observation. The study population included 943 articles published in Iranian Knowledge and Information Science journals. Data import to SPSS software and analysis by descriptive statistics and Chi-square formula.

 Findings: Literature review method was the most popular, used by 42.71% of Iranian researchers. The second most popular Iranian research method was survey method at 37.63%. Iranian articles were used a few number of other methods such as Field Research (0.20%), Information systems design (0.20%), or experimental research (1/20%). The leading technique was document observation, with about a half of the total (50.44%). The other prominent technique with 25.36% was questionnaire-distributing. Chi-square shows the meaningful difference between scientific journals based on research methods and data collections techniques.

Conclusion: Study of published articles showed that asymmetric distribution of research methods and data collection techniques used in knowledge and information science field.

Background and aim: Number of scientific products indexed in the major databases such as Web of Science is one of the important criteria for ranking countries. This research aimed to review the Iranian articles in the field of microbiology in terms of quantitative and qualitative indicators of the growth rates of self-citations.

Material and methods: In this research, citation analysis method was used. WoS database was selected for data collection and citation report of this database and Excel software were applied for data analysis.

Findings: Based on the findings, 763 microbial articles of Iranians researchers were indexed in Web of Science database. The average of annual growth rate was 57.25%. Average of citations annual growth rate without considering self-citation was 23.54. Average of annual growth rate of journal impact factors with self-citation and without self-citation was -8.51 and -8.93, respectively. Moreover, the average of annual growth rate of immediacy index was -10.1.

Conclusion: The results showed that Iran has had increasing and decreasing trends in the field of microbiology in terms of quantitative and scientometric qualitative indicators in recent years.

Background and aim: The aim of this study was to draw co-citation map of outstanding authors in the field of image retrieval based on articles indexed in ISI from 2001 to 2012.

Material and methods: This scientometric study was performed using bibliometric techniques such as co-citation analysis. Samples of the current study were all articles indexed in ISI in the field of image retrieval from 2001 to 2012. Therefore, 2537 papers were retrieved in this field. Citespace and Webometric Analyst software were used to analyze the co-citation of authors.

Findings: Results indicated that there were 84 co-citation links among 58 most cited authors in the network of co-citation authors. Tao DC and Zhang HJ reached the first rank with writing 26 articles. Rui Y was the most cited author with 627citations. Highest centrality, sigma and burst were related to RuiY with 0.55, Smith JR with 20.63 and Dattar R with 42.71, respectively.

Conclusion: Creating co-citation links among the authors of image retrieval shows the intellectual relevance among the authors of this field. It is obvious that none of the authors with high papers is an effective and most cited author and has the highest centrality, sigma and burst in the field of image retrieval.

Background and aim: Reviewing the trend of scientific products in the field of Evidence-Based Medicine is essential in order to plan for improving the status and research priorities of the state. The purpose of this study was to determine the research trend in Evidence-Based Medicine filed (EBM) based on Scopus database.

Material and methods: This applied study was conducted using a scientometric method. The samples were all scientific productions indexed by 'EBM' in Scopus database from 1939 to 2014. Data collection tool was Scopus database. The obtained data was analyzed using ‘Excel’ software.

Findings: Findings showed that the status of scientific products of the world in the field of Evidence-Based Medicine has descended in recent years so that the number of produced documents has been very small from 1939 to 1992. It has been increased from 1992 to 2007 and from 2011 to 2012 and decreased from 2007 to 2011 and from 2012 to 2014. No work has been published in the field of 'EBM' in 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, and from 1940 to 1961.

Conclusion: With a production of 258 documents, Iran is ranked 37 among the 160 participating nations. This rank is very low compared to the competing states.

Background and aim: The aims of this study was to compare the scientific productions of Iran in the field of education with competitor countries in the Middle East (Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt and Israel) based on published articles in the Web of Science database from 2003 to 2012.

Material and methods: Research method was scientometrics. Data was extracted from the WoS database. Totally, 4716 articles were retrieved With writing the research formula in advanced research, selecting three indexes of scientific citation, social sciences, art and humanities. The statistical population consisted of all of the scientific productions of 6 countries Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt, Israel in the field of education sciences. Excel and SPSS software were used to analyze the data.

Findings: The results showed that the amount of the scientific productions of Iran in the field of education was 1046 articles from 2003 to 2012, and the highest one was belonged to Education with 529 articles and Educational Technology with 28 articles was the lowest amount in these productions.

Conclusion: The scientific productions of Iran in the field of education have increasingly grown during 10 years so that Iran is located after Turkey with 31.6 percent growth.

Background and aim: The aim of this study was to determine the co-authorship condition of chemistry researchers in University of Yazd in Web of Science database.

Material and methods: This scientometric study was performed to visualize the co-authorship networks. For data description, Spss and Ravar- matrix software were used and Ucinet and Net draw software were applied to analyze the data.

Findings: The density of co-authorship network was 0.0288 and the results showed that researchers who had high frequency had strong correlations among the faculty members of Yazd University, too.

Conclusion: In general, It can be concluded that there are no many connections between relationships that constitute co-authorship network among faculty members of Yazd University and there is not a high coherence among their co-authorship networks.

Background and aim: Although recent researches have declared the science growth rate and position improvement of Iran in the region of Middle East and Islamic countries, the quality of the science is still lost ring. Due to the lack of study on science quality, the aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the quantity and quality of the science production of Iran vs. Turkey and Malaysia.

Material and methods: In this library-based research, the indices of each country (number of documents, number of citations, mean of citations and Hirsch index) were extracted from SCIMago database.

Findings: Based on the cumulative number of documents and citations, Turkey, Iran and Malaysia are in the first, second and third places, respectively. Iran has been in the first place based on the number of scientific productions and mean of yearly growth rate from 2011. Based on H-index and the number of journals indexed in Scopus, Turkey has been in the first place, Iran and Malaysia have been in the second and third places. Iran, Turkey and Malaysia have been in the first, second and third places, respectively based on Scientific Journal Rankings (SJR).

Conclusion: Although the quantity of Iranian science production and its rate are considerable, this amount is not desirable due to the population. Study the Indices of quality determination shows the growth of Iranian production and scientific journals quality versus Turkey. Although the quantity of Iranian science production and its rate are considerable, this amount is not desirable due to the population. Study the Indices of quality determination shows the growth of Iranian production and scientific journals quality versus Turkey.

Background and aim: Journal Citation Report (JCR) is the oldest and most important database of Journal's assessment. The aim of this study was to determine the IF ranked in JCR database compare to the SJR ranked in SCImago database during a three-year period from 2012 to 2014.

Material and methods: This comparative cross-sectional study was conducted on 38 Library and Information Science journals using scientometric method and the data were collected from Thomson Reuters and Scopus databases.

Findings: According to the findings, there was a positive correlation between the values of IF and SJR in Library and Information Science journals indexed in Scopus and Thompson Reuters databases. In addition, there was a positive relationship between the ranking of these journals indexed in JCR and Scopus (P<0.05).

Conclusion: The result showed that it is necessary to use both of these ranking systems such as Scimago and SJR by the researchers of the field of Library and Information Science.

Background and aim: Small World is one of the existing theories in the social network analysis (SNA), which consists of clusters with local robust connections and a few global connections and shortens the distance between both two nodes of network. The aim of this study was to investigate the small world theory in co-authorship network of Iranian medicine.

Material and methods: This study was conducted using Bibliometrics and SNA methods. Medicine word was surfed in WoS database only on Iran during 2009-2013 years. Finally, the status of this word was analyzed in terms of accordance to small world theory by drawing the co-authorship map.

Findings: The results showed that more than half of researchers in this filed had communicated with each other and shaped a component in which the path length was 6.89 and the clustering coefficient was 0.85 and the index of Small World was 169.79, too.

Conclusion: The relatively short length of path, high coefficient of clustering and also comparing the index of Small World with other researches indicates that there is a Small World.

Background and aim: Now days, university-industry relation is one of the main factors in development. Therefore, because of its importance, the aim of this study was to analyze the relation between university and industry comparatively in Iran and Turkey.

Material and methods: This scientometric study was conducted using citation analysis method and assessment technique. Sample population of this study was all of patents and scientific articles related to Iran and Turkey based on Us-patent and Scopus database. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statics (frequency and percent) and Inferential Tests (Pearson correlation), excel software and SPSS.

Findings: The results of the present study showed that Iran and Turkey had 151159, 258719 scientific articles and 143, 584 patents in Scopus and US-patent database, respectively. In addition, Iran had the highest scientific productions were in technology based on the priorities of A to C and the lowest scientific productions with 5717 was related to the humanities and art field. In the case of patent, the most of it was associated with basic and applied science. Based on priorities, Turkey had the lowest production in the field of tourism and transport and the most production in the health and medicine field.

Conclusion: After more than two decades of the establishment of the Office of the relationship between industry and university in the country, the proper interaction between the two organizations in achieving the desired level in science and technology has not been established.

Therefore, studying the needs of each of two organizations by government and determination of logical way to improve the quality of their products and planning at macro-level are necessary to improve this relationship.

Background and aim: The satisfaction of users is the dynamic and main purpose of each organization. This study aimed at determining the level of clients' satisfaction of library services in Medical Sciences University of Babol.

Material and methods: This analytical and survey study was conducted on 245 users who referred to the libraries of Medical Sciences University of Babol and they were regularly and randomly selected. The data were collected and analyzed by using a researcher-made questionnaire and T-test and ANOVA at a significance level of 0/05, respectively.

Findings: The mean of total scores of users' satisfaction of library services was 3/77 ± 0/66 which was significantly higher than average in Medical Sciences University of Babol (Sig<0.05). Amirkola library with an average of 54/0 ± 48/4 and Zahravi library with an average of 54/0 ± 48/4 among 8 libraries had the highest and lowest satisfaction, respectively. The highest (4/35) and lowest (3/10) level of satisfaction belonged to human and library equipment, respectively, too. The results of ANOVA indicated that the average of users' satisfaction had significant difference (Sig<0.05) with each other in different aspects of all studied libraries.

Conclusion: The clients' satisfaction of library services in Medical Sciences University of Babol was higher than average in all aspects.

Background and aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the condition of Iranian marine scientific outputs related to Persian Gulf and Oman Sea in Web of Science (WoS) during 1992-2013.

Material and methods: Totally, 396 scientific documents were recognized in WoS with the limitations of time and place in the current study. Citation analysis techniques and HistCite software were used to analyze and depict the historiographical map of scientific texts.

Findings: Findings indicated that all 396 documents written by 1036 authors affiliated to 313 organizations were published in 199 journals with 6 different formats in English language. Most documents were published by Iranian Journal of Fisheries Sciences. In addition, the growth rate of annual outputs was %59 and the collaboration coefficient was 0/68 among Iranian researchers. Generally, 5 and 6 thematic clusters have been formed in historiographical map based on the TGCS and TLCS, respectively.

Conclusions: The results showed that the rate of the growth of scientific outputs on the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea basins have increased from one title in 1993 to 80 titles in 2013. The effect of heavy metals on sediment and marine livings, coral reefs and identification of aquatic species are the most important subjects of historiographical map clusters.