Hossein Ghalavand; Sirous Panahi; Shahram Sedghi
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The present study sought to identify the supportive roles of social media in healthcare knowledge management processes, including decision-making, popularizing health knowledge, and empowerment of healthcare processes based on physicians' perspectives and experiences. In a present qualitative study, ...
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The present study sought to identify the supportive roles of social media in healthcare knowledge management processes, including decision-making, popularizing health knowledge, and empowerment of healthcare processes based on physicians' perspectives and experiences. In a present qualitative study, a semi-structured interview was administered to 28 physicians using purposive snowball sampling. The data analysis was done using the thematic analysis method by MAXQDA 10. The analysis of interviews resulted in the extraction of three themes and eight sub-themes. Firstly, social media supports physicians' decision-making by facilitating peer-to-peer assistance, increasing benchmarking, and virtualizing the community of practices. Secondly, physician activities in social media can popularize health knowledge by developing public health education and disclosing knowledge claims. Third, social media empower healthcare processes by improving post-treatment follow-up, supporting health counseling presentations, and promoting health awareness. Physicians’ experiences and perspectives showed that social media can support healthcare knowledge management implementation.
Information Management
zahra kianrad; seyfollah andayesh; Siamak Mahboub
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Measuring the maturity of KM allows the organization to know how to manage its knowledge and provides an infrastructure on which the organization's KM roadmap is created. With libraries and information centers with educational and research environments, the Iran Public Libraries Foundation is one of ...
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Measuring the maturity of KM allows the organization to know how to manage its knowledge and provides an infrastructure on which the organization's KM roadmap is created. With libraries and information centers with educational and research environments, the Iran Public Libraries Foundation is one of the most susceptible organizations to establish KM. Requires measuring the maturity of KM to provide necessary grounds for reaching a higher level of maturity in knowledge management development. This study aimed to measure the maturity of KM in the Iran Public Libraries Foundation based on the Asian Productivity Organization framework. The study is an applied survey research. The data was collected using the Asian Productivity Organization (APO) standard questionnaire. The reliability of the questionnaire was 0.9, according to Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The research population consisted of 115 people who were selected by cluster sampling. Excel and SPSS were used to analyze the data. Pearson correlation test, One-sample T-test, and Kolmogorov–Smirnov test were used to measure the mean of the seven knowledge management (KM) maturity criteria, and the Friedman nonparametric test was used to rank the criteria groups. The maturity level of KM in Iran, Public Libraries Foundation, was seven groups below the KM Framework of APO. The readiness of the library for KM was determined the initial stage. The results of ranking the seven groups of KM maturity criteria showed that information technology and leadership stood in the highest and the lowest ranks, respectively. Topdown ranking of other criteria was as follows: knowledge processes, process, learning and innovation, KM results, and staff. Finally, the research proposals were presented based on the results of the studied organization's current situation.
Informatics and Information Technology
Aang Anwarudin; Abdul Fadlil; Anton Yudhana
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Academic information systems (AIS) at universities provide convenience to students in online campus administrative activities. Universitas Muhammadiyah Gombong (UNIMUGO) has an academic information system. The realization of quality academic and administrative services is one of the university's efforts ...
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Academic information systems (AIS) at universities provide convenience to students in online campus administrative activities. Universitas Muhammadiyah Gombong (UNIMUGO) has an academic information system. The realization of quality academic and administrative services is one of the university's efforts in building and developing AIS. This study uses e-ServQual and WebQual 4.0 methods to determine the quality of AIS services. This study aims to determine the impact of AIS quality on user satisfaction by comparing E-Servqual and Webqual 4.0. The respondents' data were analyzed by linear regression. The study's findings indicate which method is best for assessing the service quality of the AIS system, as well as additional recommendations for Universitas Muhammadiyah Gombong to assess the success of the existing AIS system. Questionnaires were distributed to 100 students by Google Forms. Data analysis utilizes multiple linear regressions to determine the level of influence between the independent variables (e-Servqual and WebQual 4.0) and the dependent variable (user satisfaction). The research results from hypotheses H1 and H2 equally state that the quality of the AIS system has a positive and significant effect on user satisfaction. Analyzing the e-ServQual results showed that the AIS system was of medium quality, while the WebQual 4.0 method was of excellent quality. The results of data analysis on the e-ServQual method showed that the independent variable could affect user satisfaction by 66.1% and 33.9% influenced by other variables. The WebQual 4.0 method showed that the independent variable could affect user satisfaction by 85.1% and 14.9% influenced by other variables.
Informatics and Information Technology
Fatemeh Alipour Yami; Masoumeh Tajafari; Mohsen Nowkarizi
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This study aimed to identify the quality of web pages retrieved by Parsijoo and Parseek Persian search engines and Google to respond to students' course-related queries. This study was conducted using evaluations from a researcher-made checklist. The first population included Persian and Google ...
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This study aimed to identify the quality of web pages retrieved by Parsijoo and Parseek Persian search engines and Google to respond to students' course-related queries. This study was conducted using evaluations from a researcher-made checklist. The first population included Persian and Google search engines selected from Persian, Parsijoo, and Parseek search engines. The second population included the keywords of the section for collecting data from the fourth, fifth, and sixth-grade elementary school science textbooks, from which 12 keywords were selected by simple random sampling. The third population included web pages retrieved for each keyword by search engines. From the first ten results retrieved in each keyword search, relevant pages were selected as the sample. The results revealed that the quality of the web pages retrieved by all three search engines, i.e., Parsijoo, Parseek, and Google, was above average. However, there was a significant difference between the engines regarding the number of relevant results. This is the first study investigating the quality of web pages retrieved by search engines to respond to students' course-related queries. The study results can help the designers and developers of Persian search engines improve their performance in retrieving high-quality pages and gaining a proper place among Iranian users.
Camia Lasig
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The online public access catalog (OPAC) is a digital portal to the library's collection that allows users to search, locate, and access a wide range of academic resources. One of its key functions is to make books and other library materials easily accessible and retrievable. The main purpose of ...
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The online public access catalog (OPAC) is a digital portal to the library's collection that allows users to search, locate, and access a wide range of academic resources. One of its key functions is to make books and other library materials easily accessible and retrievable. The main purpose of this study was to assess students’ awareness and use of the OPAC in the Central Luzon State University Library. The data were gathered using a survey questionnaire. The frequency, percentage, and weighted mean were analyzed, and the data was interpreted. The findings show that students widely use OPAC, though not all of them are aware of all of the functions that OPAC provides. Findings also indicate that a lack of proper orientation and a lack of OPAC terminals are the main reasons for not using the OPAC. The vast majority of students were satisfied with the OPAC. However, a small percentage of students remain dissatisfied with it. This insight is essential for libraries to better alter and tailor their systems, services, and instructional programs to suit their student population's evolving needs and technological expectations.
Citation Analysis
Marzieh Kohandel Jahromi
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The present study was conducted to draw the co-authorship network of hot papers of science citation index in the Web of Science (WOS) database from 2020 to 2021. This investigation is a descriptive study using a scientometrics approach. This research was conducted using social network analysis indices ...
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The present study was conducted to draw the co-authorship network of hot papers of science citation index in the Web of Science (WOS) database from 2020 to 2021. This investigation is a descriptive study using a scientometrics approach. This research was conducted using social network analysis indices to visualize the co-authorship networks of hot papers in the science citation index. The structure of the co-authorship network of researchers of hot papers in the field of science consists of 47,045 authors who have contributed to the publication of 3475 hot papers from 2020 to 2021, which indicates the high co-authorship of these authors. Moreover, it was found that among the co-authorship patterns of these researchers, the most significant number of articles during the studied years was related to the five-author collaborations. Moreover, the average Collaboration Coefficient (CC) of the authors of hot papers was higher than 0.80, indicating the authors' strong tendency to produce joint articles. The high collaboration of the authors of hot papers in the science citation index can be one of the reasons for increasing the level of visibility and the potential for using them.
Scientometrics
Mohammad Ahmadian; Hamzeh Mazaherilaghab; Hossein Vakilimofrad
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In this study, we aimed to comprehensively analyze the altmetric indices of 1000 highly cited articles in the field of cancer, considering the growing importance of social media-based indicators as complementary tools alongside traditional bibliometric indicators for evaluating scientific outputs. ...
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In this study, we aimed to comprehensively analyze the altmetric indices of 1000 highly cited articles in the field of cancer, considering the growing importance of social media-based indicators as complementary tools alongside traditional bibliometric indicators for evaluating scientific outputs. Cancer research is a critical area in the medical community, being the second leading cause of death after cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Conducted as a cross-sectional descriptive study, the bibliographic information of the research sample was obtained from the Scopus citation database. Data about the social media presence and altmetric attention scores (AAS) of each article were collected from the journal and altmetric.com. Subsequently, Excel and SPSS software were employed for analysis. Among the reviewed articles, 96.3% were shared on social media at least once, with Mendeley (99.6%), Patents (86.3%), and CiteULike (66.3%) being the most commonly used altmetric sources. The article titled "Dermatologist-level classification of skin cancer with deep neural networks," published in the Nature journal, obtained the highest AAS of 2864. Additionally, the majority of tweeters and readers were from the USA. Tweeters were predominantly members of the public, while readers were primarily professionals in medicine and dentistry, including PhD students. Spearman tests indicated a statistically significant moderate correlation between AASs and citations (r= 0.283, p-value< 0.001). Similarly, a significant weak correlation was observed between the journals' Impact Factor (IF) (r= 0.217) and CiteScore (r= 0.133) with the number of citations (p-value < 0.001). The findings of this study emphasize the positive impact of social media-based indicators on the number of citations received by scientific articles, making them valuable complementary measures alongside traditional citation indicators for evaluating research impact. We recommend that journals, authors, and researchers actively use social media platforms to enhance the visibility of their work and attract more citations.
Mousumi Saha; Aditi Roy; Saptarshi Ghosh
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Literary warrants on 'Digital Citizenship' published since its inception are still countable. The search executed to identify the bibliometric literature on ‘Digital Citizenship’ retrieved a meager outcome. Therefore, the study was pivoted with the data retrieved from the SCOPUS database. ...
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Literary warrants on 'Digital Citizenship' published since its inception are still countable. The search executed to identify the bibliometric literature on ‘Digital Citizenship’ retrieved a meager outcome. Therefore, the study was pivoted with the data retrieved from the SCOPUS database. By utilizing normalized data and citation analysis to evaluate the influence across the various groupings, it is possible to see an almost linear rise in 2021 on the topic. Statistical and visual modeling software tools (R-Biblioshiny, Bibliometrix) were used in the study. It examines what this means for how bibliometric methodologies are used and disseminated in various situations. The study by the authors addressed bibliometric analysis and categorization of articles as per Ribble and Choi. Moreover, the paper discussed three field Plots (Sources-Keywords-Authors) and the most relevant authors. Furthermore, the study tried to testify to the fitness of Bradford's Law, trending topics on the subject, co-occurrence network by keywords, topic growth over the year, and a thematic map of topics from 1999 to 2022. The results were quite impressive. out of a total of 377 articles on digital citizenship, a scattering of subjects with numerous overlapped concepts like digital literacy, digital competence, higher education, technology, digital divide, cyber-bullying, information literacy, digital citizenship education, privacy, secondary education, adolescents, digital education, empowerment, primary education, university students have been identified.
Narges Neshat; Anahita Kermani
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patents are a significant competitive strategy to categorize commercial value based on the source information of technology; researchers use patent analysis as a practical tool to infer various types of information. This shows how important it is to retrieve and access them. Clustering is a method ...
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patents are a significant competitive strategy to categorize commercial value based on the source information of technology; researchers use patent analysis as a practical tool to infer various types of information. This shows how important it is to retrieve and access them. Clustering is a method used in different fields to group similar natures. Citations are commonly used to cluster documents, and two methods are widely used for this purpose. The first method uses bibliographic coupling, and the second method identifies the words in the citation titles, also called co-citation. However, it is necessary to investigate which methods provide better patent clustering and retrieval results. This study examines citation contents instead of citations in building relevant groups of patents. Experimental research was done on a set of US patents. The analysis is divided into three phases. The first is appropriate databases to conduct patent searches according to the subject and objective of this study. The basic inventions and the experimental set were selected. Phase II, for developing a patent clustering system based on patent similarities and assisting the relationships among categories, we used fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering because it can handle overlapping clusters similar to k-means. As fuzzy clustering is a kind of overlapping clustering, extended B Cubed precision and recall - measures for evaluating overlapping clustering - were used. Since patents can belong to multiple technology domains, in phase III, a Perl program was written to manage the matching process. The study involved creating two patent clusters using bibliographic coupling and citation title words, respectively. The results indicated that the bibliographic coupling method produced better clustering performance than the citation title words. Moreover, the cluster structure was more extensive in terms of exhaustivity than the citation title words. It's interesting to note that the use of cited patent title words resulted in a reduction of nearly 40% of the number of attributes. Additionally, when compared to the use of bibliographic coupling, the cited title words method had a nearly equal recall of clustering by cited patents in high exhaustivity. As a result, it appears that using cited title words may be preferable when the high exhaustivity approach is selected for patent clustering and retrieval.
Scientometrics
fatemeh Alinezhad; Saeideh Mirhaghjoo Langerudi
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Scientific productions result from researchers’ thoughts and efforts; when published in credible journals or indexed by valid databases and cited by other researchers, they gain credibility. Publications also gain more credibility when they are indexed in actual and valid citation databases. ...
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Scientific productions result from researchers’ thoughts and efforts; when published in credible journals or indexed by valid databases and cited by other researchers, they gain credibility. Publications also gain more credibility when they are indexed in actual and valid citation databases. The publication of scientific products in these databases increases visibility and the possibility and opportunity to increase their citations. The present research aims to investigate the factors effective in citing the articles published in Iranian journals with Impact Factor (IF) indexed in Journal Citation Reports (JCR) 2020. This applied study was done using scientometric indices. The research population consisted of Iranian publications with IF indexed in the JCR in 2020. Microsoft Excel was employed for data collection, and SPSS software was used for data analysis. The results showed that Iran, with 27,446 citations, acquired about 17% of citing Iranian publications with IF indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (WOSCC). Also, 53.31% of articles had an organizational affiliation (publishers and publishing country) to public universities. The variables “subject area, multiple authorship, number of references, and inter-university cooperation” positively and significantly correlated with the number of citations the Iranian publications with IF indexed in the WOSCC had received (citation rate). Also, the number of keywords, length of article titles, and inter-university scientific collaboration had no significant collaboration with the citation rate.
Social Networks
Nadia Saniee; Homa Arshadi
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Besides scientific impact, papers can also achieve a technological impact that remains less known in the scientific community. Cited papers in the patents are considered as the index to measure the technological impact. This study aimed to analyze the technological impact of Iranian publications ...
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Besides scientific impact, papers can also achieve a technological impact that remains less known in the scientific community. Cited papers in the patents are considered as the index to measure the technological impact. This study aimed to analyze the technological impact of Iranian publications using co-authorship and co-word map, their evolution, the journals, and the subject areas of these publications. This applied research focuses on the quantitative study and visualization with a scientometric approach. The research population was all studies (4554 records) that were published during 2011-2020 in one of the Iranian institutions and had been cited by one of the international patents. The data collection tool was the SciVal database. CiteSpace and Excel spreadsheets were used to analyze the data. Of the 4,554 papers cited by the scholarly outputs that have been cited in patents e patents, most of them were published in collaboration with the USA (9%). Islamic Azad University and Tehran University of Medical Sciences (13% each) were the most active Iranian universities. The number of Iranian papers cited in patents had a downward trend from 686 in 2011 to 57 in 2020. RSC Advances journal was the first top journal to publish these papers. Of 27 subject areas, engineering (24.1%) was the first popular subject that patents cite in their publications. The cluster analysis of keywords identified 8 clusters, including “x-ray diffraction,” “animal,” “adult,” “escherichia coli,” “tissue engineering,” “coronavirus infection,” “neural network,” and “methane.” The technological impact of Iranian research has declined in recent years. It is suggested that research policymakers should consider scholarly outputs that have been cited in patents, which, in a way, shows the flow of knowledge to the industry and encourages researchers to produce such papers.
Henry Chukwudi JOHN; Ahmed Olakunle Simisaye; Toluwani Joanna Iseyemi
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In recent times, authors of academic publications have depended on web resources. However, there have been some concerns raised on the permanency of e-resources on the web. In this context, this article investigated the availability, missing and recovery of Uniform Resource Locator (URL) citations cited ...
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In recent times, authors of academic publications have depended on web resources. However, there have been some concerns raised on the permanency of e-resources on the web. In this context, this article investigated the availability, missing and recovery of Uniform Resource Locator (URL) citations cited in articles in the African Journal of Library, Archive and Information Science (AJLAIS) published between 2008 and 2017 using Internet Archive. A total of 986 URL citations in 129 research articles published in LIS journals were extracted. The finding showed that URL citations of the journal grew during the years 2008-2017 Finding further revealed that 986 represented 28.88% of the total 3414 references that appeared in the journal in the period under review. Of the total cited web citations 986 web citations 310(31.4%) were not accessible and 676 (68.6%) were accessible. This article adopted a W3C link checker to detect HTTP errors linked with missing URLs. HTTP 500 error messages (‘page not found’) were majorly the irresistible messages that denoted 20 per cent of all HTTP error messages. The highest percentage of missing URLs were associated with commercial domains. The attempt to recover 310 missing URL citations through Internet Archive increased the active web citations from 676 to 918 which accounted for 93.1% of active URL citations. This study further showed a negative correlation between path depth and missing URL citations. The statistical analysis of this research indicated that the number of citations and URL citations are positively correlated.
University Library
Abdalrasool Khosravi; Reza Rajabali Beglou; Zahra Safaei
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A high volume of information can be provided to users regarding library services by branding Iranian medical libraries and information centers, and the position of libraries can be significantly improved. There is a minimal number of studies in this field in Iran. This study mainly aims to identify ...
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A high volume of information can be provided to users regarding library services by branding Iranian medical libraries and information centers, and the position of libraries can be significantly improved. There is a minimal number of studies in this field in Iran. This study mainly aims to identify key branding components and create differentiation in the context of Iranian medical libraries and information centers (IMLICs). This study was conducted in two steps: (i) the literature on branding in libraries and information centers in reliable databases such as Scopus, Science Direct, Emerald, and Google Scholar was first reviewed, and finally, 33 studies were identified. Four components, such as librarians, services, building, and equipment, as well as technology, were found as important factors in the branding of public and academic libraries. (ii) A semi-structured interview was conducted with 14 managers and heads of libraries of Iranian medical sciences universities. The results showed the most important branding components in ILMIC as librarians, services, buildings and equipment, and technology. According to the results librarians' performance and personality characteristics, dynamization of specialized and general services, paying attention to the architecture of the library building and the installation and use of the equipment, and finally, the intelligent use of technologies and a strategic look at these components will lead to the formation of a positive mental image of Iranian medical libraries in the public mind, increase awareness of their services, and as a result, users' trust, loyalty, and satisfaction. Librarians play an important role in raising the users' awareness, trust, and loyalty toward library services and their branding. Hiring librarians with positive internal and external characteristics can have a positive image of libraries in the users' minds. Providing high-quality services required by users is essential in differentiating and branding libraries and building users' trust and loyalty. Providing virtual services in libraries is essential in promoting branding goals. A unique look at the libraries' architecture helps to create a positive image of libraries and information centers. Well-designing the interior and exterior of library facilities will create a positive mental image among users. Applying the technological equipment alongside the expert staff creates a brand and raises the users' awareness, trust, and loyalty. Empowering librarians in using emerging technologies is an obligation in this era. IMLICs have branding capabilities in the four main components of the library regarding librarians, services, building and equipment, and technology. Development of human resources, services, building and equipment, and technology should be planned so that its output is users' awareness about the library brand and the creation of a positive mental image towards the library function. It keeps the users' trust and loyalty towards the library and finally makes users the ambassadors and missionaries to promote the library via word-of-mouth marketing following their satisfaction.
Science Policy
Majid Nabavi; Alireza Nikseresht; Maryam Ghobadi
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Communicating science to the public is one of the important issues in societies. Given the importance of news websites in communicating science, this article aimed to examine different aspects of science-related news stories like subjects, internationality, formats, and readers’ comments rate, ...
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Communicating science to the public is one of the important issues in societies. Given the importance of news websites in communicating science, this article aimed to examine different aspects of science-related news stories like subjects, internationality, formats, and readers’ comments rate, published on the Iranian national news websites. Contents of 1711 science-related news of the top three ranked influential Iranian news websites, including ISNA, Mehr News, and Fars News, in one month in 2019, using the Dewey decimal classification (DDC) schema and inductive coding system, were analyzed. The results revealed that science and technology-related news stories published in the sample news websites have a bias toward international technology as the main subject class, and astronomy and medicine subclasses in the textual format. Like other developing countries, science reporting in Iran needs to be more professional, and there is a need for professional training programs for science journalists for better coverage of science-related news stories.
Library and Information Science
Adebowale Jeremy Adetayo
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This descriptive survey research design aimed to explore gender differences in the impact of social media distractions during reading in the library among undergraduate students. The study included a total of 373 participants who were regular library users and had access to social media platforms. A ...
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This descriptive survey research design aimed to explore gender differences in the impact of social media distractions during reading in the library among undergraduate students. The study included a total of 373 participants who were regular library users and had access to social media platforms. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data, and the findings indicated that social media, particularly messaging on WhatsApp, was the most distracting activity for students in the library. Males reported more distraction than females for platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Telegram. Reading and responding to social media messages was the most common social media activity among students in the library. The majority of participants perceived social media to harm their reading habits, with a higher number of females perceiving social media as harming their reading habits compared to males. The study recommends that libraries and educational institutions develop clear policies and guidelines on the use of social media in libraries, provide resources aimed at helping students manage social media distraction and improve their reading habits, and offer training to staff members on how to identify and address social media distractions among students.
