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Groundwater contamination has major effects on human health, industrial activity, agriculture, and the environment. The present study determined the concentration of lead, cadmium, arsenic, chromium, and nickel metals in the groundwater around the landfill in Juybar City and compared them with the drinking water standards.

In this descriptive-analytical study, 12 samples were sampled from four wells for three consecutive months. The concentration of heavy elements was measured using the graphite furnace atomic absorption technique (GFAA) based on standard water and wastewater methods. Also, the hardness, temperature, pH, and total dissolved solids (TDS) parameters were measured with portable devices.

Investigations showed that the average concentration of nickel, lead, chromium, and cadmium in well water was 0.0425, 0.0071, 0.0268, and 0.0117 mg/l, respectively. The average concentration of arsenic was not observed in any sample. The average temperature, hardness, pH, and TDS were measured in the range of 20-21°C, 108.66-136.33 mg/L, 7.3-7.36, and 566.25-712.33 mg/L. Also, the correlation coefficient showed a positive correlation between the metals nickel, chromium, lead, and cadmium and the parameters of temperature, hardness, pH, and TDS, as well as with each other at a confidence level of 0.01.

The amount of arsenic, lead, chromium, pH, and hardness are acceptable in the investigated wells for drinking purposes, but the amount of cadmium, nickel, and TDS is higher than the standard.

The current research was conducted to investigate open-access articles written by Iranian researchers. This study examines the amount of scientific impact (citation indices) and social impact (altmetrics indices) of Iranian open-access scientific outputs. The results of this research can provide information about the effectiveness of open-access scientific publications to managers and policymakers in the field of science and technology so that, while being aware of the current situation, they can make the necessary decisions and policies to improve the quality of scientific outputs.

The present research is a descriptive study that has been conducted using scientometrics and altmetrics indicators. The research population comprised of 119168 scientific outputs published by Iranian researchers in open-access journals and indexed by the Web of Science. Data were collected using two products of Clarivate Analytics, namely Web of Science and InCites. Also, the Altmetrics Explorer, a service provided by Altmetric Institute was used for altmetric data collection. Finally, SPSS software was used to perform the correlation test, and because the values of the variables were not normal (the significance of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, p0.01), Spearman's correlation test was used (significance level 0.01). Other research data were analyzed using Excel software (descriptive statistics).

Open-access articles by Iranian researchers grew by 99.9% and the largest number of open-access articles by Iranian researchers have been published in journals with the gold open-access model. Islamic Azad University, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, and Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences had the highest number of articles in open-access journals. Also, the largest number of articles by Iranian researchers have been published in medicine general internal journals (9342), chemistry multidisciplinary (6409), pharmacology pharmacy (5714), and mathematics (5235). The least number of open-access articles have been published in the subject areas of music (1), folklore (1), film, radio, and television (1).While the study of the received citations and the citation rate of the open access outputs of Iranian researchers indicated that the articles published in quality journals are of higher citation, about %40.05 of scientific output has been published in journals without quartile, %15.98 in Q4, %15.5in Q2, %14.34 in Q3, and % 14.11in Q1 journals.The findings showed that Iranian open-access scientific productions have been mentioned a total of 1,364,087 times in different media. The highest amount of attention and mention happened on Twitter (194,463), news (18,483), and Facebook (10,670). The results of correlation tests revealed statistically significant, positive, and poor relationships between the number of citations, altmetric score, mentions on Twitter, mentions on Facebook, and Mendeley readers.

Medical sciences universities of the country have contributed more to the publication of open-access scientific outputs, among the top 20 universities in the country in terms of the number of articles, the names of 10 medical sciences universities are visible. One of the reasons for this is the very important role of open access to medical articles and findings in increasing public awareness and health. With the publication of open access, the speed of access to the latest research and awareness of diseases will increase, and it will increase the level of health, and longevity in all countries of the world.On the other hand, the publication of a significant part of scientific outputs in Non-JCR indexed journals is very worth considering. Most of these journals are indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index. Gold open-access journals often receive very high fees for publishing articles, it is highly necessary to plan to inform researchers about the quality of these journals.

The aim of this study was to investigate the level of attention paid to the scientific outputs of researchers focusing on the Coronavirus and family viruses on social media.

The present research is a descriptive study that has been conducted using scientometric and altmetrics indicators. The research population includes 968 scientific outputs, which have been written by Iranian researchers in different years about COVID 19 or its family viruses.

38% of scientific outputs have been considered 3322 times in social media, 206 times in news and blogs, 39 times in policy and patents, 12 times in other sources, and three times in scientific sources. The average Altmetric scores of Iranian articles published on the Coronavirus are 9.6, and the most attention to these articles shared via Twitter. Also, no correlation was found between the Altmetric score of papers and the number of citations.

Articles on coronary artery disease using stem cells, Iranians fighting Covid 19 despite sanctions, how people function when they get Covid 19, and the effect of Covid 19 on stroke in patients which has been noticed by doctors and researchers and even the public in recent months, has had the most presence on social networks.

This research aims to investigate the presence of research outputs in the field of neuromarketing in social media.Research

The current study is a descriptive study that has been done using scientometric and altmetric indicators. The research population includes 482 research articles, review, editorial material, letters to editor and book chapters that have been published in the field of neuromarketing during different years, and indexed in the Web of Science. Research data were extracted from the Web of Science and Altmetric Explorer databases and then analyzed using Excel and SPSS software.

The highest rate of mentions to scientific research in the field of neuromarketing occurred on Twitter, patents, and Facebook, and the average altmetric score of these publication was 7.35. Also, these publications have been marked and read 23204 times in Mendeley. In addition, the results of running a series of correlation tests revealed statistically significant and positive associations among the number of citations, number of mentions on Twitter, Facebook, and the number of the reader in Mendeley. In other words, the most cited outputs on Twitter, Facebook, and Mendeley have also been more present and mentions.

Altmetrics indicators can be used along with traditional citation indicators to study the effectiveness of research outputs in the field of neuromarketing. Therefore, the familiarity of researchers in this field with alternative metrics and the importance of social media presence in increasing the visibility of scientific products is mandatory.

Iodine is one of the most important essential micronutrients throughout life. Salt is the most important and inexpensive iodized foods in Iran. This study aims to investigate the concentration of iodine of salt in Gorgan and compare it with standards. This study was descriptive-analytical. The sampling was performed on 11 brands of iodized salt in Gorgan,s stores. The iodine content was measured by titration with three replications. The data were analyzed using SPSS software. In this study, the lowest average iodine concentration was observed in the K brand (15.05 µg/g). It did not meet the Ministry of Health standards (30-60 µg/g and 20-50µg/g). It met the WHO, UNICEF, ICCDD standards(15-55µg/g). Also, the brand of J (21.68 µg/g), F (24.62 µg/g), I (28.23 µg/g), and E (23.62 µg/g) did not meet the new standards of the Ministry of Health. The amount of iodine in the salt can be due to its quality in the production stage (e.g. purity) and the time interval from production to consumption. Therefore, continuous monitoring is very important in the chain of production and distribution timely.

This research investigates the citation, usage, reach and readership of scholarly books published by Springer Nature in four areas of Pure Sciences, Engineering, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences within three years after publication.

The current study is a descriptive – correlational research which is conducted using citation, altmetrics and usage-based indicators. The sample of study is comprised of 1184 electronic books from Springer published in 2013. The data was collected from Bookmetrix, Springer’s platform for monitoring the performance of books, which shows the number of citations in Crossref, the number of downloads in SpringerLink, the number of mentions in social media tools and the number of bookmarks in Mendeley. Data analysis was conducted using SPSS.

Results of the study revealed that Springer books in pure sciences were more frequently cited than the other three subject areas. Like citation data, download statistics varied between scientific areas and the highest download count belonged to engineering books. Results showed that books in medicine received more social media attentions compared with those in social sciences, pure sciences and engineering. Regarding Mendeley bookmarks, the engineering books demonstrated the highest number of bookmarks among four studied research areas.All the studied books have been downloaded at-least once, while the proportion of bookmarked, cited and mentioned books was 90.2%, 67.9% and 19.5%, respectively. The highest number of downloads in all four subject areas was occurred 6 to 18 months after publication time. The results of running a series of correlation tests revealed statistically significant and positive associations among the number of citations, downloads, mentions and bookmarks in all four disciplines. Findings revealed that books with more download statistics also accumulated higher citation counts. The relationship between citations and downloads could be bilateral. On the one hand, early download may lead to more citations. On the other hand, documents may gain more attention and be downloaded because they acquire more visibility when they are cited.

The results of the current study provide evidence that usage-based and social media-based metrics could act as the complement of traditional citation-based measures for assessing the impact of books and book chapters in a multidimensional way. This study also provides insights into different types of impact that scholarly books have and how they are being cited, downloaded and discussed in book-oriented and article-oriented disciplines. Librarians’ and researchers’ familiarity with alternative metrics are mandatory.

To investigate the characteristics of misleading metrics and identify the extent to which Iranian journals use such indicators.

Charctrisitcs were harvested form th eliterature. Then, 410 Iranian journals using such metrics were identified from the misleading metrics websites. Data analysis was conducted using Microsoft Excel.

Sudden disappearance from the web, large number of indexed journals, ambiguous and non-scientific methodologies, lack of accurate contact information, failure to notify about the scientific and administarive staff, charging journals for the calculation of metrics and conducting the evaluation in a short period of time were common. The name and information of 410 Iranian journals were listed in the website of 23 misleading metrics, 49 accredited by The Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (MSRT) and 101 titles accredited by The Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MHME) mentioned at-least one misleading metric in their websites. Out of medical science journals 56% are affiliated with the medical science universities and institutions.

Utilizing misleading metrics negatively affect the reputation of scientific journals. That put them at the rist to be listed as as predatory journals. Editorial boards are advised to avoid being indexed in misleading metrics and focus on reputable information and citation databases.