محمدکریم صابری

This research aimed to study the status of providing health information services in public libraries in Tehran, which was conducted based on the views of librarians working in these libraries.

The research method was applied in terms of its purpose and descriptive in terms of data collection, which was conducted as a survey. The statistical population was 150 librarians of public libraries in Tehran. The tool for collecting information was a researcher-made questionnaire. Data analysis was done using SPSS statistical software..

The status of health information resources available in public libraries of Tehran is low and very low in most sources. The level of familiarity of librarians with health and public health issues is %20. The level of familiarity of librarians with selective dissemination of health information services is low and very low with %77.4. The participation rate of librarians in medical information workshops is faced with the non-participation of %70 of librarians. The familiarity of librarians with the services of selective distribution of health information is low and very low. %60 of librarians are not familiar with medical information systems. The percentage of familiarity of librarians with internal medical websites is %60-78 weak. The percentage of familiarity of librarians with foreign international websites in the field of health is average. Librarians consider the main reason for providing selective health information services to improve the level of health literacy in the society. Also, the main obstacle to providing health information dissemination services is the librarian not having enough time to provide services.

The country’s public libraries should consider measures to familiarize librarians with the field of health information and implement policies in this field. Considering the appropriate technical facilities of public libraries in Tehran, it is possible to create and access internal and external health systems and websites. and expanded the sources and documents of librarians’ health information.

This study was conducted with the aim of bibliometric analysis and visualization of the Journal of Islamic and Iranian Traditional Medicine during the years 2010 to 2021.

The present study is a descriptive bibliometric study. The community studied in this research consists of 546 articles from 48 issues and 4 special issues of the Journal of Islamic and Iranian Traditional Medicine from the the first publication (2010) to the end of 2021.The journal website and Scopus database were used to collect the required data. Bibliographic and citation information of all articles were extracted and saved in CSV format. Specifications of all articles were downloaded and saved in ris file format for visualization. After collecting the data, Excel software was used to perform descriptive analysis and VOSviewer was used to visualize the data.

The trend of journal publication and citations is first upward and then downward; so that the number of articles in the journal is ascending and then descending from 2010 to 2016. The trend of received citations is also upward and growing from 2010 to 2012, and then downward and constant. Alireza Ghannadi’s article titled "Necessity, importance, and applications of Traditional Medicine knowledge in different nations" was the most cited article in Scopus with 12 citations. Mohammad Reza Shams Ardekani is the most productive author with 36 articles, and Meysam Shirzad has the most co-authorship with 153 links. Most of the top authors are from Tehran and Isfahan Universities of Medical Sciences. The keywords, traditional medicine with 74 occurrences, traditional Iranian medicine with 46 occurrences, and Persian Medicine with 45 occurrences are the three most frequent keywords in the Journal respectively.

This study has provided a bibliometric analysis and citation analysis of all the articles in the Journal of Islamic and Iranian Traditional Medicine during the years 2010 to 2021. The findings of this study can serve as a guide and roadmap to journalists and assist them in continuing their way.

Paying attention to how to train human resources to administer and perform health-therapeutic services is of particular importance. Career expectations and attitudes that students have about their future careers should be properly known, because career expectations and its role in creating employment and thus economic growth cannot be ignored. For this purpose, it is necessary to have information about the current situation and students' attitudes. Based on this, this study was conducted with the aim of determining the degree of satisfaction of medical librarianship and informatics students of the country's medical sciences universities with their field of study and their views on their field of study and their future careers.

This is a descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study on medical librarianship and information science students of universities of medical sciences offering this field in the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, which include universities of medical sciences in Isfahan, Ahvaz, Bushehr, Tehran, Tabriz, Shahid Beheshti, Kerman, Iran, and Hamadan were conducted. The sample size for this study was estimated to be 148 people. The data collection tool in this study was a questionnaire consisting of two parts. The first part included the demographic characteristics of the students, the second part included 8 questions to measure satisfaction, 9 questions to examine the students' point of view about the field of study, and 4 questions to measure their point of view regarding the future of employment. Questionnaire questions were scored on a five-point Likert scale from very high (5 points) to very low (1 point). Finally, the obtained information was analyzed by descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, average) and analytical tests (independent t and chi-square) using SPSS software version 26 at a significance level of 0.05.

The overall satisfaction of students in the study field of medical librarianship and information was reported as 44.51%. The way of teaching practical and theory courses, personal and personality characteristics of the professors and their academic level from the point of view of average students were mentioned. The most important factor that creates a positive attitude of students towards the field of study was the possibility of serving people and society.

increasing educational facilities and equipment, improving their knowledge about this field and creating conditions to increase job opportunities in order to increase the level of satisfaction and interest in continuing education, as well as proper curriculum planning in this field will be effective.

ResearchGate is one of the most popular social networking websites for scholars. This study aims to investigate the presence of the faculty members of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences (HUMS) on ResearchGate by using an Altmetrics approach.

The study population consists of the profiles of the faculty members from HUMS, Hamedan, Iran on ResearchGate in 2021. For Altmetrics study, first their profiles were visited. Their data were then extracted which included Research items, Total Research Interest, Questions, Answers, Followers, Followings, Reads, Recommendations, RG Score, Citations, and h-index. Their total citations were then extracted from the Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar databases. Finally, the collected data were analyzed in SPSS v. 25 software, using Kolmogorov–Smirnov test and Spearman correlation test.

All faculty members of HUMS had a profile in ResearchGate and 78.31% had joined ResearchGate. The statistical analysis showed a significant positive correlation between RG score and citations on ResearchGate, Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar.

Through active participation in ResearchGate and sharing published studies, medical scholars can make their works more visible and get more citations.

Altmetrics indicators can be used alongside traditional bibliometric concepts based on citation analysis to evaluate the impact of scientific publications via the web. The aim of this study was to analyze the presence of articles of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences in social media to determine the interests of the researchers via social media.

This descriptive study was performed using Altmetric indicators. The statistical population of the study included 3757 research outputs, published by faculty members and researchers of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences in the Scopus citation database from 1992 to the end of 2018. No sampling was performed and all the research outputs were included in the study as a sample size. Excel and SPSS were used to analyze the data.

The results showed that out of 3757 research outputs, 665 outputs (18%) were shared at least once in tools and social networks and had Altmetrics Attention Scores (AAS). Mendeley was one of the most-mentioned social media sites (631 articles, 16.79%). In terms of professional status, Mendeley readers were mostly master students (4594 people). In total, users in more than 64 countries tweeted the research outputs 9707 times. There was a significant positive relationship between Altmetric indicators and citation numbers of the research outputs (P<0.001).

Social media has a positive effect on societal impact and increases the citation rate of scientific research outputs. Therefore, the affiliated researchers can increase their citations, impact and visibility by sharing their work on social media, particularly Mendeley.

Quality of life is one of the most important health issues, and identifying affecting factors can help improve it. On the other hand, one of the most important variables affecting the quality of life is emotional intelligence. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and quality of life in Medical Library and Information Sciences students of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences.

this is descriptive-correlational study that was done on  81 students of Medical Library and Information Sciences at Hamadan University of Medical Sciences. The study data were collected using the sharing emotional intelligence questionnaire (1996) and the Ferrans and Powers Quality of Life questionnaire (1984). All analyzes were performed at the significant level of 0.05..

The results showed that the mean of emotional intelligence and quality of life of students were 113.87 and 137.40, respectively. Data analysis showed that emotional intelligence has a significant effect on quality of life. This means that by increasing one unit of emotional intelligence, the quality of life mean increases 0.68 units.

Considering that we are in the age of changes and challenges in the field of information, it is necessary to focus on the emotional intelligence of library students and increase their quality of life.

Bibliometrics is one of the most common tools for evaluating scientific publications. In recent years, much research has been done in the field of spiritual health. Due to the fact that scientific publications in the field of spiritual health are increasing, the present study was conducted to discover the important actors of scientific publications on spiritual health in the Middle East and Iran.

The present study is an applied type of bibliometric studies that has analyzed the scientific outputs of spiritual health in the Middle East and Iran. The research population included all scientific outputs in the field of spiritual health in the Scopus citation database from the beginning to the end of 2019. Excel computational software was used to analyze the data.

From the beginning to the end of 2019, 644 documents in the field of spiritual health were indexed in Scopus for Middle Eastern countries, of which almost half (48.6% and 313 documents) were published by Iranians. In the section of prolific writers in the field of spiritual health, the strong presence of Iranian writers was evident. Of the five most prolific writers in the Middle East, four were from Iran and one was from Saudi Arabia. At the global level, the field of humanities and at the level of the Middle East and Iran, the field of medical sciences played a significant role in the scientific publications of spiritual health. The results of a survey of institutions and organizations in the field of spiritual health showed that most of the busy organizations and universities in the Middle East are Iranian. Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences and Shiraz University of Medical Sciences are the five most active Iranian universities in the field of spiritual health.

Scientific publications in the field of spiritual health have been on the rise in the last two decades and this growth trend is expected to continue. Iranian publications in the field of spiritual health in the world and the Middle East are quantitatively appropriate, but poor in quality and citation. The number of citations to Iranian documents is also low compared to Middle Eastern countries, which can be addressed through international scientific cooperation. Also, the growth trend of documents in the Middle East and Iran is similar to the world publications, upward and growing.

The present study was conducted with the aim of analyzing the bibliometrics of Koomesh, as one of the oldest and most reputable Iranian medical journals.

This study was conducted using a bibliometric method on the articles published in Koomesh during the years 2006-2017. For this purpose, through advanced search in the Scopus database, 764 papers were extracted and bibliometric and Visualization analysis was carried out using Excel and VOSviewer software.

The publication process of articles and citations received by Koomesh is ascending. The number of articles reached from 14 to 100 articles in 2017 and the number of citations reached from zero citations in 2006 to 289 citations in 2017. The co-authorship map of the journal’s authors showed that Raheb Ghorbani, with 88 articles and 27 links, was the most active author and had the most co-authorship. Considerably, evaluation of organizational affiliation and contributing countries in the journal articles indicated that Semnan University of Medical Sciences was ranked first with 310 organizational affiliations and authors from nine countries participated in the articles received by the journal. According to the co-occurrence map of all 5424 keywords in the articles published in Koomesh, 127 keywords, which were the most frequent keywords in three clusters, had the frequency of 10 and more than 10. The article by Abdolreza Raja'i Fard, Abolfazl Mohammadbeygi and Narges Mohammad Salehi, "Estimation of natural age of menopause in Iranian women: A meta-analysis study" with 20 citations was the most cited article of Komosh in Scopus database.

This study presents a general perspective on Koomesh performance during the years 2006-2017. The findings of this study can serve as a roadmap to journalists and assist them in continuing their way.

The purpose of this study was to identify factors affecting information security management of libraries and information centers of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences.

This study was conducted with quantitative approach and analytical survey method. The statistical population of this study was all managers and librarians of libraries of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences in 2018. evaluation of Content validity of the questionnaire was performed by computing the Content validity Ratio (CVR) and content validity index (CVI). Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used to assess the overall reliability of the questionnaire. The normality of the studied variables was assessed by one-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Also, one-sample t-test and Friedman test were used to evaluate the hypotheses and rankings.

According to the results of the study, executive structures with a mean of 4.46 were in the first rank and with the most effect on the information security management system and human resources structure with a mean of 3.56 in the seventh rank and with the least effect. It is essential for senior managers to enhance security by identifying organization-related security objectives, establishing comprehensive and integrated management, striving to comply with security rules and standards, having adequate resources and budgets, and motivating librarians and informants. To make services more desirable and to take an effective step in enhancing academic productivity.

Originality of work: 

This article was the result of an applied research and has not been published in any other magazine.

  Health literacy is the capacity of individual to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and health services that are necessary for making a good decision. Health literacy is effective in improving the treatment process and reducing healthcare costs. Health literacy is directly connected to humanity. With regard to human complexities and creativity, quantitative evaluation methods are replaced by qualitative methods. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the health literacy of patients with breast cancer.
This qualitative study was conducted using qualitative content analysis. In this study, 18 women with breast cancer were selected using purposive sampling method. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews and continued until data saturation. Data analysis was performed using Nvivo software.
As a result of data analysis, five main themes including channeles, reasons for use, the impact on the life, effective factors on the use, the ability to use and understand health information, and 16 sub-themes were identified.
The interviewees know their doctors as the most reliable health information channel. The main reason for using health information is increasing patients' awareness of disease and treatment process. Health literacy is useful in reducing patients' fear and anxiety

To explore the effect of internal marketing on customer orientation behavior of librarians with mediation of attachment and emotional commitment in public libraries.
135 librarians, selected by random cluster sampling completed four questionnaires including: 1) internal marketing questionnaire, 2) Customer-oriented behavior, 3) job attachment and emotional commitment. The data was analyzed using structural equation analysis with AMOS and PLS software.
Findings: Firstly, the findings showed that the model has a good fit. Secondly, the results showed that internal marketing has a significant effect on customer oriented behavior. Internal marketing also affects job attachment and emotional commitment. Job attachment and emotional commitment also have a significant effect on customer oriented behavior, Finally, job attachment has a positive and significant effect on emotional commitment.
Originality / Value: The merit of this research is the ability of proposing a model to simultaneously assess the internal marketing variables, occupational attachment, emotional commitment, and customer oriented behavior that have not yet been included in a model. Public libraries also have to be committed to human resources according to their vision.

The quality and capabilities of human resources are of the most important factors in the survival, stability and development of an organization. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to find out the effects of librarian's empowerment components on the performance of Iran's public libraries.
This survey was an applied research and used a descriptive, correlational and deductive approach. The main instrument which used in this survey was a questionnaire. To assess the validity of the questionnaire specialist's opinions were achieved and to evaluate its reliability, Cronbach's alpha coefficient was estimated. The research population consisted of all 5900 employees of the Iran's Public Libraries Foundation. Using proportional stratified sampling, 365 subjects were selected as the study sample. Data were analyzed using SPSS software in the form of descriptive and inferential statistics.
FINDINGS: The results of Spearman nonparametric test showed that there was a significantly positive relation between "Specialized skills", "Performance-based remuneration", "Delegation of authority", and "organizational information'' and the performance of Iran's public libraries. The results of the multiple regression analysis showed that 0.58 of changes in the performance of public libraries was due to the impact of librarian's empowerment and other changes were related to other factors. Also, the results of regression analysis showed that "specialized skills training" with 0.31 has the most effect and "performance-based remuneration" with 0.14 has the least effect on the performance of Iran's public libraries.
With using empowerment models and analysis approach, the present study evaluated the effect of librarian's empowerment components on the performance of Iran's public libraries. Therefore, administrators, policy makers and planners can use the results of this research to enhance the effectiveness of public library services and performance.

To identify, analyze and explain the factors impacting entrepreneurship of knowledge and information science students in Iran.
Using structured questionnaire with 6 questions for demographic information and 24 questions for factors affecting entrepreneurship, all knowledge and information science students in Iran were surveyed. Data were analyzed using exploratory factor analysis.
Five factors with above one eigenvalues recognized that were named with titles "skills enhancement", "content", "education", "promote" and "support". These factors explained 74.66% of variances of factors influencing entrepreneurship of knowledge and information science students.
Attention of curriculum planners and knowledge and information science department chairs to five aforementioned factors will increase knowledge and information science student's entrepreneurial and flourish entrepreneurship in the field.

The aim of this research is to investigate the effect of entrepreneurial orientation on organizational performance in Iran public libraries Foundation.
The present study is an applied research. The mode of control variables is Non-experimental and the method of data collection is survey. This research is typically based on structural equation modeling. The main instrument for data collection was a questionnaire with 15 questions for entrepreneurial orientation and 12 questions for organizational performance. The study population consisted of all employees in the Iran public libraries Foundation. Using simple random sampling, 500 as the sample chosen and research questionnaire was distributed among them. Data were analyzed using LISREL and SPSS software’s.
Findings: The results of the entrepreneurial orientation model showed that five dimensions of innovation, risk taking, competitive aggressiveness, leadership and independence are major factors influencing on establishment of the entrepreneurial orientation in the Iran public libraries Foundation. Results indicated that correlation of innovation with entrepreneurship and the impact that it has on entrepreneurship is more than risk taking, competitive aggressiveness, leadership and independence. Also the results of organizational performance model showed that Efficiency Programs, Effectiveness of activities, Patrons Satisfaction and employee satisfaction explain the organizational performance of the Iran public libraries Foundation. Finally, the results of the structural model showed that entrepreneurial orientation has a significantly positive effect on organizational performance of Iran public libraries Foundation.
Originality/Value: The present study is a comprehensive study that investigates the effects of entrepreneurial orientation on organizational performance Iran public libraries Foundation. Therefore, administrators, policy makers and Planners can use the results of this research will enhance the effectiveness of public library services.

This study aims at the analysis of scientific publications that have been written by Iran Public Libraries Foundations’ employees and provides a picture of their research-scientific activities. this work is an applied research with a descriptive-analysis approach. The research population consists of scientific presentations at the First National Festival of Scientific Research of Iran Public Libraries Foundation. Data were collected through the festival database. Analysis of data was performed with SPSS Software version 18. The findings show that the number of publications by the employees has reached 469 works since the establishment of Foundation up to 2011. In comparison to the other publication types، the most works were published in the form of article. The highest number of scientific publications belongs to the 2010 and the lowest one to the 2007. Except for 2004، the scientific publications of employees have had a positive growth rate. This rate ranges between -0. 39 (in 2004) and 1. 88 (in 2003). The Chi-square test showed a significant difference between gender and discipline of employees and the type of their scientific publications. On the other hand، there was not a significant difference between the scientific degree of employees and the type of scientific publications. Originality/Value: To date there is not any comparative research on the scientific publications written by the employees of Iran Public Libraries Foundations. Therefore، the results of this study might be useful for managers، planners، policy makers of Iran public libraries foundations.

This research aimed to conduct content analysis of the theses abstracts of library and information science (LIS) postgraduate students’ work completed at the Tehran North Branch and Science and Research Branch of the Islamic Azad University. Methodology/Approach: The research method was content analysis and the information gathering tool was a checklist. The study population contained all the Farsi abstracts of postgraduate students’ theses in LIS at Tehran North Branch and Science and Research Branch of the Islamic Azad University during a seven-year period (from the beginning of 2001 to the end of 2007), among which 156 theses were finally selected through random sampling. The findings of this research show that most of the theses were done in 2007 at the Science and Research Branch. Most of the theses used surveys and benefited from questionnaires as their information gathering tool. The results of this research show that the subjects of the theses studied are mostly in Information Technology and Information Communication and the least attractive subject of these theses is Management.

Web citations (URLs) are at risk of decay and can be easily fade because of the variable and unstable nature of the internet. So, the purpose of this research was to assess web citation accessibility and decay of articles published in journal of the medical library association (JMLA). In this applied– descriptive study, JMLA articles (231) in a seven year period (from 2002 to 2008) downloaded from magazines archives and the articles that have web citation (175), determined. Then, all of URLs were tested to specify their accessibility and decay. When we failed to directly access the URLs, we used Internet Explorer, Internet Archive and Google search engine to access missing URLs. Obtained data analyzed using Excel software to determine the half-life of web citations and the reasons for the URL failure. Then gathered the result of these tests and analyzed them using Microsoft Excel to distinguish cause of these failure and to count web citations half-life. 76 percent of articles had web citation and the average of web citation per article was 5 URL. From 1049 cited URL, 31 percent was inaccessible, but by searching these URLs, the decay decreased to 13 percent. The majority of errors were the 404 (not found) and the average of web citations half-life was approximately 7 years. The decay of URLs is a big problem that can not be ignored because URLs are increasingly used and lost in scientific articles, the decay of URLs will continue until better preservation policies (such as internet archive) are adopted.

The present research aims to examine the availability and decay of Internet references cited in five open access journals indexed in ISI. This is an applied research categorized in group of descriptive and quantitative studies. Its population is composed of 748 articles published from 2002 to late 2007 by these five journals. Afterwards, all Internet citations (URLs) were extracted and thus, 3734 URLs were identified. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics and needed tables and diagrams were drawn by means of Excel software (version 2007). Research findings indicated that at first check, out of 3734 URLs, 73% were accessible while 27% disappeared. It is notable that rate of availability increased to 89% and rate of decay decreased to 11% after searching gone URLs through the Internet, Internet archive and Google. Domain. net with availability of 96% (decay, 4%) has more stability and persistence compared to other domains. And, the most stable file is PDF with availability of 93% (decay, 7%). Additionally, most of errors were related to message "404 not found" (43%), and the average half-life for cited Internet resources is estimated to be 8 years and 9 months. Finally, some suggestions and recommendations have been offered to stop decay phenomenon.