مقالات رزومه دکتر فروغ رحیمی

The main objective of this research is to rank Iranian-indexed journals in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) 2020 based on the Journal Citation Index (JCI). Additionally, the study aims to investigate the significant correlation between the JCI and other metrics such as Eigenfactor, Article Influence Score (AIS), Quartile, and Journal Impact Factor (JIF). Among them, forty Iranian journals are indexed in three main citation indexes and have received Journal Impact Factor (JIF) and Quartile rankings for the first time, which also reported their Journal Citation Index (JCI). However, the ranking of these Iranian journals based on the new JCI is not specified. More importantly, the study does not examine the significant correlation between JCI and other indices such as Eigenfactor, AIS, Quartile, and JIF. Therefore, this research aims to rank Iranian journals indexed in JCR 2020 based on the Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) and investigate the significant correlation of this index with Eigenfactor, Article Influence Score (AIS), Quartile, and Journal Impact Factor (JIF). The main focus of this research is to determine whether changes in the value of the new index (JCI) will correspond to changes in the old indices (Eigenfactor, AIS, Quartile, and JIF). Therefore, this article aims to investigate the mentioned issues and provide scientific and accurate answers. 

The present research is applied and has been conducted using scientometric indices and an analytical approach. The required data for the research was extracted from JCR 2020. All Iranian journals in JCR 2020 with an Impact Factor (IF) and Quartile, totaling forty journals, formed the research population. In this article, five research questions have been posed. Iranian journals and their corresponding indices were extracted from JCR 2020. They were then ranked and reported in a table based on JCI to address the first question. To address the second to fifth research questions, which investigate the significant relationship between JCI and Eigenfactor, AIS, Quartile, and JIF, the Shapiro-Wilk test was initially used to assess the normality of the distribution of the relevant data for Eigenfactor, AIS, Quartile, and JIF. The results of the Shapiro-Wilk test indicated that the data related to Eigenfactor and AIS followed a normal distribution, while the data related to JIF did not. Therefore, to investigate the significant relationship between JCI and Eigenfactor and AIS, the Pearson correlation coefficient was used. Additionally, to study the significant relationship between JCI and JIF, Spearman's rho correlation coefficient was employed. Additionally, when examining the relationship between JCI and Quartile, it is important to note that Quartile only has four levels (Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4). Therefore, the Kendall's tau b test was used. This test is used when the data under investigation is on an ordinal scale. 

"Iranian Journal of Fuzzy Systems," "International Journal of Health Policy and Management," and "BioImpacts" ranked first, second, and third, respectively, in JCI with scores of 65.1, 15.1, and 99.0. A positive and significant correlation between JCI and Eigenfactor (R=44.0, P<0.006) indicates a statistical relationship. There is a positive and significant correlation between JCI and Article Influence Score (AIS) (R=73.0, P<0.0001), suggesting that an increase in JCI is associated with an increase in AIS. There is a negative and significant correlation between JCI and Q (R=-64.0, P<0.0001), implying that an increase in JCI is associated with a decrease in Q. In summary, the results suggest that JCI is positively related to Eigenfactor and AIS but negatively related to Q. These findings can have implications for evaluating the impact and influence of academic journals. 

The JCI can be a complementary indicator with the JIF. Many indicators have been introduced to cover JIF's weaknesses, but JIF is still the most famous indicator. The passage of time will show that the JCI will also suffer the fate of the previous indicators or, as a new and unique indicator, will remove the authority and acceptance of the JIF after half a century.

Previous research has shown that the number of open access documents in the world is increasing. Although the speed of this phenomenon is worthy of attention, some supporters of science want this process to be faster. One of the important challenges of open access for the country is to cover its relatively high costs, and along with that, due to sanctions, it is also important to predict the methods of paying these costs. Anticipating the necessary arrangements in this field, including credit provision, policy making and cultural building, requires knowledge of the speed of progress of free access in the world. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the trend of open access development worldwide and its impact on Iran's international scientific standing and to provide solutions in this field.

This research is an applied and survey-based study, conducted with a bibliometric approach. The study population consists of the data on 23 years of golden open access obtained from Clarivate and Incites.

The trend towards open access publishing is expected to continue in the most prestigious journals worldwide in the next 10 to 13 years. However, the growth rate of this trend is not uniform across all fields. The findings indicate that over the past five years, Iran ranks fifth among the countries with the lowest percentage of open access documents. This is happening while the share of open access documents is increasing rapidly in most countries. Also, major publishers are rapidly increasing their share of open access documents. Additionally, while journals with higher impact factors tend to publish more open access documents, the proportion of open access documents in journals with different citation degrees is relatively consistent.

The future of open access will be affected by the approach of financial sponsors in science, publishers and universities and research centers, but sooner or later a large part of the articles will be published as open access, an issue that will affect the future of the country's scientific position, especially with regard to financial dimensions. It will have a significant impact. The development of international scientific interactions, the development of interactions with financial sponsors of international science, policy-making, cultural creation and funding are the solutions facing this phenomenon. The formation of a consortium to pay the cost of processing articles as a unit at the country level and the formation of a consortium that includes both the subscription of databases and the payment of the cost of processing articles are among the solutions that increase the possibility of bargaining with publishers. Adding the country's science and technology funds to this consortium will increase the possibility of bargaining again.

The present study aims to visualize the research articles on monotheistic/Abrahamic religions‎, including Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, to identify and picture the subjects addressed in religious studies in the 21st century.

This is applied research adopting a scientometrics approach in doing co-word analysis. The research population consists of all WoS-indexed articles on monotheistic religions‎ published in the 21st century.

The results revealed four subject clusters of Islamic studies, including Islamic traditions and thoughts, Islamophobia, business and financial affairs in Islam, and Islamic countries. The research on Christianity appeared to focus on Christianity connections with other religions, including Judaism and Islam, and Christian thoughts and beliefs. The research on Judaism clustered was around the Jewish population, the role of women and family, and the connection of Judaism with Christianity and the Holocaust. It seems that interfaith interactions and beliefs are a shared research interest in monotheistic religion studies. While a cluster of Islamic studies focuses on Islamophobia, war, and terrorism, the natural face of Islam is not accurately represented in social media. In this regard, Islamic studies received more traditional and social citations. Findings showed that out of 27143 indexed articles related to Islamic research on the WoS, 4829 articles were reflected in 16 social media. The results also showed that the most active Twitter, Facebook, news media, and policy documents are USA, England, and Australia. Among the Islamic nations, Indonesians are the most active users of social media. Iran ranks eighth in terms of the number of articles. The altmetric scores of the most cited Iranian and non-Iranian articles were 768 and 73, respectively. The subject of the former was Islamophobia, and the latter addressed fasting in Islam.

The significance of the study lies in the insights it provides for religious and research policymakers to use the context of social media, rather than filtering them, in promoting the subjects addressed in the research articles.

Considering the development of social web, its capacities in publishing research findings, researchers’ tendency in utilizing social web to increase their visibility, beside the importance to answer the question of how to measure the research social impact, the present study attempts to provide new insights into the amount of scientific and social users' attention to climate variability articles and do co-occurrence analysis of the key terms. This is to provide scholars with a knowledge visualization in the field and help them identify central or neglected issues.

The current applied research was conducted through altmetrics method along with the use of co-word analysis. The climate variability articles analyzed using descriptive and analytic statistics in Excel, VoS viewer and SPSS version 20.

The results showed that a number of 2755 articles in the field received 89129 citations over the past 41 years. The most cited article published in 2000, received 1458 citations. The growth rate of the publications in the field was 2366 percent with the largest number of annual publications in 2017. The United States, China and Germany contributed the largest number of articles, respectively, while Iran ranked 43. From among 2556 articles with DOIs, a number of 1447 items were available from Altmetric explorer and received a total of 8832 social citations in 14 social Medias. Mendeley (92358 reads) and Twitter (6480 tweets) were the most used social media, respectively, followed by news outlet, blogs, and policy documents. The most active users of Twitter, Facebook, news media and policy documents are from the US. The altmetrics attention score of the most influential papers is 651 and for an Iranian paper was 82, published in 2016 and 2015 respectively. Spearman test showed that there was a significant though weak relationship between citation and altmetric score. The most productive, most socially and academic cited subject categories was multidisciplinary sciences. Visualizing climate variability articles revealed that sea surface temperature, global warming, southern oscillation, and El Niño were the most frequently used key terms in the articles.

The value of this research lies in providing a picture of four decades of research in the field and in the clarification of the extent to which social network users pay attention to climate variability issues and how much is the power of altmetrics in showing the impact of science on society and research evaluation.