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The issue of performance evaluation has long been considered as one of the important success factors in various organizations. Therefore, in the current research, the relationship between organizational factors and organizational performance in public libraries of Gilan province has been investigated. The current research is of an applied type with a quantitative approach and in terms of how to collect data, a survey was conducted using a Likert scale questionnaire. The statistical population was the personnel working in the public libraries of Gilan (195 people), according to Cochran's formula, a questionnaire was distributed among 130 people by available sampling method. The instrument used is Machi's standard questionnaire (2019). SPSS and other statistical software were used for data analysis. The findings showed that all the factors of strategy, structure, cultre and organizational policy have a significant effect on organizational performance in public libraries of Gilan province, and these factors have the ability to predict the variable of organizational performance to a large extent, and culture was the strongest predictive variable.In order to improve the performance of public libraries in Gilan province, it is necessary for managers and professors to have a long-term perspective and pay due attention to various organizational issues in order to improve the performance of the organizaton. Also coordinate organizational operational plans and organize the actions of different units in one direction.

Knowledge organization is one of the oldest and most fundamental topics in knowledge and information science. Future study is a general human capacity that enables a person to think about the future and examine, model and create future possibilities and show them in front of themselves. Success in identifying driving forces, macrotrends and shapers of the future and investigating their impact on key factors affecting each future and analyzing the feasibility of certain futures with the aim of creating desirable futures are among the goals of future research. The future of information science has faced new developments. Undoubtedly, the future will be different from what has been customary before. The profession of information science must make fundamental and specific changes, otherwise it will be abandoned. Futuristic science is a science that opens the view of information science to possible future events, challenges and opportunities and makes it possible to reach the desired future from the right path. It seems that there is no clear, accurate and correct view of the developments, effective forces, challenges, solutions and matters related to the knowledge  organization. Not having the right knowledge and making decisions based on trial and error and different tastes, causes waste of time and money, getting lost, reducing efficiency, rework, lack of coherence, getting lost, etc., and causes a lot of losses to this important field. The purpose of this research is to future study of knowledge organization using the opinions of Iranian experts in this field about the future and related issues.

The type of research is applied with a qualitative approach that has been collected by qualitative content analysis, grounded theory and interview tools to obtain the opinions of knowledge organization experts. The collected data were analyzed based on thematic analysis. After asking questions, the interviews were conducted in a semi-structured manner and implemented. The transcripts of the interviews were then read and reviewed several times so that the researcher had sufficient control over the data. In the third stage, the data were broken down into semantic units in the form of sentences and paragraphs related to the main meaning. Semantic units were reviewed several times and then the appropriate concepts of each semantic unit were written. The research population is 20 experts in information science and science with a specialized field of knowledge organization who were interviewed by phone.

The results led to the identification of several factors about the driving forces, trends, challenges and strategies affecting knowledge organization. According to experts, the influential driving forces in the future of knowledge organization are: knowledge producers, knowledge stakeholders, knowledge users, knowledge theorists, education, cooperation of information science and computer science experts, etc. Some interviewees see the collection of research on knowledge organization as a growing yet diverse trend. Cataloging and classification, taxonomy, traditional topics including reduction items and web-based tools, tools and standards for organizing knowledge, semantic web and ontology are expressed as incremental items. In the field of knowledge organizing challenges, we can also mention factors such as: research problems, manpower, education, data problems, software problems, non-compliance with standards. The interviewees also provided a variety of solutions in the fields of education, research, manpower, financial resources and technology-related issues. Finally, the paradigm model of the research was drawn and the related factors in each category were identified.

Organizing knowledge is a multifaceted, growing and prolific subject in knowledge and information science that is struggling with its strengths and weaknesses. Each part of the paradigm model interacts with each other and has a positive or negative effect on each other. Paying attention to the positive points and eliminating the weak points can help in promoting the knowledge organization and knowledge and information science. Education is one of the most important driving forces of knowledge organization and is like a double-edged sword that can act as an effective force if paid attention to. Otherwise it is considered a big challenge. Experts in knowledge organization have a good and clear knowledge of the issues in this area and have expressed various influential cases. Therefore, it is necessary to use collective wisdom and financial and spiritual support to pay more attention to knowledge organizing and try to promote strengths and eliminate weaknesses.

Knowledge organization is one of the old and basic topics of knowledge and information science. The aim of this study is to conduct a scientific mapping of knowledge organization based on author co-citation analysis.

The type of research was applied by the citation analysis method. The research records are compiled based on all articles in the two journals of Knowledge Organization and Cataloging and Classification Quarterly and keywords related to the field of knowledge organization indexed in Web of Science database from 1900 to 2019. Finally, 17,950 records were analyzed in full with plain text format. The total number of citations was 360143. In this study, cuts were made for authors who received 130 citations and more, numbering 178; therefore, a 178 by 178 matrix was used to draw the co-citation network and the authors’ co-citation network was drawn. Then the created symmetric matrix was transformed into a correlation matrix. To draw a matrix BibExcel software, to analyze co-citation networks UCINET software, to draw co-citation grid VOSviewer software, to draw a dendrogram diagram SPSS software and to draw a strategic chart Excel software were used.

The findings show that Horland was highly productive and Salton has highly cited articles in the field of knowledge organization. Robertson and Salton also have the most co-citations in this area. The intellectual structure of the field of knowledge organization consists of 11 main clusters. The largest cluster (cluster 4) consists of 36 researchers dedicated to information retrieval. After that, cluster 1 with 35 authors, which is in the subject of seeking behavior-information retrieval. Categories 10 and 11 also have 18 researchers each, covering topics such as cataloging and classification, and knowledge organization. Cluster 9, with seven authors is the smallest cluster that deals with the subject of scientometrics. Combined clusters, scientometrics, ontology, and cataloging and classification have the highest density. Information retrieval and knowledge organization clusters also have the highest centrality.

The creation of a co-citation network among the authors of the knowledge organization shows the intellectual connection between the authors. Not all prolific writers in this field are necessarily well-known authors. Issues of information retrieval, information behavior, and knowledge organization play an important role in knowledge organization research. Highly productive and high cited authors also cite a more effective presence on the scientific map. The co-citation analysis of the authors can show the most influential authors and the relationships between them. These analyzes can be used in macro-policies and policy-making.

Knowledge Organizing is one of the oldest and most basic topics in Library and information science Whose main domain is immutable over time; However, the environment in which the organization operates has changed dramatically and will continue to change. Published research often describes only certain aspects that show only a partial picture of the perspective of its knowledge organization research. In fact, it is difficult for researchers to get an overview of this field by reviewing such articles. Scientometric methods are expected to help meet this need. This study aims to investigate the centrality indicators in the co-authorship network of articles in the field of knowledge organization.

This research is an applied type that has done with the approach of scientometrics and analysis of social networks. The research records are compiled based on all articles in the two journals of Knowledge Organization and Cataloging & Classification Quarterly as well as 100 keywords related to the field of knowledge organization indexed in Web of Science from 1900 to 2019. Finally, the retrieved records were limited to research papers, conference papers, and review papers and limited to the subject of Library and information filed. Out of 23,525 authors who were involved in the publication of 17,950 articles, 311 with at least 8 articles were analyzed using UCINET software. After that, a square matrix of dimensions 311 by 311 was formed, and finally the co-authorship network was drawn based on the centrality indicators. Bib Excel software was used to draw the matrix and NetDraw software was used to draw the co-authorship network.

Results indicated taht the average number of authors per article is 1.31. 23,525 authors have contributed articles in this field, of which Professor Birger Yorland of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, is the most active researcher in Knowledge organization with 43 articles. Professor Wolfang J. Stoke of the University of Düsseldorf, Germany, came in second with 36 papers. Professor Borgman of UCLA is third with 31 articles. Analysis of data related to co-authorship analysis indicates that out of 17,950 articles under review, 8964 (49.93%) have been written with the mono-writing approach as the most common approach in knowledge organization and other articles (50.07%) in the format Co-authors have been offered, of which two authors (24.68%) have a larger share. In examining the characteristics of centrality indicators, Zheng, Feroo, Giles, and Goh, gained the top scores in the Degree Centrality, Closeness Centrality, Betweenness Centrality, and Eigen vector, respectively.

According to the results of the present study, it seems that prominent researchers in the field of knowledge organization, despite being productive, have not been able to play a significant role in the formation of the co-authorship network in this field.

This paper aims to examine the effects of alternative publishing models such as open access practices which make scholarly output assessment easier from a Scientometrics point of view, precisely called Altmetrics.

Using bibliometrics and scientometrics, the characteristics of Altmetrics articles were studied regarding subject, the channel of publication, year of publishing, country, and readership in various social media were investigated. The comparison of the Altmetrics score and their citation status were also examined in the current study.

The study showed that more than half of the articles (53 articles) were in medical and health sciences. Other articles included were from fields of biology (20), Geology and Environmental Sciences (9), Social sciences (8), Research and development and Physics (2), and one in Information and Computer Science. Most articles (16) were published in Nature. Lancet published 12, the British Medical Journal 6, the Science and JAMA Magazine 5 articles respectively. The publication rates of articles were not the same in all months. The United States (46%), the United Kingdom (53%), and Canada (1%) published most of the top articles, respectively. Conclustion: Researchers in a variety of fields use a variety of tools to provide their research outcomes and deliver their scientific message in plain language to the public in various ways.

The present study aimed to investigate the effect of personality traits (self-efficacy and self-esteem) and situational characteristics (cognitive assessment: threat to challenge) on the knowledge sharing at librarians in public libraries of Khorasan Razavi. The present research is a descriptive study carried out using a questionnaire. Cronbach's alpha was used for four questionnaires and the reliability of the research tool was confirmed. The statistical population of this study was 310 librarians of public libraries covered by libraries. According to Cochran formula, a questionnaire was distributed among 172 librarians and finally 141 questionnaires were answered. The findings of the research show that librarians with higher self-efficacy and high self-esteem have a more positive attitude toward knowledge management and collaboration in the organization. Also, librarians who challenge challenges in situations have a more positive attitude toward knowledge management and collaboration in the organization. On the other hand, librarians who are threatened in situations with evaluations have a less positive attitude toward knowledge management and collaboration in the organization. The results of the research confirmed the effect of two categories of personality traits including self-esteem and self-efficacy as well as situational features including cognitive threat assessment and challenge situations in dealing with the attitude of librarians towards knowledge management and show that these factors can predict librarian's attitude Knowledge management and collaborative knowledge sharing. This research examines the relationship between personality traits and knowledge management.

Smart data is the raw material for many activities such as automation, intelligent systems, artificial intelligence and for the fourth industrial revolution. The purpose of this study is to systematically analyze all smart data related studies published from 1980 to the end of September 2017. Also, the study of probabilistic patterns is another purpose of this research. Regarding the search model of Winer, Amike and Lee in 2008, the articles of this study were extracted using a systematic search in the Web of Science database and 220 articles were selected as the final population. They were considered to identify authors, objective, population, countries and universities, funders, years, publication terms, citation status, keywords, subject, format, language, and authorship. The main findings show that Sen Soumya has the highest number of articles (63.3%) in this field, while the United States with 33.63 percent, Princeton University with 18.3 percent, and the National Science Foundation of China  with 2.72 percent have the largest share in countries, universities, and institutions. The objectives of 72.77% of articles were smart data applications and 84.54 percent of the articles have been made on nonhuman societies. Most research in this area (20.9%) was conducted in 2016. The IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops has published most articles in this field (18.3%). Average citations received is 4.4. The keyword "system" (18.3%) is the most common. 39.44 percent of the published articles relate to computer science. 52/64 percent of the articles were published in the form of a conference. 18.88 percent of articles are written in English. 90.5 percent of the articles are written by single authors and 94 percent of them are written by several writers. The results of the current study indicate the variety and extent of the components studied.

The purpose of this study is to Analyzing international research on knowledge management in libraries from 1995 to the end of May 2018. The articles were systematically searched(content analysis) in the Scopus database and 54 articles were selected as the final society of this research. Then the goal, communities, methods and tools, findings and suggestions for further research papers were reviewed. The aim of most articles is to review the view of librarians about knowledge management (25.92%). Most of the research on knowledge management has been done on librarians (74.17%). Out of the total number of researches, 37 (68/51%) and 9 (16/66%) were used quantitatively and qualitatively. Among the tools used, the closed response questionnaire is ranked 28th (51.85%). The positive relationship between knowledge management and creativity and innovation and the impact of culture and organizational dimensions on knowledge management were the most frequent in the findings section of the articles. Most suggestions are related to the need for syllabuses for librarians and library students in knowledge management, and to conduct international studies to explore the differences in knowledge management in different environments. The results indicate that the components of the study are up to date, variety and breadth. There is less variation in the research community, research methods, and tools. Most researches are based on the librarians' community and by quantitative method and questionnaire. It is suggested that articles be required to submit one or more proposals for further research.

This article tries to investigate the level of information literacy instruction on the websites of Iranian academic libraries, and to examine the influence of the penetration of these tools. Using a survey methodology, 42 academic library websites (Ministry of Science, Research and Technology) were selected and analyzed in this study. Results indicated that Ferdowsi University of Mashhad ranked first (80%), University of Tehran, Tarbiat Modares University, and University of Mazandaran jointly ranked second (70%) and the University of Elmo sanat (Science and Technology), Imam Khomeini International University, University of Isfahan, and Kerman Shahid Bahonar University jointly ranked third (60%). Further analysis revealed that option of "about us" is used frequently (76.19%), and options of "ask a librarian", "FAQ", and "list of journals (ISI, ISC, …)" are used infrequently (11.90 %). The presentation of information literacy instructions on the websites of those Iranian academic libraries which offer LIS programs, is 50%. Based on the findings of this study, it seems that the use of information literacy instructions on academic library websites is at a low level (31.66%). At the end of this paper, the researchers have provided selected components of information literacy instruction to be offered on the websites of academic libraries.

The analysis of lectures and conferences held by Iranian Library and Information Science Association (ILISA) can uncover the distribution of subject categories and reveal the historical development and evolution of Library and Information Science in Iran. Using a quantitative and qualitative content analysis، this survey attempts to review and analyze the workshops، lectures، and conferences held by ILISA in its third round، from 1386-1388. Findings showed that out of 162 workshops، lectures، and conferences، 95. 68% are associated with library and information issues and 4. 32% are related to other disciplines. It was also reveald that the growth of workshops، lectures and seminars is good and the subject coverage of them are extended. Content analysis indicated that the majority of workshops، lectures، and conferences held by ILISA focused on cataloging and classification، Internet، publishers and publishing، and bibliometrics. Finally، the issues not addressed in ILISA workshops، lectures، and seminars were also identified.