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Loyalty and satisfaction of employees are key factors for the success and survival of any organization, especially service-oriented organizations like public libraries. On one hand, maintaining the position and dignity of the public library requires consideration of the performance and loyalty of its librarians. On the other hand, it is essential to focus on implementing a knowledge management system and promoting knowledge sharing in service-oriented organizations to enhance loyalty and organizational performance. Therefore, this research was conducted to determine the impact of knowledge management and knowledge sharing systems on the performance and loyalty of librarians in public libraries in Fars province.
The present study was conducted as applied research. Data collection involved a descriptive survey and correlation analysis. The statistical population comprised 331 librarians from public libraries in Fars province, with a sample size of 175 selected using the stratified random method based on the Krejci & Morgan table. The study utilized four questionnaires on knowledge management (Newman and Konrad, 2000), knowledge sharing (Panahi, Watson, and Partridge, 2012), librarian performance (Zarei and Same Siahkolroudi, 2017), and librarian loyalty (Yeh, Yeong, and Cheng, 2010; June, Cai, and Shin, 2006). The questionnaires demonstrated Cronbach's alpha coefficients above 0.7. Data analysis was performed using SPSS 25 for descriptive statistics and Smart PLS software for Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to determine the relationships between variables. The measurement model section utilized Cronbach's alpha, Construct Reliability (CR), and Convergent Validity (CV) indexes. Additionally, the model fit was assessed using Normed Fit Index (NFI), Standardized Root Mean Square Residuals (SRMR), d-G, d-ULS, and Chi-Square.
The findings showed that the status of variables related to knowledge management, knowledge sharing, performance of librarians, and loyalty of librarians in the public libraries of Fars province is in good condition and above average. Among the research variables, the performance of librarians, with an average of 4.04, was higher than other variables. The results of the correlation test indicated a significant and positive relationship between knowledge management and knowledge sharing (p<0.01, r = 0.373) with librarians' performance (p<0.01, r = 0.342) and loyalty (p<0.01,r = 0.484). Additionally, there was a significant and positive relationship between knowledge sharing and the performance of librarians (p<0.01, r = 0.513) and loyalty of librarians (p<0.01, r = 0.596). The indicators of the measurement model for the construct reliability index and Cronbach's alpha were above 0.7, indicating the reliability of the construct. The average variance extracted index for the convergent validity of the model was also higher than 0.5 for all variables, indicating appropriate convergent validity. The results of the SEM fit showed that the coefficient of determination for librarians' performance and loyalty were calculated as 0.327 and 0.561, respectively, indicating the prediction of 32% and 56% of the variance in performance and loyalty of librarians. Furthermore, the Goodness of Fit (GOF) index was calculated as 0.56, indicating a relatively strong fit of the proposed model.
One of the crucial factors influencing the professional conduct of librarians is their performance level and loyalty to libraries and information centers. Understanding the loyalty status of librarians can assist managers in planning to achieve desired objectives. By elucidating the correlation between knowledge management, knowledge sharing, organizational loyalty, and librarian performance, the research findings can capture the attention of library managers and officials to bolster the knowledge management and sharing systems in libraries. This will create conducive conditions for enhancing the performance and loyalty of librarians. By improving access to knowledge, honing expertise, and promoting continuous learning, librarians can deliver optimal service to users and establish a more efficient relationship with the organization.

In recent years, the reliance of organizations on the knowledge capital that originates from their employees has increased. This internal knowledge is the main factor of success and survival in today's business environment. Knowledge-oriented organizations consider knowledge sharing as an important learning strategy to achieve innovative performance. With the increasing dependence of the economy on knowledge, today knowledge is considered as the most important factor in gaining competitive advantage and achieving greater performance and profitability. All organizations -both large and small ones- consider knowledge as an essential resource in gaining a competitive advantage. Of course, Knowledge will be effective when it is shared among the employees of the organization and finally used in practice. Therefore, knowledge sharing not only makes employees share their previous knowledge with others, it also helps them to gain valuable new knowledge; It helps to create, improve and implement innovative ideas. This research aims to develop the argument that knowledge sharing strengthens the effect of the role of organizational climate on innovative work behavior; It examines the effect of organizational climate on the innovative behavior of employees and the mediating role of knowledge sharing in knowledge-based companies in Fars province, in order to properly understand the type of relationship and how organizational climate and knowledge sharing influence the innovative performance of employees in knowledge-based companies. Managers find the possibility to plan and manage more appropriate measures for the development of innovation in the company, in line with the greater productivity of the organization.

The current research is an applied research. which investigated the effect of organizational climate on knowledge sharing and innovative work behavior of employees of knowledge-based companies in Fars province in the year 2021 with an experimental method. According to Cochran's formula, the statistical sample size is 190 people. Due to the possibility of non-cooperation of some statistical samples in completing the questionnaire, the questionnaire was sent to 250 people from the statistical population. 235 questionnaires were completed by employees of knowledge-based companies. In order to cover the objectives of the research, a combined questionnaire was used, including the organizational climate questionnaire of Jane, Farmer, Pichatka, Frederick and Lukas (2015), the knowledge sharing questionnaire of Jane et al. (2015) and the innovative behavior questionnaire of Janssen (2004). In order to analyze the data and respond to the research hypotheses, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling were used by SmartPLS software. In order to check the validity of the questionnaire, formal and content validity methods were used. In this way, the questionnaire was given to 5 experts in the field of entrepreneurship, and they were asked for their opinions on the questions and the evaluation of the hypotheses, and they unanimously approved the questionnaire. Also, a confirmatory factor analysis was carried out using SmartPLS software, and its validity checked out. In order to calculate the reliability of the questionnaire, Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated. The partial least squares method was used to validate the model. The results of running the model in the standard estimation mode show the direction and intensity of the relationship between the variables. In order to check the significance of the relationships between the variables of the model, the bootstrap method was used. In this research, convergent validity, composite reliability, Cronbach's alpha and divergent validity were used to fit the external model.

In the case of all constructs, the average variance extracted is greater than 0.5, so there is a convergent validity. Cronbach's alpha of all variables is greater than 0.7, so the reliability is confirmed. The combined reliability value is also greater than the extracted average variance and, in all cases, it is greater than the threshold of 0.7, so the third condition is also met. The coefficient of influence of organizational climate on innovative behavior was obtained as 0.409. Also, the value of t statistic is 4.160. Therefore, it can be claimed with 95% certainty: organizational climate has a positive and significant effect on innovative behavior. The coefficient of influence of organizational atmosphere on knowledge sharing was obtained as 0.854. Also, the value of t-test is 9.522. Therefore, it can be claimed with 95% confidence that organizational climate has a positive and significant effect on knowledge sharing. The effect coefficient of knowledge sharing on innovative behavior is 0.396. Also, the value of t-test was 2.575. Therefore, it can be claimed with 95% confidence: knowledge sharing has a positive and significant effect on innovative behavior.

Based on the results obtained in this research, the organizational climate has a positive and significant effect on the knowledge sharing of employees in knowledge-based companies. Examining the relationship between knowledge sharing and innovative work behavior confirms the positive and significant effect of knowledge sharing on innovative behavior among employees of knowledge-based companies. The innovative behavior of employees is a type of motivating behavior; on the other hand, sharing knowledge is a behavior beyond the actual role of employees in the organization. Therefore, considering this fact, it can be expected that when the level of knowledge and information exchange in the organization is higher, the motivation of employees for innovative activities will increase. Therefore, the increase of information resources resulting from knowledge sharing can be considered as one of the factors of innovative work behavior in the organization. The general results of this research show the direct and indirect effect of the organizational climate (through knowledge sharing) on the innovative work behavior of employees of knowledge-based companies in Fars province. Knowledge sharing increases the effect of organizational climate on innovative work behavior. Based on this, it can be concluded that knowledge sharing behavior has a decisive role in the emergence of innovative work behavior.

Personal knowledge management plays an important role in the knowledge management process for the individual and the organization. Personal knowledge management discusses self-efficacy and making people more valuable to the organization and thus creating more value for each employee. Accordingly, the present study investigates the relationship between the personal knowledge management of public library librarians and the productivity of human resources in these libraries. The type of research is descriptive-analytical based on the basic purpose and method of data collection. The statistical population of this study includes all employees of public libraries in Khuzestan province in 2020 (378 people) who were selected as a statistical sample of the research by simple random sampling method and with the help of Cochran's table. To collect data, Mahmoudi and Bagheri questionnaire (2013) in the field of personal knowledge management and Hershey and Goldsmith questionnaire (1980) in the field of human resource productivity have been used. In this study, one-sample t-test to determine the significance of differences between variables, Pearson correlation test to examine the presence or absence of relationship between two variables and two-sample independent t-test and variance test in SPSS software 24 has been used. The results of the research findings show that public library staff with a score of 3.18 are at the desired level in personal knowledge management. Among personal knowledge management skills, they have a higher average in ability skills and this shows that they have the necessary confidence to learn other aspects of knowledge management.

What justifies the investigation of the effect of information literacy and information technologies on the sharing of knowledge by different sections of society is the widespread use of public and scientific media among different sections of society, different understanding of information literacy and the importance of sharing knowledge in different strata of society. Information literacy and information and communication technologies are the determining factors in today’s constantly changing conditions. This study has investigated the role of information literacy and information technologies in knowledge sharing among public library staff.

The current research is an applied research that collects information in a descriptive manner. The statistical population of the research includes 149 librarians of the public libraries of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari provinces in the year 1400 SH. 108 people were randomly selected as the research sample using Cochran’s formula. Hosseini and Ghasemi (2019) questionnaire was used to collect data. The independent variable in this research is information literacy, which includes the components of identifying information needs, finding and evaluating the quality of information, storing and retrieving information, effective and ethical use of information, and creating and communicating knowledge. The dependent variable of the research is knowledge sharing and the mediating variable is information technology. The validity of the questionnaire was calculated using Cronbach’s alpha and composite reliability. The value of Cronbach’s alpha and composite reliability was greater than 0/7. In this research, partial least squares (PLS) method was used to investigate the relationship between variables. Using this method, the relationship between the variables and also the strength of the relationship between them were obtained.

The examination of the research hypotheses revealed that the standard factorial value of the effect of identifying the need for information, finding and assessing the quality of information, storing and retrieving information, effective and ethical use of information, and creating and communicating knowledge on knowledge sharing, was respectively 0/378, 0/517, 0/566, 0/566, and 0/493. Therefore, in all cases, the mentioned indicators have a positive and significant effect on the knowledge sharing of public library employees. Moreover, the standard factor loading value of the effect of identifying the need for information, finding and evaluating the quality of information, storing and retrieving information, effective and ethical use of information, and creating and communicating knowledge through information technology on knowledge sharing was calculated to be respectively 0/679, 0/93, and 0/639, 0/842, and 0/832. According to the calculated factor load, all the mentioned indicators have a positive and significant effect on knowledge sharing through information technology. Accordingly, the mediating role of information technology in influencing information literacy on knowledge sharing was confirmed. In general, according to the value of the standard factor of information literacy on knowledge sharing value of 0/870 and the value of t statistic (t = 46/144>1/96), one can conclude that the index of information literacy through information technologies has a positive and significant effect on the process of knowledge sharing among public library staff.

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This research has investigated for the first time the effect of information literacy and information technology on knowledge sharing in the public libraries of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari provinces. In this regard, the present research is considered innovative. Research findings indicate that information literacy affects knowledge sharing either directly or through communication information technologies. Thus, the impact of all dimensions of information literacy on knowledge sharing has significantly increased under the influence of information technologies.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the presence and activity of Iranian authors and researchers in the field of nursing in the ResearchGate and Mendeley databases, based on Altmetrics metrics obtained from Scopus Scientific Database.

The present study is an applied research and descriptive-survey that has been done by the scientometric method with the Altmetrics approach. The statistical population of the study includes Iranian authors and researchers in the field of nursing who had indexed documents in the Scopus database in the period of 2000-2019. 158 of these authors have been identified and reviewed by Scopus. In order to analyze the data, in addition to descriptive statistics, in the inferential statistics section with the help of Excel and SPSS software, the correlation test between Altmetrics indices in ResearchGate and Mendel with the database Scopus has been used scientifically.

The results show that except for the relationship between the follow-up index in ResearchGate with the Etch Index index and the citation received in Scopus, in other cases there is a significant relationship between the studied indicators. Also, there is a significant relationship between most of the indexes of the Researchgate and Mendelian databases, and only the RG score index in the Researchgate database has no significant relationship with the indexes of publications, citations, and the Achindex score in Mendelian. The relationship between most of the Mendelian and Scopus indices is also significant, and only the relationship of the followers in Mendelian with the Achindex index in the Scopus database lacks a significant relationship.

Considering the significant relationship between Altmetrics indexes of social networks and indexes of Scopus database, the discussion of the presence and activity of writers and researchers in scientific social networks should be pursued with more seriousness and importance.

The tacit knowledge transfer is an interactive process based on trust between the parties. Individual motivation seems to be effective in increasing staff's willingness to transfer tacit knowledge. Accordingly, the current research studied the effect of organizational trust and the mediating role of individual motivation on the willingness to transfer tacit knowledge among public library staff.

The current research is applied based on the purpose and descriptive in terms of the data collection method. The statistical population includes all the employees of the public libraries in Fars province in 2021 (350 people), which by Cochran's formula, 142 people were selected as the statistical sample. To collect data, Fuller (2018)'s Organizational Trust Questionnaire and Individual Motivation Questionnaire were used. In order to investigate the effect of organizational trust on individual motivation and tacit knowledge transfer, confirmatory factor analysis and partial least squares technique have been used. The software used for data analysis are SPSS and PLS software.

The results show that the effect of organizational trust on the desire to transfer tacit knowledge is 0.390. The effect of organizational trust on personal motivation of employees is 0.798 and the effect of individual motivation of employees on the desire to transfer tacit knowledge is 0.437. Therefore, organizational trust and individual motivation have a direct positive and significant effect on the desire to transfer tacit knowledge of employees. But the indirect effect of organizational trust on the tendency to transfer tacit knowledge due to individual motivation is 0.349, which has decreased compared to the direct state.These results show that employees' individual motivation has a moderate effect of organizational trust on the desire to transfer tacit knowledge.

Although organizational trust and individual motivation each have a direct positive and significant effect on the desire to transfer tacit knowledge of public library staff, the mediating role of individual motivation has not increased the effect of organizational trust on the desire to transfer tacit knowledge. Therefore, individual motivation cannot be considered as an effective mediating variable in the process of effective tacit knowledge transfer.

The current study aims to calculate the relationship between Altmetric scores obtained from the observation and dissemination of digital library resources in the Dimensions database and the number of citations received in the Scopus database. Also, in another part of the research, the predictive power of the number of Scopus citations by Altmetric scores is examined. The present research is applied in terms of purpose and survey-descriptive in terms of type, which is done by the scientometric method and with an Altmetric approach. The statistical population of the study includes all articles in the field of digital libraries (24183 records) that are indexed in the Scopus citation database during 1960-2020. Dimensions database has been used to evaluate the Altmetric scores obtained from these articles on social networks. Due to the limited access to the required data in the Scopus database, 2000 highly cited articles in the field of digital libraries in this Scopus database were studied through the Dimensions database. The data collection tools are Scopus Citation Database and Dimensions Database. The required data is collected through the Scopus database. In this study, the studied indicators from the Dimensions database appear as the independent variable of the research. The dependent variables in this study are the number of citations to articles in the Scopus database. Correlation tests and multiple regression between the studied indices are used to examine the relationships between variables and perform statistical tests. The software used is Excel and SPSS version 23. The present study results show that the social networks Patent, Facebook, Wikipedia, and Twitter have the highest correlation with the number of citations in the Dimensions database. The social networks Blog, Google User, and Q&A do not significantly relate to the number of citations received in Dimensions. Patent social networks, Wikipedia, and Twitter have the highest correlation with the number of Scopus citations. In this case, the social networks of Blog, Google User, Pulse Source and Q&A do not significantly correlate with the number of citations received. Among the citation databases studied, Mendeley has the highest correlation between the numbers of citations. Other results indicate that the publication and viewing of documents on social networks cannot predict the number of citations in the Dimensions and Scopus databases.

Considering the effect of the presence of scientific products in scientific-citation databases and social networks on the scientometric indicators of databases, this study investigates the effect of Dimensional and Mendelian database meta-metrics on the number of citations received in The Scopus base is covered.

 The present study is of a fundamental type that has been done in a descriptive manner with a metamorphic approach. The statistical population of this research includes 284 documents produced by Iranian authors in the field of semantics, which are indexed in the Scopus database in the period of 2021-1960. In order to investigate the effect of metamorphic indices and scores obtained from the presence of semantic web products in Dimensions and Mendelian databases on the index of number of citations in Scopus database, correlation tests and multiple linear regression using Excel and SPSS software.

Iranian writers in the field of semantics use Mendel in 95.5% of cases. Nevertheless in only 24 cases (8.5%) do they use social networks to share content? Apart from the ratio of relative citations, other dimensional indicators have an acceptable correlation with the number of Scopus citations. The relationship between the number of Dimensions citations and the number of Scopus citations is stronger than the relationship between other indicators. There is also a high correlation between the number of readers and the number of Mendelian citations with Scopus citations. Examination of regression model coefficients showed that the number of citations received by Daischmans to Miran is 10% and the number of Mendelian citations is 83% of the predictive power of Scopus citations. Other studied indicators are incapable of predicting the number of Scopus citations.

Iranian writers in the field of semantic web should use social networks such as Twitter to share their content as much as possible. Also, in order to receive more citations, publish their content in journals with international indexes.

This study aimed to identify the effect of Altmetrics indicators of Mendeley resource management database on scientometric indicators in Scopus and Web of Science citation databases. The present study is an applied and descriptive research that has been done by scientometric method with Altmetrics approach. The statistical sample for the study includes Iranian researchers in the field of nursing who had an indexed document in the Scopus citation database, in the period 2000-2019 and on the date of the research (20/03/2020), and was also a member of the Mendeley resource management database. There were 158 high-profile authors introduced by Scopus. Findings illustrated that there is no significant relationship between the h-index in Scopus and the followers' index in Mendeley. However, there is a significant relationship between the other indicators studied in these two databases. There is also a significant relationship between co-authorship index, h-index, citations, readers, publications, and viewers in Mendeley scientific social network with indexes of citation number and h-index in the Web of Science citation database. But there is no significant relationship between the follower’s index and these indicators. Examining the relationship between the numbers of citations received in Mendeley, Scopus, and Web of Science shows that there is a significant relationship between the numbers of citations received in these databases. Respectively, the strongest correlation, in this case, is between the citation index received in the Mendeley and Web of Science database, Mendeley and Scopus, and finally Scopus and Web of science. There is also a significant relationship between the etch index in the Mendeley, Scopus, and Web of Science databases. The correlation between the Mendeley h-index and Web of Science is stronger than the correlation between the Mendeley h-index and Scopus.

Public libraries, like other organizations involved in the spread of coronary anxiety disorder, have taken different approaches to their activities. One of the most important challenges is job adjustment and change management during the corona outbreak. This study investigated the effect of corona anxiety on change management and the mediating role of work volition in public libraries.

The type of research is descriptive based on the applied purpose and in terms of data collection method. The statistical population of this study includes all employees of public libraries in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province in 1400 (160 people). Using simple random sampling method, 115 people were selected as the statistical sample of the study. A combined questionnaire including corona anxiety assessment (Alipour, Ghadami, Alipour, Abdollahzadeh, 2020), job adjustment (Davis and LaFquist, 2011) and change management (Armenakis et al., 2007) were used to collect data. In this study, with the help of confirmatory factor analysis and using the partial least squares technique, the effect of corona anxiety on work volition and change management among public library staff has been investigated. The software used to analyze the data are SPS and SmartPLS.

The findings of this study show that coronary anxiety (mental and physical anxiety) can have a negative effect on employee adjustment and change management. But one of the important points that was obtained in testing research hypotheses is the effect of work volition on change management. Considering that in the last two years, the organizational space has faced a major challenge called the corona outbreak; The results show that in such situations, improving the work volition of employees can be a good option to reduce the negative effects of corona anxiety.

The effect of anxiety caused by coronavirus outbreak on job adjustment and change management in public libraries of Fars province has been studied for the first time and is innovative in this regard.

The aim of this study was to identify the effect of Altmetrics indexes of ResearchGate social network on scientometric indicators of Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar citation databases.

The present study is an applied research and descriptive-survey research that has been done by the scientometric method with the Altmetrics approach. The statistical population of the study includes Iranian researchers and writers in the field of nursing who in the period 2000-2019 and on the date of research (20/03/2020), had an indexed document in the Scopus citation database and also a member of the scientific social network ResearchGate. They were. The statistical sample of the study includes 158 high-profile authors introduced by Scopus. In addition to descriptive statistics, in the inferential statistics section, the correlation test between the studied indices has been used with the help of SPSS and Excel software.

The research findings show that there is a significant relationship between most of the ResearchGate indices and the indices studied in Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. But there is no significant relationship between the index of followers with H-index indexes and citations received in Scopus and Web of Science databases. Examining the relationship between the number of citations received in Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science databases shows that there is a significant relationship between the number of citations received in Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar databases.

Due to the role of virtual social networks in the process of knowledge sharing and to make contact between groups and human communities, this study examines the impact of use of virtual social networks and dimensions of social capital theory on knowledge sharing and student interaction.

This research is of applied type that was conducted by using descriptive method. In this research, from social capital theory has been used as a theoretical foundation to examine the relationships between the use of virtual social networks in universities, knowledge sharing and students’ interaction. The statistical sample of the research is 303 Postgraduate students of Payame Noor University of Fars province in 1400. The data collection tool is Guranting et al. (2019) questionnaire. Independent research variables include virtual social networks and social capital theory (dimensions including: structural, relational and perceptual), the intermediate variable is knowledge sharing and the dependent variable is student interaction research. content validity (Confirmatory factor analysis) and reliability (computing the coefficient of Cronbach’sa for all items) were adopted. In order to investigate of research hypotheses, the structural equation model has been used. The software used is SPSS Version 23.

Based on the research findings, the significant values of the relationship between virtual social networks, knowledge sharing and students’ interaction respectively are t = 8.00 and t = 9.35. Therefore, in both cases, there is a positive and significant relationship. Significant values obtained from the effect of structural, relational and perceptual dimensions of social capital theory on knowledge sharing were obtained 3.67, 2.06 and 3.45, respectively, which all confirm the positive and significant effect of social capital theory dimensions on knowledge sharing. The significant value of the relationship of knowledge sharing and students’ interaction (t = 9.45) confirms the existence of a significant relationship between knowledge and student interaction.

Presence in virtual social networks promotes students' desire to share knowledge. The desire to knowledge sharing increases students' interaction in individual and group activities. On the other hand, according to interaction theory, Whatever students interact with education will be more, their learning outcomes will be more.

This research identified dimensions and Indicators of personal knowledge management and presented an Interpretative Structural Model of Indicators affecting personal knowledge management in the Regional Water Company of Fars.

This study is practical in terms of type and purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of data collection method, which has been done with a quantitative approach. Data collection tools are checklists and factor matrices. The statistical population of this study includes all employees of Regional Water Company of Fars in 1400 (350 people). That by Using of purposive sampling method, 25 knowledge management experts were selected as the statistical sample of the research.

According to Penetration power model and the degree of dependence identified among the Indicators studied in this study, Indicators of "scientific activities to achieve solutions to specific issues or problems in the Scientific field ", "Scientific activities for inventing new laboratory methods", "Patent or scientific discovery based on scientific activities", "Storage and classification of important and required files and folders", "Book Publishing (Compilation)", and "Publication of a scientific research article" are the most effective indicators of personal knowledge management among the employees of Regional Water Company of Fars.

 Identifying the Penetration power model and the degree of dependence of indicators of tacit knowledge management causes organizations to identify their strengths and weaknesses to improve the flow of knowledge in inside and outside of their organization. This research is conducted for the first time in Regional Water Company of Fars.

The purpose of this study is to identify and prioritize the factors influencing knowledge commercialization in university, to enable the success of knowledge commercialization.

The present study, through an applied approach and confirmatory factor analysis, collected the opinions of 20 knowledge-building experts of Isfahan University. Delphi techniques were used to identify the factors influencing knowledge commercialization and fuzzy hierarchical analysis was used to rank the identified factors.

The results show that in terms of structural factors for knowledge commercialization in Isfahan University, the index of "the existence of commercialization centers in universities or establishment of technology transfer and commercialization institution in universities" is most important. According to observations, the University of Isfahan has no institution with the mission of knowledge commercialization. Commercialization activities are decentralized through the industry liaison office. Indicators of "financing needed in the early stages of the commercialization process (prototyping and product testing)" and "establishing strategic relationships between the university and industry to exchange, transfer, and capture research results" are next in importance.

Isfahan University lacks a proper mechanism for receiving, evaluating and introducing the research commercialization process. The existence of a Knowledge Commercialization Center is essential to conduct training courses related to the research commercialization process. Also designing an information system to introduce research fields, communication with industry can be an effective step in removing the commercialization barriers mentioned in the present research.

This study analyzes the link between Mendeley indexes of scientific-citation networks and Scopus, taking into account the beneficial influence of researchers' actions in social networks on scientometric indices of works indexed in databases like Google scholar and WoS. In this basic/descriptive study, we use the Altmetrics approach to describe Iranian researchers’ activities in industrial engineering in scientific-citation networks. In this study, researchers whose activities are recorded with Iranian affiliation in scientific-citation networks have been briefly named Iranian researchers. The corpus of the study included the works of 160 Iranian researchers in the field of industrial engineering, indexed in the Scopus in the period 2000-2019. To test the likely correlation between the measures of social networks (SN) activities with scientometric ones, simple and multiple correlation tests were carried out by Excel and SPSS software .The correlation between the number of times a document was read, the number of citations, and the measures in the Mendeley, Scopus, We of Science (WoS), and Google Scholar (GS) was very high. However, the correlation between the number of readers in the Mendeley and coauthorship in Scopus was low. There was a strong correlation between the number of citations in Mendeley and that in other databases. The correlation between the authors' H-index in the Mendeley database and other databases is positive and significant, stronger in Scopus and WoS than Google Scholar. It was finally concluded that researchers’ activities in social networks attract more readers, increase the number of citations and thus increase the H-index score in databases. Therefore, they need to be more active in social networks to increase their H-index score and promote academic publications

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of transformational leadership, with the mediating role of individual motivation and knowledge sharing, on the innovative work behavior of public library staff of Fars province.

The present research is an applied study that was conducted using the descriptive-survey method. The statistical population of this study included the staff of public libraries in Fars province, whom at the time of the study numbered 350. 184 people were selected as the research sample using simple random sampling method using Cochran’s formula. In order to collect data, the questionnaire of the officer and others (2019) was used. For data analysis, partial least squares method and structural equation modeling in Smart PLS software were applied.

The results show that transformational leadership has a direct positive and significant effect on innovative work behavior (t = 3.450) transformational leadership directly has a significant positive effect on individual motivation (t = 7.201). Furthermore, individual motivation has a direct and significant positive effect on innovative work behavior (t = 3.847). Transformational leadership has an indirect and significant effect on innovative work behavior due to individual motivation (t = 3.775). Moreover, transformational leadership, considering the moderating role of knowledge sharing, has a significant positive effect on innovative work behavior (t = 7.703), and knowledge sharing reinforces innovative work behavior.

Transformational leadership improves the innovative work behavior of public library staff by influencing their individual motivation. Furthermore, knowledge sharing strengthens the impact of transformational leadership on innovative work behavior. The innovation of this research is in that it has studied the role of transformational leadership in innovative work behavior in the public libraries of Fars province for the first time.

One of the challenges facing public libraries is the use of staff tacit knowledge. In this study, the effect of organizational trust (calculus-based trust, knowledge-based trust, and identity-based trust components) on the transfer of tacit knowledge of staff of Fars Province public library in Iran was investigated.

The present study is an applied research that has collected information by using a descriptive method. The statistical population of this research included all employees of public libraries in Fars province in 2021 (350 people), from 184 individuals were selected as the statistical sample of the research through using simple random sampling method. A questionnaire taken from Fuller’s research (2018) was used to collect data. The independent variable in this research is organizational trust, which includes calculus-based trust, knowledge-based trust, and identity-based trust components. The dependent variable is the transfer of tacit knowledge, which includes two components: the desire to share and the desire to use tacit knowledge. The validity of the questionnaire was calculated using Cronbach’s alpha and combined reliability. In order to investigate the effect of organizational trust on the transfer of tacit knowledge, confirmatory factor analysis and partial least squares technique were applied. Furthermore, SPSS and PLS software were used for statistical analysis.

The results show that the value of t-statistic, in relation to the effect of calculus-based trust on the willingness to share and use of tacit knowledge, is 2.39 and 2.87, respectively. Therefore, calculus-based trust has a positive and significant effect on the transfer of tacit knowledge. Regarding the effect of knowledge-based trust on the tendency to share and apply tacit knowledge, t-statistics are 4.94 and 6.35, respectively. Therefore, knowledge-based trust has a positive and significant effect on the transfer of tacit knowledge. Moreover, regarding the effect of identity-based trust on the tendency to share and apply tacit knowledge, t-statistics are 7.11 and 4.38, respectively. Therefore, identity-based trust has a positive and significant effect on the transfer of tacit knowledge. Furthermore, identity-based trust has a stronger effect on the tendency to share knowledge than sensory and knowledge-based trust. Calculus-based trust, knowledge-based trust, and identity-based trust have a positive and significant effect on employees’ willingness to use tacit knowledge.

The transfer of tacit knowledge is an interactive process that is basically based on trust between the parties. Therefore, it is necessary to examine the role of organizational trust in the transfer of tacit knowledge in a comprehensive and accurate manner in order to identify and remove potential barriers in this area. The results of the present study help the managers of public libraries to establish organizational trust in the relations between individuals and groups of employees, and provide the ground for the transfer of tacit knowledge in public libraries.

Purpose of this study is to review the definitional framework of rare books and to study the historical evolution of special collections in the world and in Iran.

Descriptive method with inductive approach has been used. First, it reviewed the existing definitions of rare books and their shortcomings to finally reach a comprehensive definition; then the historical course of special collections in the world was analyzed and the history and libraries with special collections in Iran were reviewed. The sources used in this research have been collected using documentary and library methods.

Rare books have a definition beyond the old books and the process of transferring information in them does not only include content data. In the second part, four stages were achieved regarding the evolution of special collections in the world (Identification and segregation of rare books; The evolution of rare books in academic libraries; The evolution of rare books and special collections with the opening of these sections in university libraries; Forming a professional organization (ACRL) to meet educational and communication needs), as well as the differences in approaches to special collections in different societies and cultures and the differences between blacks and whites due to differences of concern throughout history.According to experts, in terms of historical position by global definition, we are now in the fourth stage. By reviewing special collections in Iran, the first library with special collections was the library of Vank Church in Isfahan, and in total, 21 libraries with special collections were found in Iran.

Contrary to popular belief, the definition of the term "rare book", which is an important resource in special collections, can vary based on the missions and goals of libraries and their overall strategies, and in general, may not be outside the strategic framework of libraries. Books can be considered potentially scarce and the basis for identifying rare books is largely dependent on the mission of the collections and cannot be evaluated independently. Also, the history of special collections in Iran, unlike the world, does not have a clear course. The stages of its evolution are not clearly defined and the information available in this regard is related to the libraries that have these collections, and the initial purposes of their formation have been largely distorted. This issue will require serious attention to the field of research, and the elimination of existing shortcomings by researchers with different orientations.

Considering the extent and importance of Payame Noor University in higher education and the importance of social sciences in the production of Iranian science, the purpose of this study is to investigate and analyze the quality of scientific products in the field of social sciences of Payame Noor University based on scientometric and altmetrics indices in Scopus from 2010 to 2020.

This descriptive survey study will be performed by scientometric and altmetrics methods and will be a type of applied research. The study population of all scientific productions in the field of social sciences of Payame Noor University, including 557 documents, in 2010 and 2020. Pearson t-test and correlation coefficient were used to analyze the data on the relationship between citation indices and Altmetrics indices.

A comparison of the scientific productions of Iran Social Sciences and Payame Noor University shows that the share of Payame Noor University in the total number of Iranian articles was equal to 2.89%. The rate of articles resulting from scientific collaborations of only the authors of this university with international authors has been 10%. In addition, the citation per paper of these scientific products and its FWCI were 3.1 and 0.63, respectively. In addition, regarding the altmetrics indices of the scientific documents studied in the Scopus database, the Abstract frequency index had the highest frequency with 63944 and an average of 106.57 per article.

The results of this study showed that the amount of science production of Payame Noor University researchers is very low compared to the national level in the field of social sciences and it is necessary to change policies and create incentives for science production in this sector.

This study investigates the relationship between the measurements obtained from the social networks of ResearchGate and Academia with the scientometric indicators of Scopus and Web of Science databases

The present study is of a fundamental type that has been done in a descriptive manner and with an algorithmic approach. The statistical population of the study includes the most prolific authors in the field of Iranian Business Management who have uploaded their documents in the Scopus database between 2000-2019. 160 of these authors, who had the most documents indexed in Scopus, respectively, have been introduced as a statistical sample of the research. In order to investigate the relationship between the metrics obtained by the authors' activities in the research networks of ResearchGate and Academia with the scientometric indicators of Scopus and Web of Science databases, the statistical tests of correlation with the help of Excel and SPSS has been used.

The presence and activity of Business Management writers on the ResearchGate social network is much higher than that of the academia. The relationship between the number of records, citations, H-index and co-authorship in Scopus with the metrics of citation number, citations, etch index, readers, RJ score and followers in ResearchGate is positive and significant. However, there is no significant relationship between Scopus scientometrics and the criteria of followers, viewers and co-authors in the academia.

Commercialization of research results refers to a set of efforts aimed at raising capital and increasing the relationship between the academic and research sector and economic and social sector. The present study intends to identify and rank the factors affecting the commercialization process of research results at Payam-e-Noor University in order to determine the extent of influence of the identified factors. Therefore, this is an applied research in terms of purpose, which studies the factors affecting the process of knowledge commercialization in previous studies, using the confirmatory factor analysis approach. Using fuzzy hierarchical analysis, it was determined that legal, economic, manpower, cultural, structural and political, and communicational and information-related barriers are the first to sixth barriers to the knowledge commercialization in Payam-e-Noor University. Using fuzzy DEMATEL technique, the effectiveness and affectability of factors involved in the process of knowledge commercialization were identified. Accordingly, weak legal framework for supporting idea people at the university, inefficiency and ineffectiveness of the rules and regulations for commercialization, lack of regulation for the apportionment of financial gain from commercialization among scholars, lack of skilled and expert human resources in the universities, lack of facilities and financial resources for research commercialization, and lack of mutual recognition between university and industry had the most affectability. In other words, these are the dependent/outcome variables of the model. On the other hand, inadequate knowledge of the faculty members, poor fund management in the university, weakness of universities in wealth creation, absence of university entrepreneurial missions, the absence of up-to-date and effective idea banks and databases in the universities, and lack of effective communication between students and industry sector’s activists had the most effectiveness. In other words, these variables are the independent/causal variables of the model.

The ultimate goal of innovative behavior is to improve performance of the individual, group, and ultimately organization all together. Many factors are influential in the realization of innovative behavior of employees of an organization. In this study, the influence of two factors of organizational climate and knowledge sharing has been reflected.

The study uses an applied descriptive survey method. Population includes all official 373 employees of knowledge-based companies in Fars province (1399). Sample was189 individuals selected by simple random sampling method using Cochran's formula. Data collection was conducted by: Standard Questionnaires of Organizational Climate ( Book et al., 2005), Knowledge Sharing Questionnaire (Hoff and Reader, 2004), and Innovative Behavior Questionnaire (Johnson and Welba, 2004). Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling tests were used for data analysis.

The results show that organizational climate has a direct and positive effect on innovative behavior and knowledge sharing. Conversely, knowledge sharing also has a direct and positive effect on innovative behavior. The direct effect of organizational climate on innovative behavior is 0.52, which is strengthened by the role of knowledge sharing and increases by 0.83, which means that knowledge sharing by 0.31 has increased the organizational climate effect on innovative behavior.

Appropriately understanding - the type of relationship and how to influence organizational climate and knowledge sharing on the innovative performance of employees in knowledge-based companies - managers will be able to take more appropriate measures to instigate innovation in the company to increase organizational productivity, planning and management.

The significant influence of scientific and citation networks among scientific societies has caused that while identifying influential individuals and universities in each field, the issue of knowledge sharing is also highly considered. With this in mind, the present study investigates the relationship between Mendeley academic social network Altmetrics indices and Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar databases in the field of economy, management, and accounting.

The present study is applied research that has been done in a descriptive-survey method with the Altmetrics approach. The statistical population of the research includes Iranian Authors and researchers in the field of economy, management, and accounting who had indexed documents in the Scopus database in the period of 2000-2019. 160 of the most prolific authors have been introduced and reviewed by Scopus. In order to analyze the data, in addition to descriptive statistics, in the inferential statistics section using Excel and SPSS software, a simple and multiple correlation test between the studied indicators has been used.

The results show a significant and positive relationship between the indicators studied in Mendeley with the scientometric indicators of Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar databases. This relationship is very high in cases such as reading frequency, a number of citations, and HTML index score, Mendeley with Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar, and weak in cases such as Mendeley reader index with Scopus co-authorship index. The results show that the degree of correlation between the citations received in Mendeley and other databases is very high. Also, the relationship between the authors' index in Mendeley and other databases is positive and significant. This relationship is stronger between Scopus and Web of Science than the other databases.

Due to the positive and significant relationship between Mendeley indicators and indicators of other databases, the use of this academic social network in publishing and sharing research results can attract more citations.

Identifying the knowledge structure and mapping the roadmap in different areas of human knowledge can demonstrate the direction of researchers' progress for future studies. This research tries to reveal the intellectual structure of knowledge in health information management and technology, using network analysis, and science visualization tools.

This is an applied research which had done by co-word analysis. The population of this study consists of 35914 records indexed in Web of Science (WoS) in the period 2007-2016. For careful examination, the mentioned interval is divided into two five-year periods (2007–2011 and 2012–2016). All retrieved records in this study were incorporated into the study and no sampling was used.

The results indicated that in the first five-year period the co-words "E-Health and Telemedicine", and in the second five-year period the co-words "Computers and Medical Records" had the most occurrence. The results of hierarchical clustering led to the formation of eight thematic clusters in the first period and five thematic clusters in the second period. The themes of these clusters are: text mining, personal health, health information, medical information, quality of life, medical imaging, public health, medical education, health care, feature selection, medical information provision, and simulation.

Topics such as simulation, medical imaging, and medical information provision have received less attention from the authors. These results indicate that the research fronts have tended to focus on educational and public health issues.

This study was intended to investigate the opinion of the users of the Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi (CLAQR) regarding the provided services using Six-Sigma methodology. This is an applied descriptive-survey study that explores the gap between the minimum level of expectations, the current status, and the maximum level of users’ expectations regarding the human force services, information resources, and space available in the CLAQR. The data were collected by the Libqual Questionnaire and analyzed using SPSS 23. The average score of 72.88% for users’ opinions regarding the indicator of human force (HF) in CLAQR shows the relative satisfaction of users in this regard. Only the indicator of “prepared staff for answering the users’ questions”, with a 50% satisfaction score, failed to meet the minimum expectations of the users. The average score of 76.88% regarding users’ opinions about the quality of the available resources in the library also indicates their relative satisfaction. Among the indicators related to the quality of resources, “audiovisual materials” received the highest satisfaction score (93.33%). The average score of 72.95% for users’ opinions indicates overall satisfaction with space and amenities available. However, the scores of some sub-indicators such as “comfortable and pleasant place” and “the presence of proper space for studying and learning” related to the current status were even lower than the minimum expectation level The results show that overall, CLAQR has been successful in gaining 79.2% user satisfaction. The proximity of the actual level of service to the maximum level of users’ expectations enhances the quality of service provided by the library, and it will be possible to gain users’ maximum satisfaction with greater effort and focus on removing existing shortcomings.