جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « سازمان تحقیقات » در نشریات گروه « کتابداری و مدیریت اطلاعات »

The present research aims to identify the usefulness of the FWCI in evaluating the research activities of the researchers of the Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension Organization. In addition, the comparison of different subject fields of the organization in terms of the FWCI scores and also the comparison of the researchers' FWCI score of the organization with their H-index have been among other goals.

The current research was conducted with a scientometric approach and using the citation analysis method. The research community consists of 13,066 international articles from 1,589 researchers of the Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension Organization, whose data was extracted from the Scopus database and the Scientometric System of the organization. For the current research, only those researchers who simultaneously had an H-index of 1 and whose articles also had the FWC score (1589 people in total) were extracted from this collection and their data for this study. Were analyzed. The calculation of the average FWCI of the researchers was based solely on the articles with the mentioned score, and the articles without this score were excluded from the scope of the review. Data analysis was done using Excel and SPSS software.

The findings of the research show that in the investigated period, an average of 8 articles were published by each researcher, and these articles received a total of 206,175 citations. The average H-index of these researchers was 4 and their average FWCI score was 0.398. The highest score obtained in the FWCI index was 9.85. Researchers with the rank of professor and assistant professor have equally obtained an average of 0.46 in this index, and researchers with the rank of associated professor have also obtained a score of 0.42. The average of this index for all eleven subject groups is less than 1, and at the same time, the subject group of forest and pasture and natural resources with a score of 0.61 is higher than the other groups and the subject group of education is lower than the other groups with a score of 0.35. At the same time, the subject group of forest and pasture is ranked fourth in the H-index with an average of 4.07. The results also show that there is no direct relationship between the researchers' H-index and their FWCI scores as a whole, or such a relationship is very weak. According to the findings of the research, in some areas (such as agricultural biotechnology), a higher average H-index does not necessarily mean a higher quality of the articles, and the weighted subject average of these articles is at a lower level compared to their peers globally. On the contrary, in some areas such as soil protection, water, and watershed management, although it has a lower H-index average, it has far better conditions in terms of FWCI average score.

In total, the score of the organization's researchers in the FWCI is much lower than the global average, both in general and in terms of subject groups. In addition, despite the lack of wide differences between FWCI and H-indexes, using FWCI in evaluating the articles of the organization's researchers can be more reliable.

Quality evaluation of the provincial centers’ websites affiliated to Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO) based on FAO indices

This is an applied research that used a descriptive survey with a webometrics approach to evaluate content and structural factors of 38 websites of the provincial centers affiliated to Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO) by Web Quality Assurance Checklist of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), containing 121 indices under 4 general indices.

The evaluation showed "average" score in content quality, "good" in accessibility, usability and search engine optimization, "average" in Interface and technical quality, "average" in regular monitoring and review, and "average" in general. None of the centers’ websites could reach to the levels of FAO indices. The major problems were: the lack of attention to using standards in website design portal, lack of scientific citations, lack of second language for scientific communication and exchange with international scientific communities, existence of discrete links and blank pages, template bugs, and lack of inserting copy right.

Average level in general for the websites due to the existence of some essential problems is not desired and need to amend with expert designers, qualified managers and redesign with accredited website design standards.

This study aims to identify the extent of reflection of English-language  articles by Iranian researchers of the Agricultural Research, Education and Extension    Organization on social media based on Altmetric indicators.

This research is applied in terms of purpose, a scientometrics study in terms of method which was done with a descriptive-analytical approach. The research population included 3251 articles published by the organization's researchers in international journals indexed in the Scopus database from 2015-2018. The main tools used to collect the data were the Scientometric System and the Bookmarklet plugin of the    Altmetric site.  

The findings show that 528 articles (16.24%) out of the total articles have been reflected at least once in various social media. The average Altmetrix score for all articles was 3.15. The findings also show that out of a total of 17,688 events on social media, Mendeley's share with 10,241 (57.9%) and Twitter with 3,613 (20.43%) have the highest events than other media. In addition, there is no strong significant correlation between the number of citations and the Altmetric score, or between the citation rate and reflection in the Mendeley and Twitter media. Thematic analysis of the reflections also shows that the field of the Environment with a total Altmetrix score of 3596 and then the fields of Botany and Animal sciences with the scores of 641 and 450 have   received the most attention from social media.

Although the level of reflection of international articles of agricultural researchers of the organization is acceptable compared to similar studies, the first authors of the best articles reflected in these media are none of the researchers of the organization and have no Iranian origin. Also, the reflection of articles on social media has had little effect on increasing the citation rate.

to evaluate science and technology in the agriculture domain, determination of specific indicators are necessary. The present study has been designed to provide a model (Science and Technology Assessment System) for evaluating science and technology of agriculture.

The stages of research based on the design science method. This method contains three basic steps in a mixed research frame.  By using documentary study method, 404 related or general indicators were identified in the field of agriculture. In the Delphi technique, 271 indicators from 404 indicators were selected by agricultural experts. Finally, based on the frameworks of science and technology evaluation at the national and international levels, a framework for evaluating the science and technology system in Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization has been proposed.

In this research, 8 general categories of research and technology, production of technological products, genetic resources and biodiversity management, training, extension, human capital, financial and infrastructure have been proposed for the overall framework of the evaluation system of the science and technology indicators of the Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization.

Conclustion:

 26 science and technology indicators in in the field of agriculture were approved by field experts. These indicators, with the priority between 1 and 2 and Kendall coordination coefficient more than 0.7, were in five main components of race, exploration, mapping, extensible findings and technology for the evaluation system model Agriculture. This template has the ability to implement and evaluate indicators in different time periods.

 The overall purpose of this study is to identify the status of familiarity and acceptance of the standard of description and access to the source (ARD) by librarians of the Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization.

 In terms of purpose, the present study is an applied one that measured the familiarity of 18 librarians working in the Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization with RDAs through a questionnaire before and after training and their acceptance of the rules. The validity of the questionnaire was determined by content validity method and its reliability was measured by Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Descriptive and inferential statistics have been used to analyze the data. SPSS software was used to analyze the data and the results and findings of the research were presented in the form of tables and graphs (using Excel software).

 The rate of familiarity of librarians with the meanings of cataloging in pre-training was average (43.65%) and then (23.23%) respectively. But after holding a one-day workshop, their awareness of these concepts changed to moderate (47.62%) and then high (23.81%). In general, librarians have agreed to accept RDA.

 The readiness and perspective for the acceptance of the rules of description and access to the source (RDA) by the catalogers working in the libraries of the organization is higher than the average level. The necessity of providing sufficient training to catalogers to take advantage of software based on new changes is a high priority and one of the main priorities.

The present study aims to explain and elucidate the evaluating indicators ofscience, technology in Iranian Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization based on the analysis of high level documents and Persian and non-Persian articles relevent to activities of the organization that have been approved by the experts.

For this research, in the first stage, the Meta-synthesis was used. Out of 108 documents related to the research topic, 26 were analyzed. To analyse the indices obtained during the process, a survey of experts using the Delphi technique was used. Thus, the present research method is triangulation mixed method.

In total, 8 main criteria including research and technology, products from technological research, genetic resources and biodiversity management, education, extension, human capital, financial and infrastructure resources along with 242 indicators for the evaluation of science and technology, were confirmed by the experts.

In addition to the conventional indicators in high level documens, the science and technology indicators of the Organization derived from the Delphi study based on special two-tier of "products from technological research" and "genetic reserve and biodiversity management" demonstrated the highest level of consensus among experts and can serve as the indicators for assessing agricultural science and technology.

The use of the rules of description and access to the source (RDA), as the new rules of cataloging, and in accordance with the new environment and sources of information, are indispensable. The purpose of this research is to identify the possibility of using RDA in the Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization based on the consistency of bibliographic records prepared in Simorgh software with RDA.

The present study is an applied research and has been carried out in a comparative and analytical survey. A total of 210 Persian bibliographic records were reviewed on the subject of agricultural inputs in the library software used in the Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization.

The results showed that the differences with RDA were 45.56 percent, followed by typing and spelling errors of 33.75%, negligence in entering information by 21 percent, and cataloging forms with 8.1 percent in the records and lack of data entry. The right fields were 3.79 percent. Using the results of this study, an appropriate field for planning for the use of RDA is provided. Doing such research is recommended by the Strategic Committee of RDA, and the results will be useful for international cooperation in this regard.

In the end, a proposed model for the use of RDA was presented at the Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization.