جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « مجلات » در نشریات گروه « پزشکی »

In this study, in order to increase the visibility of articles in Scopus journals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), selective dissemination of information (SDI) service was presented and its impact on some citation indices was investigated.

This is a semi-experimental study of two groups (pretest-posttest design with a control group). In this study, TUMS Scopus indexed journals (20 titles) were randomly divided into test and control groups  and their citation indices were assessed. Then, the SDI services for test group journals were designed based on PubMedchr('39')s Alert system and presented to the universitychr('39')s top researchers for one year. Finally, the citation indices of the journals of test and control groups were reassessed and compared. For data analysis, independent t-test, paired t-test and, covariance analysis were used.

Comparison of mean citations as well as SJR, SNIP and CiteScore indices before and after the intervention showed no significant difference between the test and control groups. But the average CiteScore in both groups after the intervention was significantly higher than the average before the intervention. 

The results showed that the provision of the aformentioned services in the time period defined in this study had no significant effect on the citation indices. However, the valuable experiences gained in this study will undoubtedly be applicable to future research as well as services to researchers, librarians, and journal managers.

Research journals are costly and government-dependent services. Therefore, this study is carried out with the aim to determine the cost of publishing an article in selected journals of Yazd University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran, through the activity-based costing (ABC) techniques.

In this descriptive study, in order to calculate the cost of publishing an article in three scientific journals of Yazd University of Medical Sciences, initially, the process of publishing an article was identified and then the primary activities were uncovered. Moreover, the secondary activities were identified through reviewing manuscripts, observation, and interviewing the process owners. The cost centers related to the primary and secondary activities were identified and the cost data related to these cost centers were uncovered from the financial documents; this way, the cost of article publication was calculated.

The cost for the Journal of Food Quality and Hazards Control, Journal of Toloo-e-Behdasht, and Journal of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences was calculated to be as 17131509 Rials, 8337468 Rials, and 5343960 Rials, respectively. The editing and layout and initial review steps were the costliest among the steps for publishing an article. Furthermore, the highest percentage of total cost of the primary and secondary activities was related to the cost of human resources.

Initial review, editing, and layout steps are costly in the initial activities of the journals. Given that the human resource costs are the major cost of publishing an article, improving human resource (HR) performance can be effective in reducing costs.

In recent years, scientific output in the field of medical science has grown dramatically, and the determination of the appropriate index for their measurement is necessary. The purpose of the present study is to review the status of existing scientific and index indicators for the evaluation of scientific outputs in the field of medical sciences.In this review study, using Persian keywords (sciences, indexes, journals, universities, researcher) in the Persian Data bases of Magiran, noormags, Irandoc, National Library, Regional Science, Scientific Information Database (SID), Civilica, and Latin Keywords (Scientometric, indicator, Journals, University, Researcher) External databases were searched by Google Advanced Search, Pubmed, Google Scholar, Scopus, ISI and Research Gate. In this regard, it is attempted to extract the most relevant documents in the period 2005-2019 as follows. As a result of the keyword search in the article title, 28 articles with valid and reliable information were reviewed. The findings from the studies showed that there is a unity in all studies, which the existing indices alone cannot fully evaluate the scientific outputs, and all researchers in their research sought to provide a new index to complement or replace the indices. Therefore, scientific work is a complex activity that needs to be evaluated by more than one metric and the need to use synthetic indices cannot be ignored. Nowadays, scientometrics has been widely used to better understand the strengths and weaknesses and to predict and predict the scientific status of researchers at medical universities.

There are some strengths and weaknesses in current indicators of scientometrics. This study aimed to present a new index of scientometrics in evaluating scientific output of Iranian medical journals.

This exploratory analytical study was done with a scientometric approach in scientific output of 108 medical science journals indexed in Scopus and 63 scientific output of the universities of medical sciences in Iran, 2018. Data were collected using a checklist that included scientometric factors. The inclusion criteria was to have at least two articles indexed in the Scopus database and at least one citation. The index to be calculated was the ratio of the number of articles with at least one citation to zero according to the Odds index.

Findings showed that the mean h-index of journals was 14.06 and the mean O-index was 2.29. In universities, the highest mean values of O-index, h-index, and h5-index were 2.724, 85.8, and 45.7, respectively belonging to type I universities. There were significant relationships in O, h, and h5 indices between the three types of universities (P= 0.000).

According to this study, the O-index was correlated with the h-index and could be very useful in evaluating the scientific output of universities and journals alongside other indices.

Many different indices are used to evaluate the scientific production of universities, research centers and researchers. H-index represents the quality of published researches. In the present study we determined the H-index of faculty members in the dentistry department of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences.

The H-index of academic staff in the department of dentistry in Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences was extracted from the Scopus database until the beginning of 2012. Relation between the H-index and related factors was studied by Chi square test.

Out of 107 of academic staffs in the department of dentistry of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, relevant information of 98 individuals was extracted, (91 percent), H-index of 46 faculty members was equal to or more than one (43 percent). Statistical analysis revealed that the number of articles and academic grading of faculties had significant relationship with the H-index of faculty members (p<0.05).

Overall, the number of faculty members with H-index of 1 or higher is low. Programs to improve the quality of research papers are urgently needed.