International Journal of Information Science and Management
Volume:21 Issue: 2, Spring 2023

This study aimed to determine the mapping of research in sharia economics and finance from 2010 to 2021 with scientometrics analysis to see the dynamics of research in the field of Islamic economics conducted by Indonesian and Malaysian researchers. Data were retrieved from the Scopus database. The analysis process was conducted using only the Vosviewer software version 1.6.16 to analyze and visualize co-authorship, co-occurrence, and co-citation. This research used separate keywords such as "Sharia Economics", "Islamic Bank", "Zakat and Waqf", "Islamic Finance", "Halal Industry", and "Sharia Fintech". This research found 2435 articles, 449 authors, and 471 topics related to sharia economics and finance. Malaysia's three most productive writers are Rusni Hassan, Adam Abdullah, and Saaidah Mohamad.Meanwhile, the three most productive authors from Indonesia are Raditya Sukmana, Dwi Suhartanto, and Aam Slamet Rusydiana. Islamic banking is the topic that dominated research in Indonesia and Malaysia in 2010-2021. Topics still not widely researched are among the 6 keywords used, namely "sharia economics" and "Fintech". From the co-citation analysis, there were 953 references used in research in the Islamic economics and finance field in Indonesia and Malaysia from 2010-2021. Topics dominated are references from research and sources with the theme of Islamic banks. From this research, it is hoped that researchers in Islamic economics and finance can increase research collaboration and conduct more research on topics that are still not widely studied. Future research can explore more deeply the dynamics of research in the field of Islamic economics and finance in various countries from time to time.

This study aims to analyze the multidimensional scientific collaborations of Iranian researchers in Blockchain technology. For this purpose, the published scientific documents related to Blockchain in international journals were retrieved from two citation databases, Scopus of Elsevier and Web of Science of Clarivate, and used with ScientoPy v2.1.0 bibliography software to integrate and visualize the data with VOSviewer software. We searched databases without limiting the date until September 29, 2021. Researchers in this field indexed 158 records during five years in citation databases and found that the collaboration index equals 3.91. This study depicted Iranian researchers' cooperation patterns in the Blockchain field. The 149 national and international organizations in 43 countries collaborated to publish articles in the Blockchain area with Iranian researchers. The impact of co-authorship with citations rate was analyzed to increase the flow of knowledge between researchers in this field. There was a weak, positive correlation between the two variables, r = .209, N = 152; however, the relationship was significant (p = .010). The number of researchers appears to be associated with the rate of citation. With the results of this study, policy recommendations can be provided for managers and decision-makers in science and technology. The potential benefits of Blockchain technology activists can be used to develop national interests by determining the existing conditions for cooperation between Iranian researchers.

Corporate reputation is vital in today’s uncertain and challenging business environment. It is crucial for firms’ long-term viability, prominence in a competitive market, and relationship with the stakeholders. Research on corporate reputation has been increasing tremendously. This study aimed to perform a bibliometric analysis to find the trends in corporate reputation publications, influential countries, institutions, sources, and scholars and propose a model that could impact corporate reputation. The keyword “corporate reputation” was used as it is a collective view of all stakeholders by using the TITLE-ABS-KEY, inserted with quotation marks. One thousand eight hundred seven publications from 1977 to 2020 were extracted from the Scopus database. Data were exported to Microsoft Excel, Publish or Perish (PoP), and VOSviewer. The trends show an increase in corporate reputation research, with most corporate reputation studies focusing on business, management, and accounting fields. The United States accounted for nearly half of the corporate reputation publications, with New York University being the most productive institution. Some of the scholars have been mentioned in this paper. A proposed model has been developed, comprising the corporate image, e-communication, stakeholder, philanthropy, and leadership as the variables that could impact corporate reputation. This model could be further explored using qualitative or case studies. Also, contingency theory could be explored in the corporate reputation area. This study’s contribution is to provide an overview to scholars on the corporate reputation research area.

Social media attention to scholarly articles has become a novel measure for assessing the broader impact of research, which complements the traditional citation metrics. This article examined the correlation between citations with major altmetric indicators for 1951 LIS articles published in 2020. Altmetric Explorer was used for collecting the data, and analysis was done using Excel and SPSS. The result showed that LIS articles were well engaged on social media platforms gaining more societal attention than their scientific reference in terms of citations. Mendeley (69.40%) and Twitter (28.72%) were the top intakes of LIS articles, and Pinterest (0.001%) and F1000 (0.001%) were the least ones. The users from the USA were the major Twitterati for the LIS articles, with average Tweeters of -0.58 across the globe. The users from the UK were the top mentioner of the articles on Facebook (2.7%), while the USA was on the News and mainstream media (55.6%). Except for Peer review (r= -0.05), all other altimetric indicators were positively associated with Dimensions citations. The study's findings allow the authors to analyze the societal impact of their scholarship through altmetric indicators and use altmetric indicators as supplementary to the citation metrics for measuring the immediate impact of the LIS scientific outputs.

The study highlights the research collaboration and growth rate in multiple disabilities by utilizing social network analysis based on 27708 scholarly communications that appeared during 2006-2020. It analyses the types and trends of authorship patterns through various indices and by employing social network analysis. The study aims to construct a coauthorship network at the micro and macro levels to disclose the intellectual structure of prolific authors. The study exemplifies the growth rate with mean average growth rate (0.09), relative growth rate (0.23) and doubling time (3.52) which specifies that there is no constant rate of augmentation found in the research field and authors tend to work collaboratively. While comparing the prolific authors' Scientometric measures with social network measures, the author Kappos L has secured the highest position in production (255), with the utmost H-Index (67), G-index (154), M-Index (3.914) and citation (24478). He is the best collaborator with the highest cluster level of 354, degree centrality (84) and close to other authors with (0.847).

Due to the importance of maternal health for the development of society and the role of information systems in improving healthcare, this study aims to investigate and analyze the characteristics and topics of articles published in the field of information systems in maternal health. The articles were retrieved from the Web of Science (WoS) on October 23, 2021. The bibliometric indicators included the number of documents and citations, top journals, institutes, and countries. The co-authorship collaboration network of the countries was examined using Bibliometrix 3.1 package and VOSviewer software (ver. 1.6.17). In addition to bibliometric analysis, the related topic modelling was calculated with Non-Matrix Factorization (NMF) algorithm in Python programming language. Overall, 1140 original articles were published in the selected field in the WoS database within the years 1991-2021. The results demonstrated an ascending growth in the number of publications. The "The University of London", the "London School of Hygiene Tropical Medicine", and the "World Health Organization"  (WHO) contributed the most to this field orderly. Researchers from the USA with 372 (32.63%), Brazil with 267 (23.42%), and England with 150 (13.2%) documents had the most scientific collaboration on publishing in this regard. The USA and England had the most collaboration in 38 articles in the co-authorship network of countries. Based on topic modelling analysis, five topic clusters, including "maternal mortality", "child and infant mortality", "risk factors related to pregnancy and maternal health", "Geographic Information Systems (GISs)", and "data quality in Health Information Systems (HISs)" were considered for this research. According to the research results, it can be concluded that there is a rising trend in the number of articles published in the field of information systems in maternal health. The USA, Brazil, and England have played a prominent role in scientific production in this regard. Given that this study gives a snapshot of the current status of the research topic and visualizes the collaboration between countries, the obtained results can guide future collaboration and encourage scientific institutes to expand their interactions.

Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) has attracted increasing research interest for sustainable management and decision-making in recent years. In order to further understand the research status and trend, the purpose of this study is to adopt bibliometric and visual methods to analyze the knowledge structure and the evolution path in the research field of ESG. Based on 1735 papers on ESG in the Web of Science Collection database from 2004 to 2021, this study uses CiteSpace and VOSviewer to present a bibliometric overview of publications, citation structure, authors, universities, countries/regions, journals, and keywords that work on this Topic. Results indicate that scholars are increasingly regarding ESG as an integrated sustainability analysis framework and paying more attention to the connection among its different dimensions. According to the growth trend, ESG may remain a hot research topic for the next few years. The USA is the most productive country followed by England and China. Journals on ESG research with higher effective factors have higher co-citation frequency and higher publications. Sustainable development, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, ESG, and ESG ratings as the research hotspots are presented. Additionally, this study provides an overview of the ESG research trends for future researchers. This may aid researchers in understanding current patterns and future study paths, allowing future authors to perform their studies more successfully.

This applied altmetric study aimed to analyze the presence of highly-cited documents on diabetes mellitus in online social media and correlate their altmetric attention scores with their received citation counts. Twenty thousand highly-cited documents on diabetes mellitus were identified in Scopus and their altmetric attention scores (ASSs) were extracted from Altmetric Explorer (Altmetric LLP, London, UK). Received citation rates of the documents were extracted from Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science and Dimensions. Excell 2016 and SPSS 22 were used for data statistical description and analysis. Out of 19,383 DOI-owner highly-cited documents on diabetes mellitus, 16,076 (82.94%) were shared at least once in social media and had an altmetric attention score. Mendeley ranked first in sharing documents with 16,868 documents (87.02%). Six hundred forty-six thousand one hundred eighty-four tweets were tweeted on the studied documents from 222 countries, with the United States as first-ranked country (17,453 tweets, 18.2%). The highest-mentioned journal was the Lancet, and the highest-mentioned research institute was Harvard University. A significantly positive correlation was found between the altmetric attention scores of the studied documents and their citation counts in Google scholar (r= .842, p<.01), Scopus (r=.855, p<.01), Web of Science (r=.709, p<.05) and Dimensions (r= .841, p< .01). Regarding the central role of presence in social media in increasing the visibility and citability of documents, researchers must use the potentiality of social media and Web 2 tools for more sharing their scientific works and increasing the influence of their research output. In this study the relationship between the presence of documents in online social media and tools and their received citation rates was investigated in a large sample (20,000 diabetes mellitus documents). The results benefit researchers and research administrators for sharing and publicizing research output in social media.

Scientometric study on covid-19 has taken place to highlight the latest trend and situation of literature on covid-19. After the outbreak from Wuhan city, coronavirus spread over the world and that destroyed the whole health, mobility, livelihood and socio-economic management. To make a qualitative and quantitative investigation this scientometric study is eventuated. Thousands of research output are proliferating on this epidemic situation. During 18 months (2019 December-2021 May) WOS database indexed 1234 literature on covid-19 and related topics. Most of the publishers dropped their paywall and made it open access for more communication. To exact all secondary bibliographic data a string was created with a time span. For visualization and mapping, a .txt file has been downloaded from the WOS database. Some statistical formulas are adequate to calculate annual growth rate (AGR), author productivity, collaborative coefficient (CC).  WOS viewers, MS Excel, QGIS, software also used for data representation. The outcome results are, the direction of literature growth map always upwards. In the top 10 journals and authors, ‘Medicine’ and ‘Wang J’ ranked top. Author collaboration was maximum (0.997) but more collaboration was required. China, India and the USA contributed the most with relevant research output. Covid-19 is near all subject disciplines, where medical science, environmental science, engineering and social science are gathered. It is hoped that this type of research outcome will help the government and society to manage and develop strategies for the future to prevent such natural disasters.

This study attempts to measure scientific literacy among the citizens of Ahvaz. The data collection tool was a validated questionnaire with 5 dimensions, 25 components and 316 items. The study's statistical population involved all the citizens of Ahvaz over 18 years of age, and the stratified random sampling method was utilized. Besides, 600 questionnaires were distributed in Ahvaz Municipality, of which 401 completed questionnaires were finally analyzed. Data was analyzed using a one-sample t-test and Friedman test via SPSS and Excel software. The results showed that the scientific literacy among the citizens of Ahvaz was above average. It is therefore suggested that managers and policymakers in Ahvaz use the results of the present study and conduct periodic surveys on the scientific literacy of Ahvazi citizens to solve their problems and improve their level of scientific literacy. The validated questionnaire used in the present study can be administered in similar studies on micro and macro scales.

This infodemiological study examined information-seeking behavior of users and the scientific production of Iranian researchers in the field of multiple Sclerosis (MS). The present study was conducted using a mixed-methods research approach. In the qualitative part, the preferred terms and keywords used by Iranian users in the field of MS from 2009 to 2019 were extracted through focused group discussions. In the quantitative part, based on the keywords extracted from the focus group discussions, the data on the information-seeking behavior of Iranian users were collected through Google Trends (using data mining techniques). Besides, the data on the scientific production of Iranian researchers published on multiple Sclerosis in PubMed, Web of Science (WoS), and Scopus from 2009 to 2019 were collected (using scientometric methods). The data collected using web mining techniques consisted of the keywords obtained from the focus group interviews, and the data collected using scientometric techniques included scientific products of Iranian researchers indexed in PubMed, Web of Science (WoS), and Scopus databases. Finally, to investigate the relationship between the information-seeking behavior of Internet users and the scientific production of researchers in the field of MS, the cross-correlation method, Shapiro-Wilk test, and Pearson correlation test was used in R software. The results of the Shapiro-Wilk test indicated that the information-seeking behavior of users in Google Trends and the scientific production of Iranian researchers on MS were normal (P-value> 0.05). However, the two variables had a powerfully negative and significant correlation (r = -0.81). The data also revealed that the keyword MS had the highest search volume index in Google Trends and was considered the final keyword in each category. The core category in the searches conducted by Iranian users in the MS field was MS treatment; most searches were conducted in 2013. The study's findings also indicated that the countries with higher search volume indexes for the keywords "MS" and "Multiple Sclerosis" worldwide were Italy, Spain, France, Russia, and Greece. However, the United States had the highest volume of scientific production. The results of the present study showed that Iranian researchers working in the field of multiple Sclerosis ignore reducing the questions of Iranian users in this field and have conducted their research projects for other reasons; In fact, many factors contribute to increasing the volume of scientific production in multiple Sclerosis. However, users' demand for health information or their information-seeking behavior online cannot be considered one of these factors. Information-seeking behavior of Iranian users in Google Trends and the scientific production of Iranian researchers have a strongly negative and significant correlation. Thus, the scientific production in the field of MS has increased over time. Still, Iranian users' tendency to engage in behaviors to seek information about MS in Google Trends has decreased over time. This implies that with scientific advancements in MS, physicians prevent most patients from searching the Internet for information about their disease. Nevertheless, the increasing use of online social media in recent years has effectively reduced the search volume index and changed information-seeking behavior.

Improving information retrieval skills and promoting maternal health literacy of pregnant women leads to their ability to access, understand, and use health information. It leads to maintaining and promoting the health of of pregnant women. The current study aimed to investigate the relationship between health literacy and the health information-seeking behavior of pregnant women referring to health centers in Bushehr. This is applied research that is carried out in a survey method. The statistical population of this study is 271 pregnant women referring to health centers in Bushehr who were selected by stratified random sampling method. Data were collected using health information behavior and health literacy questionnaires and analyzed by SPSS software version 24. Findings showed that 25% of women had good health information-seeking behavior. Also, 51% of pregnant women had inadequate health literacy, 25% had border health literacy, and 24% had adequate health literacy. The findings also confirmed a significant relationship between health information-seeking behavior and health literacy (P = 0.011). As the low and unfavorable health literacy among the pregnant women in Bushehr municipality, health policymakers should pay more attention to improving such a situation. If we accept that the poor information-seeking behavior alongside the low health literacy causes the wrong health information, then it can be advised that the health information-seeking skills education becomes a part of the policymakers' planning. Furthermore, they have to provide proper educational materials with an understandable language to enable pregnant women.

The rapid spread of COVID-19 and its transformation into a pandemic has caused anxiety and worry, especially in patients with underlying diseases such as Cancer. The present study aimed to investigate the information-seeking behaviors to prevent COVID-19 disease in cancer patients in Kerman in 2020. The present study is an applied study of objectives and a descriptive-correlational study in its design and methodology. The research population included cancer patients admitted to Shahid Bahonar, Afzalipoor Hospitals, and Javadalameh Clinic in Kerman. Out of 3000 patients, the sample size was randomly estimated to be 250 persons. This study's findings indicated that most patients needed Information about a healthy diet to boost their immune system against COVID-19 disease. Moreover, the patients were more likely to search for COVID-19 Information through simple search (common words that came to their mind). They frequently used COVID-19-related TV programs as a source of Information to raise awareness of the disease. The patients reported that reading or hearing shocking Information about COVID-19 made it difficult to access sources and Information related to the disease. Besides, the retrieved Information helped them to identify COVID-19 symptoms. Most of the patients also stated that they washed their hands regularly with soap and water to prevent COVID-19 disease.

The medical profession currently has extensive information and knowledge of the latest valid scientific advances in disease diagnosis, treatment strategies, and patient care, and is used by physicians, but there is little evidence on the assessment the usefulness of information used by physicians in dealing with clinical problems. The aim of this study is to interpret the value of information received from library sources in clinical decision-making experienced by physicians and residents. The study is qualitative. The participants were 28 subjects including 13 specialists, 4 subspecialists, and 11 resident of healthcare educational centers of Birjand city chosen through purposeful sampling method. For data collection, semi-structured interview and for data analysis, Colaizzi seven stage method was used. 7 main themes were identified including clinical, cognitive, qualitative, status, Guidance, pedagogic and research and 34 subthemes. The results showed that information have been valuable from different aspects in clinical decision-making. Thus, providing and making up-to-date as well as relevant information accessible to the healthcare team should be the agenda of medical sciences libraries as well as healthcare policymakers.

This paper compared and contrasted the open access (OA) self-archiving policies of different organizations registered in OpenDOAR, ROAR and ROARMAP databases. It highlights and discusses key policies along with several issues to suggest an institute-specific model policy framework in the line of recommendations and best practises of IDRs (Institutional Digital Repositories) listed in global tertiary sources in green open access ROARMAP, OpenDOAR and ROAR. This paper focuses on IDR policy issues concerning rights, access, and user interfaces. A total of 66 repositories have been selected after overlap checking and based on the selection parameters mentioned in the methodology section. It has been discovered that most IDRs lack policies in the four areas mentioned. Several policy issues are missing, and some of the policy issues used by these repositories are still being developed and improved. Based on the study, some suggestions for the development of IDR policies have been made. It has implications for administrators, funding agencies, policymakers, and professional librarians in developing repository policies of their own.

The present study intended to examine ISC World University Ranking (ISC WUR) as an emerging ranking system. It draws on a descriptive-correlational method. First, the internal correlation held between the criteria of the ISC WUR was examined to clarify the representation of the total university score from each of its functional criteria in the ISC WUR system. Afterwards, the study assessed the extent to which the ISC WUR results diverge or converge at the general level and examined the similarities and differences between ISC WUR criteria and indicators results and those of Leiden, Nature Index, THE, and QS as complicated university rankings. The research sample included the universities ranked via the five global ranking systems in 2020. All ISC WUR’s indicators revealed significant and positive correlations with the total ranking scores of the universities. There was a significantly positive correlation between the ISC WUR and those of Leiden, Nature Index, THE, and QS.Moreover, the indicators similarly present in ISC WUR and other ranking systems were significantly and positively correlated. In conclusion, the overall performance of each university in ISC WUR reflects all the functional criteria of that university, especially the criteria of research and international activities. Besides, although the ICS WUR and the other systems have differences and similarities in methodology, the results obtained from these systems are similar to a certain extent. Nevertheless, these similarities are not strong enough to claim that the ISC WUR presents the same results as other ranking systems.