Ahmad Shabani

University of Isfahan · Department of Knowledge and Information Science

The exponential growth of digital information has led to the pervasive problem of information overload, affecting decision-making, productivity, and well-being. This article reviews the existing literature on the various effects of information overload, its underlying causes, and strategies for managing it. A scoping review of English literature up...

This research aims to identify some patterns of author (as user) generated tags to the papers of library and information science field in Academia.edu. The research method is typically based on text analysis and word frequency distribution. The population contains over 6000 papers tagged in Academia.edu, and their abstracts were extracted from 159...

Considering the specific nature of humanities and their fields and the need to design scientific outputs in proportion to these fields, the present study has sought to determine types of scientific outputs in the fields of language and literature and assess their significance and position for the evaluation of research. The study has been conducted...

Considering the function of humanities and its comparison with other sciences, this research seeks to examine the scientific outputs and the weight of each, evaluation criteria and indicators, and the relationship between each output and criteria in the evaluation of these sciences Especially in language and literature. In terms of purpose, the res...

Currently, the world is in the fourth industrial revolution, where the speed of innovation has accelerated both in terms of development and diffusion; technologies bring more in sync with the needs of societies, and the complex technologies of a new world named “Metaverse” are rapidly increasing, expanding, and spreading. There are many uncertainti...

This research aims to verify the patterns of users’ tagging to the articles of knowledge and information science field in academia.edu. The research method is quantitative and based on text mining and applicable typically. The population includes 6086 bibliographic articles and their abstracts extracted from 159 English journals of knowledge and in...

پژوهش حاضر با هدف بررسی الگوهای برچسب گذاری کاربران » آکادمیا « به مقالات مرتبط با حوزة علم اطلاعات و دان ششناسی در پایگاه انجام شد. روش پژوهش از لحاظ رويکرد، کمي و مبتني بر پژوه شهاي تحلیل متن و از لحاظ نوع، کاربردي است. جامعة آماري پژوهش حاضر، شامل 6086 مقالة برگرفته از 159 مجلة انگليس يزبان حوزة علم اطلاعات و و جزء مجات هسته » اسکوپوس « دان ششنا...

Purpose: The outbreak of Covid-19 virus caused long-term closure of university libraries and increasd telework by librarians. This research has aimed to explore the impact of telework on their job satisfaction interms of communication, job promotion, awards, salary and benefits, supervision, job conditions, peerformance, coworkers, and desire to wo...

Measuring information intelligence is especially important in information societies. The present study aimed to identify indices and measures effective and design a model for measuring information intelligence. The research used a mixed method to achieve objectives. Data collection tools included the study of scientific literature and interviews. T...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify the disadvantages of evaluating humanities research outputs by emphasizing the fields of language and literature in evaluating researchers and provide solutions to improve it. Methodology: The present study is of applied type with qualitative content analysis method. The statistical population of th...

SoleimanZadeh Najafi, N. & Asemi, A., Shabani, A., & CheshmeSohrabi, M. (2022). An introduction to the Internet of Things in information centers. Tehran: Chapar & Asatir-e-Parsi. ISBN: 9786002762030 [Persian Language]

Many organizations and businesses are using futurology to keep pace with the ever-increasing changes in the world, as the businesses and organizations need to be updated to achieve organizational and business growth and development. A review of the previous studies has shown that no systematic research has been already conducted on the future of in...

Purpose: In order to develop the services of academic libraries and provide new services called Research Data Management (RDM) for helping faculty members and researchers in managing their own research data and benefiting from the research data of others, this article seeks to identify the components of RDM in academic libraries. The outcome can be...

The purpose of this research is to develop and evaluate a scientific information exchange model at digital library on Internet of things. In order to attain the objective, the model’s components are extracted first. This study is a developmental study using mixed method consisting of documentary, focus group, data modeling, and quantitative evalua...

Purpose: To identify factors affecting the use of query suggestions in information search tools and proposing a model. Methodology: The factors were identified through the review of the literature, based on which a self-interaction questionnaire was designed and circulated among 10 experts to determine relationships between the factors. Findings: A...

The emergence of social networks and phenomena such as tagging have led to changes in the structure, language, and content of information. The purpose of this study was to analysis of discourse of digital information organization in social tagging. Discourse analysis by Laclau and Mouffe's was used as a research method. LibraryThing were chosen wit...

Chaos, information uncertainty, and instability are characteristics of the chaotic situation experienced in the Covid-19 pandemic. The health system has been severely damaged under such circumstances. The basic way to deal with this situation is to understand the crisis correctly and accept the chaotic situation. Chaos theory emphasizes solutions t...

Objective: The purpose of this research is to develop and evaluate a scientific information exchange public model at digital library on of Internet of things. In order to attain the objective, first the model,s components are extracted. Methodology: this study is a developmental study using mixed method consisting of documentary, focus group, data...

Nowadays, scientific collaboration has dramatically increased due to web-based technologies, advanced communication systems, and information and scientific databases. The present study aims to provide a predictive model for author collaborations in bioinformatics research output using graph mining techniques and big data applications. The study is...

Abstract: In contemporary world where information is all about human beings, what matters most is the accurate retrieval of information. Information retrieval has always been a human concern, which is why it is constantly undergoing many changes. One of the issues that information retrieval experts have always been thinking about is designing an ef...

In contemporary world where information is all about human beings, what matters most is the accurate retrieval of information. Information retrieval has always been a human concern, which is why it is constantly undergoing many changes. One of the issues that information retrieval experts have always been thinking about is designing an efficient in...

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to identify the intellectual structure of knowledge in the field of knowledge commercialization and the introduction of its subset research fields. This research tries to reveal the intellectual structure of Commercialization of knowledge, using co-word analysis, network analysis, and science visualization t...

This study aims to assess the localization of Schema.org for manuscript description in the Iranian-Islamic information context using documentary and qualitative content analysis. The schema.org introduces schemas for different Web content objects so as to generate structured data. Given that the structure of Schema.org is ontological, the inheritan...

Nowadays, scientific collaboration has dramatically increased as a result of web-based technologies, advanced communication systems, and development of information and scientific databases. The present study aims to provide a predictive model for author collaborations in bioinformatics research output using graph mining techniques and big data appl...

Purpose: To uncover the phenomenon of otherness in assigning subjects to library materials by the Library of Congress. Methodology: 384 titles on the subjects of Islam catalogued between 2016 to 2019 were retrieved from LC’s OPAC and compared with the tags assigned to them by users in the website of LibraryThing. Findings: Average number of subject...

Purpose: To identify factors influencing the future of text information retrieval systems with a forward-looking approach. Methodology: Document analysis and survey are used to identify factors. The research population in the document analysis section consists of literature related to the textual information retrieval field and in the survey sectio...

In this paper, the opinions of bioinformatics experts were sought to examine the knowledge semantic maps. The research question was whether the mapping of bioinformatics field articles could contribute to the reflection of knowledge map in this field; can knowledge within articles be demonstrated through a knowledge map? The research type was appli...

The present study aims to represent the infoecology of bioinformatics, with an emphasis on the topic of relationships between studies in order to provide a scientific framework for infoecological investigations in this field. It was conducted using the co-occurrence analysis of the topic keywords of studies available on the Web of Science (WoS) Dat...

Purpose: Examines the relationship between organizational creativity and information and communication skills of librarians in academic libraries. Methodology: The present study was conducted through an analytical survey among librarians in the province of East Azarbaijan university libraries. Data was collected by a researcher-designed questionnai...

Proper conditions for safe and comfortable work and the lack of inappropriate for factors are important for providing physical and mental health of librarians and improvement of efficiency of libraries. Factors such as lack of education, mental and physical disabilities, and professionals’ ignorance prevent them from observing the ergonomic princip...

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Purpose: To identifying and determining the attributes of the Iranian-Islamic information contexts' manuscripts from the point of information and knowledge organization. Methodology: The research was considered as a developmental-applied research that done content analysis method. The attributes (data) of Iranian-Islamic information context's manus...

The purpose of this conceptual research was to explain the capabilities, semantic platform and view point of Schema.org to processing and organization of web content objects (data entities) by analytical approach. To collect data documentary analysis was used. The research community included texts and researches related to the field of "structured...

The purpose of this study is identifying the influential factors in creating query suggestions. The query suggestion has become one of the most fundamental features of web search engines that help the user formulate the query and meet the information needs by providing possible keywords. In this research, in order to identify the effective factors...

Seyyed Hosseini, Shohreh, Asemi, Asefeh, and Shabani, Ahmad (2019). Basics of Infodemiology in Health Science: Concepts & Functions [In Persian]

Saadat, R. Shabani, A. Asemi, A. And Cheshme Sohrabi, M. (1397). The ability of popular rankings to strengthen the professional knowledge organization systems. Quarterly National Studies on Library and Information Organization. In Press. سعادت، ر. شعبانی، ا. عاصمی، ع. و چشمه سهرابی، م. (1397). قابلیت رده بندی های مردمی در تقویت نظامهای سازماندهی د...

اینفودمیولوژی در پایش الکترونیک سلامت عمومی: ضرورتی اجتناب‌ناپذیر در قرن 21 فصلنامه مدیریت اطلاعات و دانش شناسی انتشار آنلاین از تاریخ 25 شهریور 1397 نوع مقاله: مقاله پژوهشی نویسندگان شهره سیدحسینی 1؛ عاصفه عاصمی2؛ احمد شعبانی3 1دانشگاه علوم پزشکی بوشهر 2دانشیار گروه علم اطلاعات و دانش شناسی دانشگاه اصفهان 3دانشگاه اصفهان چکیده هدف: اپیدمیولوژی اط...

Introduction: Nowadays, social media plays an important role in meeting information needs of individuals, especially students. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of social media in meeting all kinds of information needs based on Norwood's information needs pyramid among the students in Isfahan University of Medical Science...

Introduction/Aim: The evolution of World Wide Web, especially the advent of Web 2 has caused possibilities including folksonomies and the organization of information by users. This article aims to conceptualize the folksonomies, introduce their strengths and weaknesses, and suggest deployment of the strengths to enhance the professional knowledge o...

هدف: شناخت و تعیین میزان برآورده شدن نیازهای اطلاعاتی نوجوانان از کتابخانه های عمومی‌شهر اصفهان بوده است. روش: تعداد328 عضو از میان 9418 نفر اعضای نوجوان به عنوان نمونه به روش نمونه گیری تصادفی طبقه ای و داده ها از طریق پرسشنامه محقق ساخته چند گزینه ای با طیف لیکرت جمع آوری شده است. یافته ها: یافته‌های پژوهش نشان داد که کتاب های کمک درسی مهمترین م...

Introduction: This paper aims to develop a Scientific Information Exchange General Model at Digital Library in Context of Internet of things, which would enable automated and efficient library services. To accomplish its objective, the main classes (Concepts), sub-classes, attributes are identified in order to introduce an appropriate model. Method...

Purpose: Query suggestions are contributive in formulating queries and improving search results on the Web. This tool is used in most search and retrieval systems like the search engines, databases, personal search tools and so on. The factors affecting the use of query suggestions by the users from the perspective of experts are identified. Method...

Soleimanzade Najafi, Nayere Sadat; Asemi, Asefeh; Cheshmeh Sohrabi, Mozafar and Shabani, Ahmad (2019). The Scientific Information Exchange General Model at Digital Library Context: Internet of things. Philosophy Library and Practice. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/2150

The current research examines the relationship between emotional intelligence and meta-cognition with problem solving skills of junior high school students of smart schools and ordinary schools in Isfahan. The study was descriptive and correlative and its statistical population includes 70,741 students at the junior high schools which were smart an...

Purpose: is to materialize the theme here. Methodology: The content analysis method is applied herewith respect to developmental-applied research. The attributes (data) are extracted and adjusted through the Delphi technique and Documentation method. The statistical population consists of 14 experts in the field of manuscripts' studies and the fiel...

Nayere Sadat Soleimanzade Najafi, Asefeh Asemi, Mozafar CheshmehSohrabi, Ahmad Shabani. Scientific articles in "Internet of Things": A bibliometric and co-word analysis in MEDLINE. Payesh. 2018; 17 (5) :507-520 URL: http://payeshjournal.ir/article-1-23-fa.html نیره سادات سلیمانزاده نجفی ، عاصفه عاصمی ، مظفر چشمه سهرابی ، احمد شعبانی . مطالعه کتاب...

Introduction: Cloud computing is an innovative paradigm meeting the user's demand for accessing a shared source comprising adjustable computational sources, such as servers and applied programs. An increase in the costs of information technology, emerging problems with updating software and hardware, and expanded storage volume, make it possible to...

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هدف: تشریح نظریه سطوح یکپارچه و کاربست آن در سازمان دهی دانش و طراحی نظام های بازیابی اطلاعات است. یافته ها: رده بندی سطوح یکپارچه در نظام سازمان دهی دانش براساس موجودیت ها و پدیده ها صورت می گیرد. پدیده های جهان در فرامنای این رده بندی براساس توالی طبیعی سطوح یکپارچه فهرست می شوند؛ در اصطلاحنامه ها نیز می توان علاوه بر روابط اعم، اخص، و همبسته، رو...

Purpose According to the studies conducted in Iran, the breast cancer is the most frequent type of cancer among women. This study explored the state of health information supply and demand on breast cancer among Iranian medical researchers and Iranian web users during 2011 to 2015. Design/methodology/approach A mixed method research (MM) was con...

The purpose of study is evaluation the relationship between emotional intelligence and creativity and job burnout among primary teachers. The statistical population is primary school teachers Lenjan city (Iran) who are working in public schools in 2015-2016. Sample methods are random stratified cluster sampling. To measure of emotional intelligence...

The purpose of this study was to identify the most important historical works written in the field of commercialization of knowledge using Referenced Publication Years Spectroscopy (RPYS). Initial data were obtained from the Web of Science (WoS) database to investigate the historical roots of published works in the field of commercialization of kno...

بیرانوند، علی، شعبانی، احمد، عاصمی، عاصفه و چشمه سهرابی، مظفر. (1396). ساختار دانش در مطالعات مربوط به تجاری‌سازی دانش با استفاده از رویکردهای تحلیل شبکه و مصوّرسازی علم. مطالعات کتابداری و علم اطلاعات. شناسه دیجیتالی:10.22055/slis.2017.24056.1416 http://slis.scu.ac.ir/article_13297.html

Purpose: This research aimed to survey the usage of UNESCO cultural diversity declaration among public librarians of Isfahan province in Iran to find their detailed bonds on each of building blocks of the Declaration and give some recommendation to enhance their commitment to it. Methodology: Survey method was used to reach the aims of research. Th...

Background and Aim: The current study aimed to investigate the state of health information supply and demand on prostate cancer among Iranian medical researchers and Iranian web users during 2011 to 2015. The purpose of this study, based on infodemiology indicators, was to investigate the alignment of health information supply and demand on prostat...

Purpose: this research aimed at the identification of the components and factors affecting the social Prestige of the librarianship through analysis of librarian’s perceptions about their image in the society. Methodology: This research is a case study that carried out with a Qualitative Approach. 27 librarians, that already working in Zanjan provi...

In this research, different parameters of plastic scintillator detector were investigated by Geant4 simulation toolkit. These parameters consisted of radius, length and position of PMT as well as surface reflective type and finish options. Furthermore, response time distributions of two organic plastic materials were studied. The results indicated...

Based on Eysenbach's view, infodemiology can be defined as the science of distribution and determinants of information in an electronic medium, specifically the Internet, or in a population, with the ultimate aim to inform public health and public policy. The current study aimed to investigate the state of health information supply and demand on st...

سید حسینی، شهره، شعبانی، احمد و عاصمی، عاصفه (1396). نظریه زمینه ای در قلمرو علم اطلاعات و دانش شناسی. فصلنامه دانش شناسی (علوم كتابداری و اطلاع رسانی و فناوری اطلاعات). دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد تهران شمال. 10 (37). 31-42. http://qje.iau-tnb.ac.ir/article_535221_01d203ba8c9503ca5a6ece8a58188c9b.pdf

Soleiman Zadeh Najafi, Nayereh; Asemi, Asefeh (Corresponding Author), Cheshmeh Sohrabi, Mozafar; Shabani, Ahmad (2017). Internet of Things Metadata Model for Digital Library. 11th International Conference on e-Commerce in Developing Countries with focus on e-Tourism, e-Service; Health Tourism, ECDC 2017-04-14. Isfahan: University of Isfahan. http:/...

This research aims to study the presence contexts of infodemiology and the introduction and expansion of its framework. Based on Eysenbach's View, infodemiology can be defined as the science of distribution and determinants of information in an electronic medium, specifically the Internet, or in a population, with the ultimate aim to inform public...

Purpose: The present paper aims to investigate factors affecting knowledge-sharing among Fars Province public libraries’ librarians in terms of combination of models Social Exchange and Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and introducing a model of predicting their behavior. Research Methodology: The research is of practical type, and questionnaire h...

Purpose: Explain the theorization in Knowledge and Information Science by utilizes of Lynham general methodology. Method/ Approach: Theorization by Lynham general methodology examined by library research method and analytical kind. Results: Lynham in my methodology are belives two aspect knowldege and experience in special field very important and...

Purpose: The aim of the present study is to examine the feasibility of implementation organizational health in the public libraries under the supervision of Isfahan municipality in 2012-2013 based on Mile's model(1969). Methodology: A survey - descriptive method was used. The population included all the staff at the public libraries of Isfahan (n =...

Objective: To review existing literature on interdisciplinary studies to determine the status of knowledge and information Science among disciplines and interdisciplinary dimensions and answer to the question whether it is possible without having before it a reality called interdisciplinary field of scientific research is to create a sphere or not?...

Patents, one of the important outputs of science and technology, have a tremendous role in wealth creation from knowledge and knowledge-Based economy. Patents are important indicators of determining the rate of a country progress in creativity development. This study, using scientometrics, identifies core inventors and highly cited (hot) inventions...

Background and Aim: The aim of this research was to determine the quantity and quality of qualitative studies accomplished by Knowledge and Information Science (KIS) Researchers. Methods: For this purpose, methodology section of articles published in 13 main Persian Journals in the field of KIS during 2004-2015 had been systematically scrutinized....

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between tendency toward teleworking and organizational commitment (effective commitment, continuance commitment, and normative commitment) among the librarians of Isfahan public universities. Methodology: The research method was descriptive – correlational survey and the populat...

Introduction: Organizational Innovation requires to turns ideas into organizational usable forms and this idea are used to promote organizational performance. The aim of this study was to survey Organizational Innovation (Administrative & Technical) in the Academic Libraries of Shiraz public university (Shiraz University, Shiraz Medical Sciences Un...

In the current study, we have addressed the feasibility of RFID in ALI, Iran on the basis of criteria associated with providing the loan desk services automatically, establishment of automatic security control for the members, inventory control and shelf reading, and applying the required regulations for automatic library management according to th...

Purpose: The aim of study deals to survey and comparison of intellectual capital management in the public and academic libraries of Isfahan in 2012-2013 based on view's Boenits (human capital, structural capital and relational capital). Methodology: A survey - descriptive method was used. The population included all staff at the public libraries of...

Introduction: With regard to the financial, physical and human resources, and limited facilities of organizations, and many recourse are non-renewable, scarce and their reformation requires many years, the productivity of these resources will be of great importance. The aim of this study is to identify and rank the factors affecting knowledge manag...

هدف: شناسايي ديدگاه مديران و كتابداران كتابخانه هاي دانشگاهي اصفهان در مورد امكان استقرار سيستم شناسايي با فركانس راديويي (آر.اف.آي.دي.) در كتابخانه هاي دانشگاهي دولتي شهر اصفهان براساس معيارهاي مربوط به ارائه خدمات ميز امانت به صورت خودكار، برقراري كنترل امنيتي، قفسه خواني و كنترل موجودي، و اِعمال قوانين لازم براي مديريت كتابخانه به صورت مكانيزه...

Objective: The aim of the study was to assess the status of knowledge and skills in the use of references services based on the views' Kovacks (critical thinking, analysis questions, interviewing, organizing information, Find reference resources, and mastery of advanced tools) in terms of views' staff or the Mazandaran public university library. Me...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to analyze barriers to effective implementation of the inter-library loan and document delivery in public libraries at Fars province. Methodology: A questionnaire survey was used to carry out the study. Administrators and librarians of public libraries in Fars province constitute the population of the current stu...

Objective: the aim of this study is to determine the improvement rate of marketing process based on 7P in Libraries of state universities in Isfahan city. Method: This research is a descriptive – survey study. Random stratified sampling method was used and the sample estimated 96 people. To collect data a researcher made questionnaire was used and...

Aim: The present study aims to measure and rank Shiraz universities in implementing knowledge management from librarians' point of view by using ANP-TOPSIS technique. Methodology: This research method is a descriptive-survey and the population included all librarians of Shiraz University, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz University of...

Introduction: Commitment to abstracting standards has a very significant role in information retrieval. The present research aimed to evaluate the rate of Commitment to ISO 214 Standard among the Persian abstracts of approved research projects at School of Health Management and Medical Informatics, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, I...

This research aimed at investigating the application of strategic management components in libraries of Isfahan University, Isfahan University of Technology, and Isfahan University of Medical Sciences and the research method was descriptive survey study. The population consisted of managers and librarians of academic libraries in Isfahan city(134 p...

This research aims to survey the use rate of Marshall criteria into public relations by the librarians of Arak and Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. It was used the survey-descriptive method respectively. In order to gathering the research data, it was used a researcher-made questionnaire; this measured the use rate of 7 Marshall criteria (bu...

Purpose The paper's aim is to study the feasibility of establishing digital document supply services in libraries of research institutes and universities in Isfahan province. Design/methodology/approach The research is of a descriptive survey type. The population under study included librarians working in academic and research institute libraries...

Introduction: Knowledge management as a new subject has created a new approach in facilitating education and research and providing more desirable services. Libraries and information centers in educational environments are the best places for implementing the knowledge management programs to improve education and research and share knowledge. The s...

Since early 1980s, many empirical studies were carried out to recognize stress syndrome and occupational burnout in the United States libraries; the results indicated that the librarians in other countries are susceptible to these two conditions, as well. The present paper investigates the rate of occupational burnout in librarians of University of...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the application rate of post modern management components among managers and librarians in the libraries of Isfahan state universities and the research method was descriptive survey study. The population consisted of 166 managers and librarians in the libraries of Isfahan state universities. Data was gat...

Introduction: Knowledge management is one of the most interesting and challenging issues of management in the new millennium. Educational and research institutions such as libraries and information centers are the most suitable places for the implementation of knowledge management programs. This study aimed to identify and rank the factors affectin...