Ali Akbar Khasseh

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• PhD in Library & Information Science
• Professor (Associate) at Payame Noor University

The main objective of this study is to explain how to increase user loyalty behavior to public library services. This study uses a qualitative method based on grounded theory. The research population included users of public libraries in Iran. The data were collected through in-depth interviews, and the theoretical saturation was obtained after int...

Purpose: To identify major events in the development of Reference Services literature. Methodology: Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy (RPYS) technique is used. Initial data was obtained from the Scopus by scientometrics method. A comprehensive search strategy led to the retrieval of 5007 records. RPYS software was used to revise data. Excel a...

Purpose This research aims to examine the intellectual structure of iMetrics through author co-citation analysis. Design/methodology/approach This research uses common techniques in bibliometrics and social network analysis. It analyzes 5944 records from the Web of Science in the field of iMetrics that are published between 1978-2014. Findings...

Influence and capital have been defined as two concepts in the evaluation of scholarly outputs. Scholarly Capital Model is a multidimensional modeling for measuring the scholarly capital and influence. This model deals with the centrality parameters of authors within a Social Network and their h-indices family. The influence and the capital are rep...

Demographic transition theory, as one of the most fundamental theories in demography, describes and explains demographic changes. This article examines the evolution of demographic transition theory and influential works and figures contributing to this evolution using the Referenced Publication Year Spectroscopy (RPYS) method. The data were collec...

The issue of performance evaluation has long been considered as one of the important success factors in various organizations. Therefore, in the current research, the relationship between organizational factors and organizational performance in public libraries of Gilan province has been investigated. The current research is of an applied type with...

Introduction: Knowledge organization is one of the oldest and most fundamental topics in knowledge and information science. Future study is a general human capacity that enables a person to think about the future and examine, model and create future possibilities and show them in front of themselves. Success in identifying driving forces, macrotren...

The study’s objective is to analyze the structure of knowledge organization studies conducted worldwide. This applied research has been conducted with a scientometrics approach using the co-word analysis. The research records consisted of all articles published in the journals of Knowledge Organization and Cataloging & Classification Quarterly and...

Purpose Using science mapping analysis approach and co-word analysis, the present study explores and visualizes research fields and thematic evolution of the coronavirus. Based on this method, one can get a picture of the real content of the themes in the mentioned thematic area and identify the main minor and emerging themes. Design/methodology/a...

Background. Journals are one of the channels of scientific communication among experts in the specialized fields of human knowledge as well as a tools for the rapid and widespread dissemination of new research achievements. It is important for founders of scientific journals to explore if the publications of the journal meet the performance of acad...

Background. Journals are one of the channels of scientific communication among experts in the specialized fields of human knowledge as well as a tool for the rapid and widespread dissemination of new research achievements. Publishers of scientific journals need to match their publications to the level of subjects and researcher collaboration of aca...

Introduction: Knowledge organization is one of the old and basic topics of knowledge and information science. The aim of this study is to conduct a scientific mapping of knowledge organization based on author co-citation analysis. Methodology: The type of research was applied by the citation analysis method. The research records are compiled based...

Blockchain is a distributed and undeniable digital ledger that stores transactions in a chain of high-security blocks. Blockchain solves security and privacy issues in different domains. This study aims to investigate a scientific study on blockchain security and privacy researches in Web of Science database to provide a status view of this area of...

Echinococcus granulosus sensu lato and Echinococcus multilocularis are responsible for serious health and economic implications for humans and animals. This study was designed to conduct a bibliometric analysis of global research on echinococcosis/hydatidosis included in the Web of Science Core Collection databases from 2000 to 2019. A total of 706...

The 21 authors of this study, 19 of whom are non-native English speakers, reflect on the barriers to publishing academic journal articles in top international journals. Each author responded to the same set of questions pertaining to educational (PhD) opportunities for emerging scholars, financial conditions for researchers, and challenges in publi...

Background: Nursing is one of the most important areas of medical sciences whose developments including its scientific publications can influence health care. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate nursing articles published from 2013 to 2018, and to provide a comprehensive view of common topical clusters in this research area. Mater...

Purpose: Knowledge Organizing is one of the oldest and most basic topics in Library and information science Whose main domain is immutable over time; However, the environment in which the organization operates has changed dramatically and will continue to change. Published research often describes only certain aspects that show only a partial pictu...

Background and Aim: One of the essential methods of evaluating academic libraries’ mobile websites is the usability analysis method; websites’ usability means their ease and simplicity of use. This study aims to evaluate the usability of the mobile website of the libraries of top medical universities in Iran. This study aims to evaluate the usabili...

Objective: One of the main aspects of scientific journals is their scientific output, i.e. their published papers. The scientific output of a journal should be evaluated from a scientometric perspective regularly for its development in the field, determining highly-productive and more influential authors, co-authorship patterns, co-word occurrences...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explain the structure of knowledge in the field of knowledge discovery using Co-word Analysis.

Introduction: Applying bibliometric indicators, this study aims at investigating the status of Persian sports medicine research based on the records in the Islamic World Science Citation Database (ISC). Material and Methods: This was a scientometric applied study in which the bibliometric techniques and social network analysis were used in conduct...

This research shows how a rural library (named Fatemeha Library) in Iran can be transformed into a successful one and how it is possible to introduce a prototype for the establishment and development of rural libraries in less developed regions of the world. The study was a qualitative one based on both narrative research and grounded theory. The r...

Purpose: Knowledge Organizing is one of the oldest and most basic topics in Library and information science Whose main domain is immutable over time; However, the environment in which the organization operates has changed dramatically and will continue to change. Published research often describes only certain aspects that show only a partial pictu...

Background: Trichomoniasis is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevalent in different parts of the world. The present study was designed to evaluate the scientific output and collaboration of researchers worldwide on trichomoniasis. Methods: In the present scientometric research, all papers conducted on Trichomonas vaginalis (T. vaginalis) p...

Background This study was designed to analyze the global research on Lophomonas spp. using bibliometric techniques. Methods A bibliometric research was carried out using the Scopus database. The analysis unit was the research articles conducted on Lophomonas spp. Results Totally, 56 articles about Lophomonas spp. were indexed in the Scopus throug...

The purpose of the present research is to present a scientometric analysis of the articles of the Journal of “Sport Management Studies” during the years 2010-2018. . The research population consists of 541 articles published in the the Journal of “Sport Management Studies” that have been indexed in ISC database during the years 2010-2018. To analyz...

The purpose of this research is to map and analyse the conceptual and thematic structure of library and information science (LIS) research from the perspective of the co-word analysis. The bibliographical records consist of all the research papers published in the LIS core journals between 1990 and 2016 and indexed in Web of Science. ‘CiteSpace’ wa...

Background and Objectives: 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 sci...

Introduction: Assessing the quality of mobile websites related to libraries is one of the new topics of study. The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate the quality of the mobile websites of the libraries of the top Iranian universities of medical sciences. Methods: This was an applied research, done by the descriptive-survey method. The s...

Purpose: Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the knowledge map in obstetrics and gynecology research using network analysis and visualization aproaches through co-wordanalysis.Methodology: This applied research has been conducted with a scientomet-rics approach and using the co-word analysis. The study population consisted of 57769 records on...

Abstract Introduction: Applying bibliometric indicators, this study aims at investigating the status of Persian sports medicine research based on the records in the Islamic World Science Citation Database (ISC). Materials and Methods: This was a scientometric applied study in which the bibliometric techniques and social network analysis were used i...

This research concerns determining authors’ scientific influence in library and information science research and their impact on the intellectual structure of the discipline by means of integrative indicators of the Scholarly Capital Model and co-authorship patterns. Research records comprised articles published from 1945 to 2016 in library and inf...

Information anorexia can be defined as lack of or reduced absorption of information, especially information which necessary for everyday life and work. This research tries to investigate the correlation between application of information technology and information anorexia in a higher education setting. This survey was conducted among higher educat...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the status of East Azerbaijan Public Libraries' services to the users with disabilities. The population of the study consisted of 80 managers and supervisors of public libraries in East Azerbaijan province, Iran. A researcher-made questionnaire, inspired by the American Library Association checklist and the...

Background and aim: Today, in scientometrics, the keywords of scientific products are used to evaluate the scientific outputs of different scientific fields. In this research, the keywords of scientific products of Iranian experts in the field of air pollution indexed in international databases were used for content analysis. Materials and methods:...

The purpose of this research is to investigate the social status of Library and Information Science from the point of view of librarians of public libraries in Guilan province, Iran. This research is an applied research and has been conducted through a survey method. The statistical population of the study consisted of 199 librarians working in pub...

This study aims at conducting a meta-analysis on the use of software packages in scientometric-related articles published in Iranian journals. The study consisted of 170 research papers selected based on their credibility within the survey. The articles published from 2013 to 2016 in the field of scientometrics in Iranian journals. Firstly, the ass...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the knowledge structure in Entrepreneurship research using co-word analysis, to identify top authors in the field by number of articles, number of citations, and h-index, and to visualize the international collaboration network in it. Methodology: Social network analysis, citation analysis, and...

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to identify and explain the extra services of libraries affiliated with the public libraries of Kermanshah province and their role in attracting children and adolescents to the library and retaining them in it. Method: In this study, a mixed methods has been used. To collect the research data, a questionnair...

Purpose: Using two scientometric techniques named RPYS and RPYS-Co, this research tries to discover the evolutionary and historical development of research in the field of occupational therapy. Method: The research has been done by scientometric techniques. The research data consists of 7592 articles in the field of therapeutic work. Which are inde...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the intellectual structure of global research in Library and Information Science based on the analysis of the views of Iranian experts. Methodology: In the present study, the semi-structured interview method was used to obtain the views of the Iranian specialized experts, and in order to evaluat...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between factors affecting the performance of libraries and the components of customer relationship management (CRM). Method: The research uses a survey method. The study population was patrons of public libraries in Mazandaran province, Iran. The data collection instrument was q...

Purpose: This research aims to analyze and visualize the structure of Iranian scholarly networks in the field of “pharmacology and pharmacy”. This study includes an overview of co-authorship, efficiency and ranking of the researches, visualizing the co-authorship network, changes in the main core of the publications and macro and micro-level metric...

Purpose: This paper tries to investigate the rejuvenation of the children's section of public libraries in Kermanshah province (Iran) to increase the attraction of the users. Design/methodology/approach: The present study is a survey and has been conducted using cause and effect approach. A structured questionnaire was selected which validity and r...

Aim: Nursing is an important area in medical sciences whose developments can influence health care. One of the development indices in every field or profession is its scientific productions published in international journals. So, this study intends to investigate Iran’s Nursing articles from 2000 to 2016. Methods: This research has been conducted...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze the status of Persian knowledge management research based on the records in the Islamic World Science Citation Database (ISC) during the years 2008 to 2017. Methodology: This is a scientometric applied research. Bibliometric techniques and social network analysis are used in conducting this research....

Introduction: Since chronic heart failure is considered as one of the main causes of death around the world, it is necessary to map the intellectual structure of studies in this area. This study attempted to map the knowledge structure of chronic heart failure using document co-citation analysis. Methods: Bibliometric methodology and social networ...

Using a co-word analysis, this study aims to mapping the intellectual structure of Iran KIS (Knowledge and Information Science) in Islamic World Science Citation Database (ISC) during two 5-year periods from 2006 to 2015. This is an applied scientometric research which uses co-word analysis. The research population consists of 2467 articles which h...

Purpose: To identify the patterns and trends of the Iranian LIS Studies and the changes made in the Intellectual structure of this field. Methodology: Using the keyword co-occurrence method and the knowledge Domain Visualization approach, the intellectual structure of LIS has been studied. The research community is all research papers and articles...

Using an altmetric study, this paper tries to investigate the visibility and activities of Iranian Library and Information Science (LIS) departments in ResearchGate. The research community of this study consisted of faculty members of LIS departments in Iran. Research data were analyzed by Altmetrics indicators from ResearchGate and then it is anal...

Aim: This study was designed to evaluate the network productions and research collaborations on toxoplasmosis worldwide. Materials and Methods: A bibliometric research was carried out using the Web of Science (WOS) database. The analysis unit was the original research articles about toxoplasmosis published between 2000 and 2016 (17 years). Results:...

Background and Aim: Scientometric studies are one of the most effective methods of scientific evaluation in databases. The aim of this study was to investigate Breast cancer in Iran from 2000-2016. Materials and Methods: This study has an applied approach and was conducted using scientometric indices. The statistical population was the indexed arti...

Purpose: This study aims to identify and compare thematic trends of concepts in Knowledge and Information Science based on the records indexed in the Islamic World Science Citation Database (ISC) during two-time span (2006-2010 and 2011-2015). Methodology: This study is a scientometric applied research which uses co-word analysis techniques. The re...

By using co-word analysis, knowledge structure can be determined in a research field and its topical clusters can be identified. This research tries to study knowledge structure in mystical researches via this method and by using network analysis approaches and science visualization. The population of the current study is comprised of 1931 publishe...

Purpose: Conducting a scientometrics study on Iran’s research in Computer Science in an international arena exposes an exact picture of its situation. The purpose of this study is an investigation of Iran’s global situation in Computer Science using scientometric techniques. Methodology: Bibliometric methodology and social network analysis are use...

Scientometrics studies, dealing with professional evaluation of scientific researches, cover many dynamic aspects of science. Analyzing mystical researches, using scientometric methods not only determine the status of co-authorship networks of mystical researchers, but also show the quantitative growth of them as well as top authors of this field i...

Purpose: Nowadays, the digital libraries’ web sites act as a new communication bridge between libraries and users. This study aimed to assess the structure and content of the Payame Noor University’s digital library website and determine its strengths and weaknesses in comparison with the digital libraries of the top universities in Iran. Methodolo...

Among the prevalent topics in Knowledge and Information Science, the scientometrics studies are of special interest. Applying co-citation analysis, this study investigated the landscape of research in scientometrics and related metric areas and revealed the fundamental themes of it. The initial data of this study (including scientometrics-related d...

Purpose: Using a co-word analysis, this study tries to map the intellectual structure of Quran and Hadith Studies in Iran based on the records in the Islamic World Science Citation Database (ISC) during the years 2006 to 2015. Methods: This is a scientometric applied research which uses co-word analysis. The research population consists of 3638 art...

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the relationship between social influence with productivity and performance of researchers in Quran and Hadith Studies. Methodology: This research uses scientometrics’ prevalent techniques, such as co-authorship and network analysis. Quran and Hadith Studies indexed in Islamic World Science Citation Center (I...

The aim of the current paper is to analyze and study the position of Quranic researches in universal science production by applying science measurement techniques. Statistical population is made of the Quranic studies which figured out during 20 years in ISI (Thomson Reuters) Web of Science. The findings show prove that in the abovementioned durati...

Background Leishmaniasis is an extremely relevant tropical disease, with global distribution. It still remains a main public health concern in low-income countries, and it is necessary to support more research on this common disease. Thus, a bibliometric analysis of the global scientific production on leishmaniasis was carried out. Methods All the...

Purpose: Using a quantitative method named "Referenced Publication Year Spectroscopy" (RPYS), this research tries to determine the historical roots of semantic web research. RPYS pave the way for determining the significant years and works in semantic web. Methodology: The initial data of this study, which uses a scientometric method, have been ex...

From the organizational perspective, the concept of creativity can be thought of as a new design for improving and enhancing the quantity or quality of activities. Few studies have been conducted on the employee organizational creativity and its relationship with information literacy standards (which is one of the essential requirements for creativ...

Purpose: Using a co-word analysis, this study aims to identify and compare thematic trends of concepts of Knowledge and Information Science in Iran. Methods: This study sues co-word analysis techniques. The study population consists of all Persian journals in Knowledge and Information Science category indexed by ISC. Findings:. The application of...

This study, using a new method called Referenced Publication Years Spectroscopy (RPYS), examines the most important historic works written in the area of research methodology. Preliminary data of this study have been extracted from Web ob Science database through scientomerics methods. For this purpose, the references used in all the papers in the...

This study, using a new method called Referenced Publication Years Spectroscopy (RPYS), examines the most important historic works written in the area of research methodology. Preliminary data of this study have been extracted from Web ob Science database through scientomerics methods. For this purpose, the references used in all the papers in the...

Using a combination of bibliometrics and social network analysis methods, co-authorship network of iMetrics was studied in the time spam of 1978-2014 and top researches in the field were identified. Then, the relationship between these researchers’ productivity, performance, and centrality indicators was investigated. Out of 5944 studied records, r...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the top researchers in information behaviour (IB) based on ideational and social influence indicators. Design/methodology/approach The population included papers on IB indexed in the Web of Science from 1980 to 2015. UCINET and Bibexcel were the tools used for measuring the ideational and social inf...

چکیده مقدمه: کتابخانه تخصصی علوم قرآن و حدیث آستان‌قدس‌رضوی به‌عنوان مرکزی معتبر برای تأمین اطلاعات تخصصی پژوهشگران، از اهمیت ویژه‌ای برخوردار است. ارزشیابی کیفیت خدمات و آگاهی از دیدگاه کاربران کتابخانه می‏تواند مدیران را در اصلاح، بهبود و ارائه خدمات باکیفیت‌تر یاری دهد. هدف: هدف پژوهش حاضر، ارزیابی کیفیت خدمات کتابخانه تخصصی علوم قرآن‌وحدیث آستا...

Mapping Intellectual Structure of Rural Geography Research: Using Co-Word Analysis and Science Visualization Abstract Background: The intellectual structure of knowledge and its research front can be identified by co-word analysis. This research tries to reveal the intellectual structure of rural studies in Human Geography, using co-word analysis,...

Among the topics studied in the context of scientometrics, the issue of the scholarly influence is of special interest. This study tries to test the components in the scholarly influence model based on iMetrics studies, and also to find potential relations among these components. The study uses a bibliometric methodology. Since the researchers aim...

Abstract Background and Aim: The intellectual structure of knowledge and its research front can be identified by co-word analysis. This research attempts to reveal the intellectual structure of knowledge in information behavior inquiries, via co-word, network analysis, and science visualization tools. Methods: Bibliometric methodology and social ne...

Purpose This study, using a new method called Referenced Publication Years Spectroscopy (RPYS), aims to examine the most important historic works written in the area of knowledge management (KM). Design/methodology/approach Preliminary data of this study have been extracted from Web of Science through scientometric methods. The references used i...

Background In the scientometric, the main criterion in determining the scientific position and ranking of the scientific centers, particularly the universities, is the rate of scientific production and innovation, and in all participations in the global scientific development. One of the subjects more involved in repeatedly dealt with science and t...

Background and Aim: The use of bibliometric methods identify the best researchers in various fields on the one hand, and scientific mapping of specific disciplines on the other hand at the international level has become popular gradually. The aim of the present study was to determine top researchers in the field of parasitology based on centrality...

Background and Aim: The use of bibliometric methods identify the best researchers in various fields on the one hand, and scientific mapping of specific disciplines on the other hand at the international level has become popular gradually. The aim of the present study was to determine top researchers in the field of parasitology based on centrality...

To meet their informationa needs, people use different tools and technologies which are called the individuals' information grounds. However, the literature on information grounds is limited to the United States; and there is no research comparing the information grounds of students in Iran so far. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to ana...

Among the prevalent topics in Knowledge and Information Science, the science metric studies are of special interest. This research aims to examine the knowledge structure in science metric studies based on author co-citation analysis, co-word analysis, co-authorship network analysis, and scholarly influence model. Bibliometric methodology and socia...

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the contextual conditions of creativity based on Oldham Model among the librarians of public libraries of Fars province. Design/methodology/approach: The research uses a survey method. The study population was librarians of public libraries in Fars province. The data collection instrument was questionnaire. F...

Using a quantitative method named reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS), this research tried to determine the historical roots of information behavior research. RPYS pave the way for determining the significant years and works in information behavior. Using scientometrics method, the initial data of this study have been extracted from the...

This study aims to investigate factors affecting knowledge sharing among librarians working in public libraries of Fars Province, Iran. The research uses a survey method. Using stratified random sampling technique, 180 librarians were selected as a sample. The data collection instrument is a questionnaire with an acceptable reliability. Data analys...

This survey examines the familiarity of students at Virtual University of Shiraz (VUS), as a first virtual institution in Iran, with the concept and importance of digital libraries. To do this research, a descriptive and survey methodology was used. Students of Virtual University of Shiraz in comprise the population of the study. Findings showed th...

Purpose: Using both ideational and social influences’ indicators, this study tries to identify and analyze the most influential researchers in iMetrics. To do so, the researchers used a combination of H family indexes (h-index, g-index, and contemporary h-index) and co-authorship centralities (degree, betweenness, and closeness) for calculating ide...