Ali Mansouri

University of Isfahan · Department of library and Information Science

Purpose: Humanities have a different nature from other sciences, and for this reason, the evaluation of its research outputs needs to be different. By studying the status and evolution of the evaluation components of humanities , it is clear what are its main and secondary topics and what changes it has undergone over time. In this case, the streng...

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...

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...

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...

eyword extraction is one of the most important issues in text processing and analysis and provides a high-level and accurate summary of the text. Therefore, choosing the right method to extract keywords from the text is important. The aim of the present study was to compare the performance of three approaches in discovering and extracting the subje...

The primary purpose of the present study is to determine the life cycle and technology prediction based on patent bibliometric data using Markov hidden model. The study population included 50,915 patent licenses in medical equipment extracted from the US Patent and Trademark Office database from 1976 to 2015. The study findings revealed technology...

Identification of hot topics in research areas has always been of interest. Making smart decisions about what is needed to be studied is always a fundamental factor for researchers and can be challenging for them. The goal of this study is to identify hot topics and thematic trend analysis of articles indexed in Scopus database in the field of Know...

The purpose of this study is to explore the thematic trend analysis of Iranian articles in Library and Information Science based on Topic modeling (LDA) and linear regression model. The population of this study consists of 709 articles indexed in Scopus during 2008-2009. In order to achieve the research objectives, the data were analyzed using text...

Introduction and Purpose- Science and knowledge Production is consequence of research which is the main duty of universities and research centers. There are indicators which determine the differences among countries. Measuring and assessing research results offer suitable techniques for financial and organizational planning. The aim of this study i...

Patents with non-patent literature (NPL) references indicate how the link between science and technology interact. Using topic modeling, this paper investigated the thematic relationship between patents and their cited articles in the field of Nanotechnology. For this purpose, patents in the field of nanotechnology (IPC Class: B82) were obtained fr...

purpose: The purpose of this study is to obtain the opinions and experiences of top researchers about micro and macro factors affecting their success in research. Methodology: The study population included all employed and retired faculty members of the University of Isfahan, 40 of whom were selected based on purposive sampling and snowball method....

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...

Introduction: Social cataloging applications are a new technology which its adoption can affect the scientific, research, applied and commercial fields in many ways. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the factors affecting the acceptance of the mentioned technology by graduate students as a research group, based on the secondary mode...

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...

Introduction: Topic modeling is one of the text mining techniques that allows you to discover unknown topics in a collection of documents, interpret documents based on these topics, and use these interpretations to organize, summarize, and search for texts automatically. Familiarity with the concept and technique of topic modeling, and its applicat...

this study seeks to determine the level of knowledge and skills of PhD students in publishing their resources in scholarly journals and assess the relationship between publishing skills in journals and variables of field, gender, age and also its relationship with the number of articles published in national and international journals. Finally, the...

The public library has a role beyond informing and educating, and understanding its social functions helps to enhance its mission. The purpose of the present study is to identify the components related to the social functions of public libraries that have been investigated in research related to information science and knowledge. The research is of...

The purpose of this research is to investigate the amount of social capital in the institution of public libraries of the country through the analysis of the scientific cooperation network between employees. Methodology of the present study is descriptive-exploratory and using social network analysis, the authorship network of staff of the public l...

The present study examines the factors that affecting the attraction and development of public participation in the field of libraries from donor’s view and practical solutions in order to attract public participation. Investigation of researches generally showed that, popular participation is influenced by individual factors such as age, gender, i...

The article's aim is Analysis of Iranian International Productions in knowledge and Information Science with topic modeling. This research is descriptive and exploratory. The population under study is the International Journal articles of knowledge and Information Science published in the Scopus Database in 2000-2018. First, using text mining with...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the essential components needed to develop a practical mobile application for providing library services to its users. Design/methodology/approach The study was conducted in a descriptive-survey format. The statistical population constituted the libraries worldwide using mobile applications to provide libra...

Objectives: Current research aims to investigate the status and factors associated with the citedness of scholarly outputs by patents in Scopus for the type 1 medical science universities of Iran during 2000-2015. Methodology: The current study is an applied research in terms of objectives while it is a descriptive study in terms of data analysis...

Medicine and its technology are the most important issues in the history of Islamic countries. However, their present condition in Islamic countries is not favorable. The aim of the present research was to assess the development of medical technology in Islamic countries through studying their medical patents in United States Patent and Trademark O...

The aim of the current research is the analysis of patent classes to recognize the subject areas of RFID technology. The research is a descriptive one and uses the clustering and the social network analysis techniques for data analysis. The research population consisted of 35, 627 patents that the term "RFID" or "Radio Frequency Identification" occ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the term Nano in subject categories of patents and to analyze the conceptual relationship between them. The method of this study is based on the study of mathematical models of the disease outbreaks. Population composed of published patents which used the words of “Nano" or "Nanotechnology” in the title or a...

The current research aims at studying the epidemic model of the term RFID within the classes of patents. The research is descriptive and has been conducted based on the mathematical models of diseases. Research population consists of 35,627 granted patents from the USPTO database those which the terms RFID or Radio Frequency Identification occurs i...

The aim of the current research is the analysis of patent classes to recognize the subject area of RFID technology. The research is a descriptive one and uses the clustering and the social network analysis techniques for data analysis. The research population consisted of 35,627 patents that the term “RFID” or “Radio Frequency Identification” occur...

Purpose: To study the importance and impact of patents throughout knowledge flow. Methodology: Using citation analysis, the impact of importance factor in shaping the knowledge flow among Islamic countries patents being recorded during 2005-2014 in the USPTO database was surveyed. Results: The forward-looking measure importance is varying from 0.21...

Purpose: surveying the influence and important of patents in knowledge flow. Method: the impact of “important” factor in shaping the knowledge flow in Islamic countries Patents that registered from 2005 to 2014 in USPATO database was surveyed by using citation analysis. Finding: The important of “forward looking” in research population was variabl...

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...

This research examines the association between co-authorship network centrality (degree, closeness, betweenness, eigenvector, Bonacich flow betweenness) and productivity of Information science researchers. The research population includes all those researchers who have published at least one record in one of the twenty journals of Information Scien...

This study aimed at analyzing the impact and importance of power and electronics patents in technology development. Citation analysis was used as the research method, using the especial formulas of the forward-looking and backwardlooking measures. The research population includes all patents in the field of power and electronics recorded from 1987...

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...

Purpose: The present study aims to examine the KNOWLEDGE FLOW among INVENTORS as presented in . the PATENTS based on geographical distribution indexes.Methodology: Using NETWORK ANALYSIS methodology, this survey tries to give a complete view of KNOWLEDGE FLOW in PATENTS in the fields of Electricity & Electronics as indexed in USPTO Web patent.Findi...

The Emergence of semantic theory of information was accompanied with rapid growth and explosion of information in the first half of the 20th century. Despite the mathematical theory of information that focuses on Shannon's views on information, the semantic theory emphasizes the content of massages in a phenomena. In this theory, the extent of mean...

This research analyses scientific publications of Islamic countries in the “Web of Science” databasedated between 1944 and 2008. In doing so, the extent to which Islamic countries have produced international scientific publications and the number of times they have been cited are studied. The population of this research project consists of 16 Islam...

Purpose – This survey aims to provide an appropriate prototype for the Digital Reference Desk of the National Library of Iran. Design/methodology/approach – Using a content analysis method, 33 digital reference desks of the national libraries around the world which offer their services in English are examined. A checklist was used to gather data b...

The growing number of specialized, scientific journals has made fast, batch identification and retrieval of articles a daunting task for the researchers. Furthermore, the rising cost of journal subscriptions, has deprived many researchers and even small libraries of individual subscriptions. The present research was conducted to assess the importan...

Rapid growth and development of information and communication technologies has revolutionized the reference services by giving rise to a new service: Digital Reference Desk. Given the broad presence of internet and information networks, digital reference desk (DRD) has come to find a special place in libraries. In DRD services, user’s needs are com...