Rahman Marefat

Semnan University · Department of Information Science and Knowledge studies, Semnan University

Authors’ collaboration in producing scientific articles is a common relation between scientific people in which article production is easily shared between collaborators. This article determines the authors’ collaboration in The Journal of Advanced Periodontology & Implant Dentistry (JAPID) for 2009 to 2020. The Scientometric method was used in thi...

Visualizing the scientific outputs in the field of nonlinear analysis (NA) and Mapping the co-author network of researchers in the Web of Science database (WOS) were the main purpose of this research based on scientometric methods. The rate of authors, source titles, Countries/Regions, research area and organizations in NA filed at WOS during 1985-...

The present case study aimed at developing a micro-model of the factors effective in developing online information literacy skills in an educational context. A sequential mixed-methods approach (qualitative-quantitative) was used as the research design. Initially, a conceptual model was developed using both the contextual participatory method and i...

Every year, universities spend a large sum of money on databases and library sources to help with education and research. The main aim is to determine the sources of information utilized by the psychology students at Semnan University to address their information needs. This study is applied research and uses grounded theory to reveal the viewpoint...

In this article, we determine authors' collaboration in The International Journal of Nonlinear Analysis and Applications (IJNAA) for the period of 2010 to 2018. The findings of this survey has shown that a total of 295 articles by 624 people were published. The average number of authors per article was 2.1. The result also denotes that according to...

The emergence of the Internet and new technologies along with their challenges, have caused more attention to new and special aspects of ethics. This is an interview with Rafael Capurro on information ethics and Internet research ethics. This interview is given on the occasion of an invitation from Prof. Jafar Mehrad to visit the Islamic World Scie...

Introduction: Scientific communication among researchers has an important role in scientific fields. Some reasons for this communication are: efficient scientific exchanges among researchers, increasing collaborative article quality, using of cooperator authors specialists, increasing probability collaborative article publishing in scientific journ...

Collaboration in research and production of scientific publications is common in all academic areas. The Importance of collaboration in the production of scientific publications in today's complex world where in the age of technology is very apparent. Most of Scientists have realized that in order to get their work wildly used and cited by other ex...