Abstract The current study will review and analyze the quality of scientific products in social sciences at Payame Noor University based on scientometric and Altmetrics indicators in Dimensions and Scopus from the years 2010 to 2020. This descriptive survey study was conducted with scientometric and Altmetrisc approaches. For data gathering, Scopus, Scival, and Dimensions were used. The current study results showed... The current study will review and analyze the quality of scientific products in social sciences at Payame Noor University based on scientometric and Altmetrics indicators in Dimensions and Scopus from the years 2010 to 2020. This descriptive survey study was conducted with scientometric and Altmetrisc approaches. For data gathering, Scopus, Scival, and Dimensions were used. The current study results showed that the rate of science production of Payame Noor University scholars in the field of Social Sciences is meager and needs to change policies and create incentives for science production in this field. In the area of science production and scientific leadership, this study showed that the rate of science production of researchers at this university is meager compared to national statistics in the field of social sciences and needs to change policies and create incentives for science production in this sector. Regarding the relationship between Altmetrics indices based on the results of this study and the findings presented in the previous section, we still see uncertainty in the relationship between these two measuring instruments of science. Read More Read Less

Abstract Background and Objectives: social networks as one of the essential communication tools with their capabilities and facilities affect various aspects of scientific activities. social networks are based on interaction, collaboration, and partnership. Although the vast majority of these networks are used for entertainment purposes, other aspects of their functions are currently of great interest. (Mastromatteo, 2010). some networks have become... Background and Objectives: social networks as one of the essential communication tools with their capabilities and facilities affect various aspects of scientific activities. social networks are based on interaction, collaboration, and partnership. Although the vast majority of these networks are used for entertainment purposes, other aspects of their functions are currently of great interest. (Mastromatteo, 2010). some networks have become specific and have been created for particular purposes (scientific, recreational, etc.), for example, ResearchGate and Academia, which have been set up to share and collaborate scientific information among researchers. According to Ponte & Simon (2011), a third of professionals and researchers use scientific, social networks. The growing trend towards these networks is tangible among them. But the extent to which Iranian researchers keep up to date with new Communication technologies and use them only to interact with scientific issues is a challenge that is always raised due to changes in the digital world. On the other hand, there is evidence that the membership of researchers affiliated with research organizations in scientific and social networks and the sharing of articles or links related to their access increases the number of visits to the websites of relevant organizations. In some cases, the percentage of evaluation of such articles through search engines has increased) Kelly & Delasalle, 2012). Therefore, in this study, we try to determine the presence and activity of Iranian researchers in the research gate and the relationship between obtaining citations in Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and Altmetrics indicators from the research gate. Read More Read Less

Abstract The current study focused on the last two decades’ research articles related to Pandemic Diseases (PDs). The extensive citation database, Web of Science (WoS), is used to obtain bibliographic data from 2000 to 2019. We identified 7,089 publication records retrieved from the WoS database for this present study. During the study, the growth in pandemicrelated literature has grown steadily from... The current study focused on the last two decades’ research articles related to Pandemic Diseases (PDs). The extensive citation database, Web of Science (WoS), is used to obtain bibliographic data from 2000 to 2019. We identified 7,089 publication records retrieved from the WoS database for this present study. During the study, the growth in pandemicrelated literature has grown steadily from 2000 to 2011, and in another tenure, we found a fluctuation in the publications. The Pandemic Disease research focused on highly co-cited documents and their sourced journals. However, the most remarkable documents in Pandemic Disease research have originated from the USA, England, and People R China. In addition, PDs research also focuses on the WOS subject categories of Infectious Diseases; immunology and Virology are the most remarkable disciplines. Influenza, infection, and pandemic Influenza got the highest frequency, but in terms of citation bursts in Hong Kong, Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Seasonal Influenza are trending in recent years. Read More Read Less

Abstract Since the inception of social media, entire human society has dramatically changed. Nowadays, social media has become an essential component of human society. Researchers or academicians are no exceptions. Social media has opened up new possibilities for researchers and academicians to evaluate scientific research based on social media data. In this response, altmetric is introduced as an emerging research area... Since the inception of social media, entire human society has dramatically changed. Nowadays, social media has become an essential component of human society. Researchers or academicians are no exceptions. Social media has opened up new possibilities for researchers and academicians to evaluate scientific research based on social media data. In this response, altmetric is introduced as an emerging research area in scientometrics, where social media data is applied as source data for the evaluation of scientific research. The sufficient presence of altmetric data across scholarly publications is a prerequisite for developing new metrics in practice. This article aimed to investigate the presence of altmetric data in Indian scholarly publications compared to the world data. It has also explored the relationship among altmetric events (individual or aggregated) with citation scores. The result indicates that around 32.70% of Indian EPS articles are covered in social media, while 35.75% of research articles present at least one altmetric event for world data. The presence of altmetric events is still meager, except for Mendeley. A strong positive correlation is observed between citations and readership in Mendeley. Read More Read Less