Citation Analysis of Articles Published by the Engineering Research Institute of Ministry of Jihad Keshavarzi

Purpose: Using citation analysis of articles published by researchers of the Engineering Research Institute (1991-2005), the current papers examines information seeking behavior of researchers. . Methodology: For this reason, 3642 citations were extracted from 547 articles published by the research...

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Main Authors: Fatemeh Tasviri Ghamsari, Mohammad Reza Jahan Nama
Format: Article
Language:fas
Published: University of Tehran 2008-09-01
Series:تحقیقات کتابداری و اطلاع‌رسانی دانشگاهی
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Online Access:https://jlib.ut.ac.ir/article_21164_10a4ca05aa212f04fbdc9001ac545675.pdf
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Summary:Purpose: Using citation analysis of articles published by researchers of the Engineering Research Institute (1991-2005), the current papers examines information seeking behavior of researchers. . Methodology: For this reason, 3642 citations were extracted from 547 articles published by the researchers Applying Bradford's Law of Scattering to the cited periodicals, the most used periodicals were identified. Findings: Results showed that the highest rate of citation was 45.5% belonging to periodicals. About 90.5 percent of citations were in English. Patents with 16/5 years and electronic resources with 2.1 years had the highest and the lowest half-life respectively.
ISSN:2783-4638