Study on Scientific outputs of Scholars in the Field of Digital Libraries Using Altmetrics Indicators

The current study aims to calculate the relationship between Altmetric scores obtained from the observation and dissemination of digital library resources in the Dimensions database and the number of citations received in the Scopus database. Also, in another part of the research, the predictive power of the number of Scopus citations by Altmetric scores is examined. The present research is applied in terms of purpose and survey-descriptive in terms of type, which is done by the scientometric method and with an Altmetric approach. The statistical population of the study includes all articles in the field of digital libraries (24183 records) that are indexed in the Scopus citation database during 1960-2020. Dimensions database has been used to evaluate the Altmetric scores obtained from these articles on social networks. Due to the limited access to the required data in the Scopus database, 2000 highly cited articles in the field of digital libraries in this Scopus database were studied through the Dimensions database. The data collection tools are Scopus Citation Database and Dimensions Database. The required data is collected through the Scopus database. In this study, the studied indicators from the Dimensions database appear as the independent variable of the research. The dependent variables in this study are the number of citations to articles in the Scopus database. Correlation tests and multiple regression between the studied indices are used to examine the relationships between variables and perform statistical tests. The software used is Excel and SPSS version 23. The present study results show that the social networks Patent, Facebook, Wikipedia, and Twitter have the highest correlation with the number of citations in the Dimensions database. The social networks Blog, Google User, and Q&A do not significantly relate to the number of citations received in Dimensions. Patent social networks, Wikipedia, and Twitter have the highest correlation with the number of Scopus citations. In this case, the social networks of Blog, Google User, Pulse Source and Q&A do not significantly correlate with the number of citations received. Among the citation databases studied, Mendeley has the highest correlation between the numbers of citations. Other results indicate that the publication and viewing of documents on social networks cannot predict the number of citations in the Dimensions and Scopus databases.https://dorl.net/dor/20.1001.1.20088302.2022.20.4.10.

A Comparative Study on the Marketing Status of Library Services in Iran: A Case Study

Purpose: The purpose of this research was to conduct a comparative study on the marketing status of library services of libraries in Qom Payame Noor University (PNU) and Qom University (QU) based on the 7P model in 2018. Methodology: This research is an applied, a cross-sectional and comparative study. The population of this research includes 77 senior students studying “library science” in QU and Qom PNU. The data collection instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire which was designed based on the capabilities of the studied libraries and its validity was confirmed by five professors and experts. Reliability of the questionnaire was obtained based on Cronbach’s alpha coefficient (0.83). SPSS®-20 and descriptive statistics such as central and sparseness indexes and inferential statistics (Chi-square, independent t-test, and Mann-Whitney test) were used to analyze data. Findings: Mean value obtained for the components of individuals, physical evidence, promotion, and the process in libraries of PNU was significantly higher than that of QU. Only in price component, libraries of QU were significantly higher than PNU. No significant difference was observed between the product and place components in the studied libraries of these two universities. Conclusion: The results show that the product component at QU, the component of physical evidence, promotion at PNU is not in the desirable situation and require attention and promotion for a better marketing

Survey relationship between emotional intelligence and coping strategies to stress in nurses

مقدمه: پرستاری حرفه ایی، پر استرس است. درک نحوه مقابله با استرس، در مدیریت استرس مهم است، لذا این مطالعه با هدف تعیین رابطه هوش هیجانی و سبکهای مقابله با استرس در پرستاران انجام شد. روش کار: این مطالعه تحلیلی، از نوع مقطعی بود. نمونه های مورد پژوهش آن 90 نفر از پرستاران شاغل در بیمارستانهای آموزشی دانشگاه علوم پزشکی جندی شاپور اهواز بودند. نمونه گیری به روش چند مرحله ای و با استفاده از پرسشنامه های هوش هیجانی بار- ان و سبکهای مقابله با استرس اندلر – پارکر انجام شد. تحلیل داده ها با استفاده از نرم افزار SPSS و آمار توصیفی و ضریب همبستگی پیرسون، آزمون تی مستقل و آنالیز واریانس یک طرفه انجام شد. یافته ها: در رویارویی با استرس 5/74 از نمونه ها، از سبک مسئله مدار استفاده کرده بودند. افراد با سن و سابقه کار کمتر، نمره هوش هیجانی بیشتری داشتند، این اختلاف از نظر آماری معنی دار بود(05/0p<). ضریب همبستگی پیرسون بیانگر ارتباط مثبت(628/0=r) و معنی داری، بین هوش هیجانی با سبک مسئله مدار بود،(001/0p<). همچنین ضریب همبستگی پیرسون بیانگر رابطه منفی(411/0- =r) و معنی دار، بین هوش هیجانی و سبک هیجان مدار بود(001/0p<). بین هوش هیجانی و استفاده از سبک اجتناب مدار در مقابله با استرس، ضریب همبستگی پیرسون ارتباط معنی داری را نشان نداد(778/0p<). نتیجه گیری: هوش هیجانی با سبک های مقابله با استرس در پرستاران در ارتباط است و مسئولین آموزش مداوم می توانند تقویت سبک مساله مدار هوش هیجانی در پرستاران را، در دستور کار خود قرار دهند

Effective Factors on Knowledge Commercialization in Payam-e-Noor University

Commercialization of research results refers to a set of efforts aimed at raising capital and increasing the relationship between the academic and research sector and economic and social sector. The present study intends to identify and rank the factors affecting the commercialization process of research results at Payam-e-Noor University in order to determine the extent of influence of the identified factors. Therefore, this is an applied research in terms of purpose, which studies the factors affecting the process of knowledge commercialization in previous studies, using the confirmatory factor analysis approach. Using fuzzy hierarchical analysis, it was determined that legal, economic, manpower, cultural, structural and political, and communicational and information-related barriers are the first to sixth barriers to the knowledge commercialization in Payam-e-Noor University. Using fuzzy DEMATEL technique, the effectiveness and affectability of factors involved in the process of knowledge commercialization were identified. Accordingly, weak legal framework for supporting idea people at the university, inefficiency and ineffectiveness of the rules and regulations for commercialization, lack of regulation for the apportionment of financial gain from commercialization among scholars, lack of skilled and expert human resources in the universities, lack of facilities and financial resources for research commercialization, and lack of mutual recognition between university and industry had the most affectability. In other words, these are the dependent/outcome variables of the model. On the other hand, inadequate knowledge of the faculty members, poor fund management in the university, weakness of universities in wealth creation, absence of university entrepreneurial missions, the absence of up-to-date and effective idea banks and databases in the universities, and lack of effective communication between students and industry sector’s activists had the most effectiveness. In other words, these variables are the independent/causal variables of the model

Examining the Factors Influencing Technology Integration in the Teaching-Learning Process: A Case Study

The present research aims to investigate the impact of the factors of technology-integrated attitude (TIA), computer self-efficacy (CSE), technological knowledge (TK), task-technology fit (TTF), teaching experience (TE) and technological pedagogical knowledge (TPK) on technology-integrated intention (TII) and provide a causal model tailored to the impact of these factors on TII in the teaching-learning process (TLP). The research is applied, and in terms of data acquisition method and data analysis, it is a descriptive, correlational research. The research was conducted among 370 high school teachers in Shiraz in 2017-2018. The questionnaire was used for the data acquisition. The path analysis method was used to analyze the research hypotheses. The results show that the variables of TK and CSE directly and indirectly, attitude toward integration and TTF directly and TPK indirectly had a significant impact on TII in the TLP. The highest impact is related to CSE and the lowest total impact to TK on TII in the TLP

Analyzing the Effect of Delighting Services on the Loyalty of Public Library Users: A Case Study

Purpose: This study seeks to investigate the effect of delighting services on the loyalty of public library users. Methodology: This is a survey study and its statistical population consists of the users of public libraries in Mashhad. The integrated model is used in this study and the structural equations related to the indicators in the research model are investigated. The goodness of research model fitting suggests the special place of the delighting service and its effect on the components of trust, commitment, satisfaction, and loyalty of users. Findings: Furthermore, the finding\u27s show that the delighting services affect commitment, satisfaction and, consequently, the loyalty of user. If library services are delighting, then the trust of users will be gained and the users will feel committed to the library; therefore, their satisfaction will ultimately result in their loyalty to the library

Workplace violence against nurses working in Khorramabad educational hospitals and their Confronting behaviors in violent events

Background & Aims: Workplace violence is considered as a health problem in nursing profession. The aim of this study was to determine nurses behavior meeting to workplace violence and their confronting reactions in violent events. Materials & Methods: This descriptive-cross-sectional study was conducted on all of nursing staffs of Khorramabad educational hospital in 2011. A questionnaire containing, personal and occupational characteristics, prevalence of four types of occupational violence (Physical, Verbal, Racial and sexual), nurses confronting behavior and violence predisposing factors was used. After collecting, the data were analyzed using descriptive statistics including mean and frequencies by SPSSversion16. Results: Analysis of the data showed that the most frequent type of violence against nurses was verbal violence committed by patient and their relatives (%78.5), managers (%46.2) and staffs (%43.1) respectively. The least frequent type of workplace violence was the sexual one. Most of the nurses' confronting violent behavior was calling hospital guard, and most of the nurses’ confronting behavior was ineffective. Conclusion: The result showed high prevalence of violence against nursing staffs, and the use of ineffective confronting behavior by nurses. Therefore it is necessary to develop educational program to empower the nursing staff against violent events

The Impact of the Activity of Industrial Engineering Researchers in Various Scientific-Citation Networks on Improving their Scientific Authority Status

This study analyzes the link between Mendeley indexes of scientific-citation networks and Scopus, taking into account the beneficial influence of researchers' actions in social networks on scientometric indices of works indexed in databases like Google scholar and WoS. In this basic/descriptive study, we use the Altmetrics approach to describe Iranian researchers’ activities in industrial engineering in scientific-citation networks. In this study, researchers whose activities are recorded with Iranian affiliation in scientific-citation networks have been briefly named Iranian researchers. The corpus of the study included the works of 160 Iranian researchers in the field of industrial engineering, indexed in the Scopus in the period 2000-2019. To test the likely correlation between the measures of social networks (SN) activities with scientometric ones, simple and multiple correlation tests were carried out by Excel and SPSS software. The correlation between the number of times a document was read, the number of citations, and the measures in the Mendeley, Scopus, We of Science (WoS), and Google Scholar (GS) was very high. However, the correlation between the number of readers in the Mendeley and co-authorship in Scopus was low. There was a strong correlation between the number of citations in Mendeley and that in other databases. The correlation between the authors' H-index in the Mendeley database and other databases is positive and significant, stronger in Scopus and WoS than Google Scholar. It was finally concluded that researchers’ activities in social networks attract more readers, increase the number of citations and thus increase the H-index score in databases. Therefore, they need to be more active in social networks to increase their H-index score and promote academic publications.https://dorl.net/dor/ 20.1001.1.20088302.2022.20.1.14.