Information Management
MohammadAmin Erfanmanesh; Elaheh Hosseini
Volume 4, Issue 1 , May 2017, , Pages 31-40
Abstract
Purpose: The present research aims to study the quality of international research outputs of the University of Isfahan using various indicators for the last ten years. In addition, it investigates whether the quality of these output has been increased along with their quantity by comparing with the country's ...
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Purpose: The present research aims to study the quality of international research outputs of the University of Isfahan using various indicators for the last ten years. In addition, it investigates whether the quality of these output has been increased along with their quantity by comparing with the country's average. Methodology: The present study is an applied research using scientometric indicators. The research population consisted of 5806 papers with at least one author affiliated with the University of Isfahan, published during 2006-2015 and indexed in Scopus Moreover, Scopus and civil were used for data collection. Findings: Findings showed that quality performance of the University of Isfahan in a production of research outputs in metrics of “citedness rate”, “international scientific collaboration” and “publication in high-quality journals” was higher than the country’s average. Conversely, the quality of the University of Isfahan’s scholarly output based on “citations per publication”, “views per publication”, “field-weighted citation impact” and “highly-cited papers” was less than the country's average. Conclusion: The results of the research might be useful by the managers and policy makers of the University of Isfahan to be aware of the current level and future plans in order to improve the quality of research output of the university.
