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Minutes of educational councils in universities always contain valuable organizational knowledge and play an important role in micro and macro educational decision makings. Lack of storage system, organization and retrieval of these documents can be a major obstacle in the way of utilizing these precious documents. Designing and implementing of an appropriate software to manage minutes of educational councils can facilitate classifying these important documents and ease the access and visibility of their content as well. Therefore based on the structure and the content of educational council minutes of one school of medical sciences universities as a sample and the views of key stakeholders, researchers tried to design and implement a software for information and decisions management of minutes. This research is of developmental- applied type. In order to design the software, object-oriented analysis is used. In the analysis step, at first requirements are identified, extracted and defined based on the descriptive cataloging and subject analyzing of educational councils minutes and after final analysis, the required diagrams were drawn. Software architecture is determined based on the list of requirements and finally the drawn diagrams are converted to programming codes using C# programming language. In the end, the produced software has been tested to ensure its adaptation to the objectives of project and the defined requirements. In this study, it was tried that the designed software leads to the development of electronic database for minutes in order that the universities could have access to content and decisions of these meetings in due time and in appropriate manner. Despite the numerous capabilities of this software, it seems necessary that it be used more widely in order that we could review its improvement and optimization during its implementation in the actual operating environment. Subsequently, it is recommended that Universities of Medical Sciences use the software for information management and their educational meetings to facilitate the process of organizing, storing and retrieving of the documents. They can also contribute to the process of software upgrade for educational meetings in other universities
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The present research is an attempt to describe the quantity and quality of publication trends of media literacy based on Scopus reports. The population under study was composed of 510 documents on media literacy published through 2011. The results were analyzed based on date of publication, type of document, language of the documents, source of publications, subject areas, authors and their affiliations, and the countries involved in developing the articles. Citation indicators formed the second phase of investigation in the present study. With a negligible amount of fluctuation, the number of publications on media literacy has increased steadily over the years, with the greatest number occurring in 2011. The analysis of data based on document types indicated that, of the 510 documents, 330 were articles [64.70%], 85 were reviews [16.66%], and 64 were conference papers [12.54%]. 446 documents [84.45%] were published in English and the rest presented in other languages. The United States with 190 documents [37.25%], the United Kingdom with 43 documents [8.43%], and Australia with 14 documents [2.74%] were the most represented countries, with the most prolific authors known as Austin, Hobbs, and Cheung. Thematically, the greatest number of documents were produced in Social Sciences with 360 documents [70.57%], followed by Medicine with 92 documents [18.03%]. The largest number of documents has been published in Comunicar followed by American Behavioral Scientist, and Simile. The most cited articles from 1996 up to 2011 included 22 documents on the H-index zone. Analysis of the results of H-index zone by subject categories indicated that most documents on h-index zone belonged to social sciences and Medicine areas. Psychology had the most influence on media literacy, as was shown by the ratio of most cited documents to total number of documents on media literacy in any of the subject categories. The results highlight the multidisciplinary nature of media literacy. As for the H-index zone, 16 documents [73.91%] belonged to the United States. Overall, the United States, with 190 [37.25%] publications [out of a total of 510], had an important role in enhancing the quantity and quality of the media literacy literature
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Investigation of the web impact factor and analysis of the web links belong to webometric studies. A high impact factor, accompanied by more frequent links to a particular website, can indicate greater influence and better accessibility of that particular site. In this regard, bearing in mind the significance of medical universities' web sites for education and research, the current study compared and analyzed their impact factors, their web links and web pages, using AltaVista search engine. The investigation included different ranks of medical universities, commonly referred to as type 1, type 2 and type 3 universities in Iran. The median was used as a measure of central tendency of the scores. The search engines of AltaVista were adopted on 26 February 2010 to collect the data. According to the results, in terms of indexed pages, Shahid Baheshti of type 1, Guilan of type 2, and Shahrekord of type 3 universities had the best records. Regarding web links, medical universities of Iran, Kermanshah and Lorestan, from type 1, type 2 and type 3 universities had the best records and, in terms of impact factor, universities of Ahvaz [type 1], Zahedan [type 2], and Fessa [type 3] manifested the greatest influence. As the results imply, the universities are expected to pay more attention to webometric issues; they are also recommended to allocate more budget to enhance their web pages
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This study analyzed the qualitative and quantitative developments of medical informatics articles in Iran from 1987 to 2009, based on ISI Citation databases. The first phase of the analysis included date of publication, type of document, language of the article, source of publication, subject areas, and the countries involved in developing the articles. Citation indicators formed the second phase of investigation in this study. In the third phase, the citing articles were analyzed in terms of their date of publication, type of document, language, subject area, citation sources and the country where the citation had taken place. The publications, with some fluctuations, followed a rising trend until 2007, but after this date there was some decline in publishing such articles. Among 62 documented articles investigated, 58 were published in journals, and the remaining four were presented in conferences. The language of all 62 articles was English. Britain had the greatest contribution, i.e. 13 [21%] documents, in publishing such articles. Regarding their subject area, most of the articles, i.e. 28 [45%] documents, dealt with "health care sciences and health services". As for their source of publication, 7 [11.29%] articles had been published in the Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing Journal. The greatest number of citations belonged to 2005 while the greatest number of H-Index and citation average per year belonged to 2007. There were a total of 196 citations to 62 articles, out of 186 articles. 20% of all citing articles embarked upon self-citation. The overall average for referencing to each article was 3.16 and the H-Index of all Iranian medical informatics articles was 7. Most of the citing articles belonged to more recent years. The language of most citing articles was English. Most of the references to the articles first belonged to scholars from the United States, i.e. 41 [22%] times, and then to those from Iran, i.e. 40 [21.5%] times. The greatest number of citing articles [12 articles or 6.45%] were published in the journal of Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing. Generally speaking, the year 2007 seemed to mark a turning point in publishing the greatest number of medical informatics articles from Iran. The articles published this year showed some improvement in quality as well
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The indexed scientific publication in valid information databases like ISI is an important scale for rating universities. Publication of scientific productions in these databases increases accessability, resulting in greater citation. In this survey, the status of publishing and citing of the SBMU [Shahid Beheshti Medical University] articles from 1997 to 2007 has been studied. The findings are expected to be useful for SBMU schedules and policy making decisions in future. This is a descriptive scientometric survey of all the articles published by SBMU members in the citation indexes of ISI from 1998 to 2007. The findings have been reported, using descriptive statistics. A total of 1431 articles were investigated. According to the results, the rate of SBMU articles has increased considerably in the study period. Most articles have been published in "American journal of Gastroenterology" and"Journal of Endourology" [each with 35 articles, comprising 2.5% of the articles]. All of the articles were in English and most in the field of pharmacology and pharmacy. In 70% of the articles, SBMU researchers were the first author. Most rating citations belong to the articles published in 2006 while articles of 2003 have the highest rate of indexing. The citation diagram shows an increasing curve. The number of article publications and their citations has increased during 1997-2007 which may be an indicative of encouragements and supports provided for the researchers by the university