Comparing the Presence of Researchers of Medical Universities of Western Provinces of Iran on ResearchGate and Scopus

Ansari, Masoumeh, Fallah, Mohammad, Noruzi, Alireza and Rasolabadi, Masoud Comparing the Presence of Researchers of Medical Universities of Western Provinces of Iran on ResearchGate and Scopus. Webology, 2019, vol. 16, n. 2, pp. 257-274. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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The aim of the present study was to compare the presence of researchers of Medical Universities of Western Provinces of Iran (i.e., Kurdistan, Hamadan, Kermanshah, and Ilam) on ResearchGate and Scopus using altmetric approach. This research also aimed to identify the significant difference between the Scopus indicators and the altmetric indicators of ResearchGate. The statistical population of this research consists of the researchers from University of Medical Sciences in Kurdistan, Hamadan, Kermanshah and Ilam with indexed documents in Scopus and affiliated with ResearchGate that were compared and reviewed by the author's work on ResearchGate. According to Scopus, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences had the highest average number of documents, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences has the highest average h-index, and Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences had the highest average citation count. Based on the number of publications, Ilam University of Medical Sciences had the highest average, based on the ResearchGate Score (RG Score), Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences had the highest score and based on the following and followers indicators, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences received the highest score. Increasing the number of documents uploaded on ResearchGate will increase the citations in Scopus and, consequently, the h-index will increase.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Altmetrics, Citation analysis, ResearchGate, Scopus, Universities, Medical Sciences, Iran
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods
Depositing user: Dr. Alireza Noruzi
Date deposited: 19 Feb 2020 18:48
Last modified: 19 Feb 2020 18:48
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/39681

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