 The Scholarly Communication of Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame in Humanities & Engineering: A Study of Late and Early Citation

Authors

Faculty member of Scientometrics Department, National Research Institute for Science Policy, Tehran,iran

Abstract

The science frontiers Hall of Fame members are highly impacted scholars in Iran thus it is supposed that their scholarly product are useful for national and International audiences In order to investigate their scholarly communication and the usage rate of their products this is to study the early and late citation to declare the visibility of a research as well as delays in citation which forms scholarly communicationObjective The purpose of the present study was to investigate the impact of the scientific productions of the of Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame in Humanities Engineering among the international scientific community a comparative study of the two early and late citation phenomena in the scientific production and the study of their citation status to determine the citation behavior of specialists in these areasThis was an applied study with a descriptive approach using scientometric indices The study population included all written outputs by selected scientists from the beginning up to the end of in Web of Science WOS and Scopus Data were collected from these two databases and analyzed using Excel softwareThe length of Sleep is different in scientific fields and less in WOS The citation status is less in humanities There are some products which still slept which are percent in humanities and in As for early citation comparing to the whole production engineering is about times more than humanities

Keywords