نشریه علم سنجی کاسپین
سال دوم شماره 2 (پاییز و زمستان 1394)

Nowadays, the websites have the important role in transferring and delivery the information. The aim of this study was to assess the websites of Northern Universities of Medical Sciences based on Webometrics criteria.
Material and This descriptive-survey study is applicable type. The present study was performed using one of the Webometrics methods, Linkage analysis method, and finally determined through the coordination of citations in Google Scholar as well as the amount of visibility and size of Medical universities website of the Northern region of the country.
Findings: Findings indicated that based on Webometrics database, Babol, Guilan, Golestan and Mazandaran Universities of Medical Sciences obtained the highest rank in presence index (1701), impact index (5083), free information delivery index (1234) and academic excellence indicator (2169), respectively.
We conclude that although the website of Northern Universities of Medical Sciences has got a positive growth in some indices of Webometrics in recent years, these universities’ status generally has not been acceptable at National and International levels. Increasing English pages, increasing link to these universities’ websites and the attention of the managers and those involved are necessary and inevitable to promote these universities’ websites.

Scientific journals can be considered as a symbol of scientific life of every science such as Human Sciences. According to the current state of the country, paying special attention to economic issues, especially the resistive economy among journals related to human sciences indicates direct or indirect interest in the subject. The aim of this study was to assess the publication of articles regarding resistive economy among Human Sciences Journals.
Material and This cross-sectional study was conducted on all Persian Human Sciences Journals using scientometric method during two years (2012-2013). Titles, abstracts and keywords of all articles were reviewed in terms of words such as economy, Islamic economy and resistive economy. The data were collected by means of a tailor-made data collection sheet and were analyzed using descriptive statistics and chi-square test (χ2).
Findings: The outcome extracted from 21353 articles of 486 journals published by Universities, faculties and research institutes (during 2012-2013) showed that the mentioned words were used in 703 scientific works (in 3.29% of articles). Twenty nine (nearly 0.1%) and 10 (0.04%) scientific works were related to Islamic economy and resistive economy, respectively. Journals of economics had the highest percent of related articles regarding economy and Islamic economy, and journals of politics had the highest percentage of articles about resistive economy.
According to the importance of scientific explanation of resistive economy in the current state of our country, the more role-playing of human sciences specialists, especially "economic's scientists" is necessary. Thus paying attention to encourage the lecturers and students to study and research on policies and purposes of resistive economy is strongly recommended.

Nowadays, social networks are the most important means of communication in the societies as well as in the world and they have a great reputation, so the use of virtual social networks among students is very essential. The aim of this study was to evaluate the reasons and motives of virtual social networks among students in Gonabad University of Medical Sciences.
Material and In this descriptive study, 277 students were randomly chosen from Gonabad University of Medical Sciences. They completed a reasercher-made questionnaire which its validity and reliability were obtained in earlier studies. Then the data were analyzed using SPSS software version 20.
Findings: The findings showed that 52% of students were members of these social networks. Their main motive and reason for joining these networks were to communicate with previous and current friends and to have fun.
More than half of the students are members of social networks. Students are not familiar with all of the effects of these social networks since they are recently emerged so performing more research on other aspects of their impact on the life and health of students is necessary.

One of the important ways to assess the status of utilizing sources used by students in writing dissertations, is citation analysis. The aim of this study was to evaluate rate of using information resources in Mazandaran and Shomal Universities by MA students majoring in physical education and compare two universities.
Material and The citation analysis method was used in this study and the population was 11814 counts of citations which were extracted from the sources and references of 123 master's dissertations at University of Mazandaran (63 copies) and University of Shomal (60 copies). Data were analyzed using SPSS software and Excel.
Findings: The results showed that the rate of citation to Latin sources was more than it to Persian sources in both universities. The rate of citation to Latin sources was higher in Mazandaran University (%81/26) than Shomal University (%50/15). The percentage of student's citation to articles in the University of Mazandaran (73/36%) and University of Shomal (51/37%) was higher than it to other sources. The t-test results indicated that there was a significant difference between two Universities in terms of the rate of citation to Latin and Persian sources, dissertations and articles.
The findings showed that students used different information-seeking patterns to write thesis. So, it was concluded that the academic orientation, college facilities and access to various sources had effect on how to write the citation.