Investigation and Comparison of the Use of Persian Scientific Journals Indexed in Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) in Scientific Production of the Mother Universities Researchers During 2001-2010

The present research investigates and compares the use of Persian scientific journals indexed in ISC in the scientific production of the mother universities researchers of Iran during 2001 to 2010. This is an applied research which uses citation analysis and descriptive documentary methods. The mother universities’ total number of scientific production in ISC has been 37988 documents during the given period. The Cochran formula was used for determination of the sample size. Based on this formula, the sample size of each university wan independently calculated. Then, the stratified sampling was used and the number of samples was determined by the ratio of documents in each university and each year. Consequently, the sample size of 2424 documents was obtained and the systematic random method was used to select the documents Data. Findings: Results indicated that 75.5% of the researchers had used ISC Persian scientific journals in their researches during 2001 to 2010. Isfahan University of Technology with 90.3% ranks first in this regard. Amir Kabir University of Technology (83.3%), Shahid Beheshti University (77.8%), Shiraz University (77.6%), Sharif University of Technology (75.3%), University of Tehran (77.1%), Tarbiat Modarres University (70%) and Iran University of Science and Technology (53.3%) have used ISC journals respectively. Findings of this research indicate that researchers often cite journals which are indexed in the citation databases. Moreover, the results of this study show that from all cited journals 57.9% are printed/electronic journals and 42.1% are printed journals. Therefore, it seems that the open access e-journals receive more citations from the users.