Study of Spelling Negligence of Iranian Author's Names in ISI Database

The recording of Persian names suffers from negligence and no rule is being followed in this regard. This paper was a descriptive-quantitative study, it also examined negligence recording of names of Iranian authors in the ISI database. In line with the study goals, the complete list of papers by Iranians during 2007 and 2008 in the Web of Science Database were extracted. Of other purpose of this research was to determine their gender and their way of spelling (consistently or negligently) were surveyed and each of the authors was dedicated a record. The results showed men's names were more negligently recorded compared with that of women.