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The co-authorship network contributes to sharing of knowledge and experience, increases efficiency, innovates, and develops scientific achievements. This study endeavors to identify the pattern of participation and evaluate the relationship between social influence and the scientific performance of authors in the co-authorship network in medical images. This descriptive study was done using both the approach of scientometrics and social network analysis. The search was implemented in the Core Collection Web of Science (WOS) in February 2021. The cases included 37,190 articles divided into the three-time periods from 1991-2000, 2001-2010, and 2011-2020. The stages of data extraction, matrix construction, and computation of the co-authorship network centrality metrics were performed through a software. The effect of scientific performance evaluation indicators on the measures of centrality (social influence) was examined by multivariate regression analysis. Patterns of participation of one to three authors were decreasing. The number of articles, the number of citations, the H index, and normalized citations of each author have a direct and significant relationship with rank centrality, distance centrality, and betweenness centrality, and inverse and significant relationship with closeness centrality. Centrality variables explain 27% of the changes in the number of articles, 21% of the changes in the H index variable, 0.2% of the changes in the average citation of each article, and 0.6% of the changes in the normalized citation variable, respectively. Considering the increase in researchers' tendency towards collaborative research, the use of centrality metrics and a combination of researchers' performance indicators in the field of medical images can provide a logical criterion for predicting and evaluating their performance while facilitating the identification of influential researchers.

The main purpose of the current research was to investigate the historical roots of health information seeking behavior filed using the new approach of reference publication year’s spectroscopy in the Scopus database from the beginning to the end of year 2021. The current research was conducted using citation analysis and the spectroscopic approach of publication year of sources (RPYS). The sampling method in the present study was census and 1414 documents were extracted from Scopus database in health information seeking behavior area. Data analysis was done using CRExplorer software program 7 book titles and 21 articles were the most co-cited, which shows the influence of articles in the formation of the historical roots of health information seeking behavior filed. This area was influenced by books in the fields of communication and psychology. But little by little, signs of works related to library and information science, health literacy, and research methodology were also observed in co-cited references. It can be predicted that the field of health information seeking behavior will take more influence from the field of health and its related theories in the coming years with the increase of publications, thus establishing its position as an emerging field and Regardless of the field of information-seeking behavior, it will gain more than before.

One of the scientometrics techniques and methods is the quantitative study of different sciences and drawing the scientific structure in different fields of science. The aim of this research is to Mapping the structure scientific of pharmaceutical sciences in the top 15 countries in the world during the covid-19 pandemic using Web Of Science The research was cross-sectional descriptive and was carried out using scientometric techniques. The research community included documents produced by 15 countries with the most scientific productions in the field of pharmaceutical sciences in 2021, whose number was 12,646 records in the science citation index. The drawing of the map of scientific structure is done by scientometrics software and is based on descriptive statistics. The most scientific production in the studied area belonged to Wang Y. The most articles in the field of pharmaceutical sciences were published in the journal FRONTIERS IN PHARMACOLOGY in 2021, and the country of Iran ranked 10th in scientific production among the 15 most productive countries in the field of pharmaceutical sciences. The clusters of the scientific structure of the field of pharmaceutical sciences in the present study included 6 clusters, the keywords of Covid-19 and vaccine were placed in the largest cluster. The keywords of covid-19 and vaccine were among the keywords of the largest cluster of the present study and drug studies on animals were in the second cluster. These two clusters show the speed and importance of pharmaceutical studies in the field of vaccine development and fighting against the Covid-19 pandemic. Also, keywords such as behavior and habits show the importance of how people deal with this pandemic

The elderly are at risk of disease and disability. Understanding health information seeking behavior and related factors, including individual factors, is very important in order to provide health care to the elderly. The aim of the present study was to determine the relationship between individual factors and the health information seeking behavior of the elderly in comprehensive health service centers in Isfahan city..

This descriptive-correlational study was performed on 580 elderly individuals covered by comprehensive health service centers in Isfahan, who were selected by one-stage cluster sampling and quota random sampling in the academic year 2017. A researcher-made questionnaire was employed to collect data for the variable behavior of elderly health information in disease control. The content and face validity of the questionnaire were confirmed by librarians and medical information and geriatrics specialists. The reliability of the questionnaire was calculated 0.87 using Cronbach's alpha. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.

The results revealed that there was a significant difference between men and women in the component of barriers to accessing health information. There was a direct relationship between age and some components of information seeking behavior. Besides, there was a significant relationship between marital status and type of job with some components of information seeking behavior.

Due to the desire of the elderly to obtain health information, it seems necessary to transfer information related to the elderly through portals and taking into account different personal characteristics and contexts affecting the information search process to play an effective role. Various personal characteristics such as gender, age, marital status, occupation, and access to information affect the health information seeking behavior of the elderly.

The results showed that there was a significant difference between men and women in the component of barriers to accessing health information. There was a direct relationship between age and some components of information seeking behavior. Also, a significant relationship was observed between marital status and type of job with some components of information seeking behavior.

Due to the desire of the elderly to obtain health information, it is necessary to transfer information related to the elderly through the portals used by them and taking into account different personal characteristics and contexts affecting the information search process in order to play an effective role. In increasing their awareness of disease control. Various personal characteristics such as gender, age, marital status, occupation in access to information and also affect the health information seeking behavior of the elderly.

The purpose of this research was to determine the relationship between Cyberchondria and information literacy among the students of Bushehr University of Medical Sciences in 2022. The method of implementation of this research was descriptive-analytical of cross-sectional type, and to collect information Yazdani information literacy questionnaires (2012) and Cyberchondria Severity Scale (CSS) were used. The findings showed a negative and significant relationship between Cyberchondria and students' information literacy; Also, the examination of the relationship between the five dimensions of information literacy and the Cyberchondria of students showed that the relationship between each of these dimensions with the level of illness is negative and significant. It was also a negative and significant relationship between the age variable and Cyberchondria of students. It means that as the age of the students increases, their Cyberchondria decrease. However, no significant relationship was observed between other demographic variables (educational level, marital status, and economic status) and the Cyberchondria of students. Among other findings of this research, we can mention the lack of significant difference between the average score of Cyberchondria between women and men. The results of this study showed an average to a high level of Cyberchondria among students. Considering the negative and significant relationship between information literacy and Cyberchondria, it is recommended to promote information literacy through educational workshops and includes this important topic in students' curricula.

Writing a Study Protocol in Health: Nature and Necessity (a commentary)AbstractNowadays, health researchers are interested in publishing study protocol. The study protocol is the leaven of a research project that explains the necessity of the research and the process of conducting the research in detail for other researchers. Also, the study protocol lacks findings, discussion, and conclusion sections. But the main question is whether any type of research can be presented as a study protocol or not? The most important goals of writing a study protocol are protection of innovations and important achievements of researchers, informing others about long-term research projects with large data, capital return of providers of research funds and prevention of republication. In addition, new topics, fast needs of society and researches with multiple phases are the priority for the publication of study protocol. However, other researches also should be published on this type of article. Therefore, it is recommended that large research projects, especially dissertations, be published first in study protocol. Of course, knowing more about this issue requires more investigations and searches.

At the moment, there is a risk of hijacking for reputable indexed journals. The cybercriminals search for journals whose websites are not easily reachable to researchers, then develop a fake website for that journals. They mimic the exact name and ISSN of the target journal, and by charging authors, publish papers without peer review. In a new advanced journal hijacking version, cybercriminals register expired domains of academic journals and launch their hijacked journals. To deal with journal hijacking, editors should update the details of their journals on scientific and citation bases. They also have to increase the visibility of their journal website in search engines by utilizing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques. The journals' websites also should be checked against web vulnerabilities and possible issues should be addressed. The problem of journal hijacking is critical, but less discussed. Lack of information about this issue, leads to increasing growth of victims.